Episode 9: National Day
First aired: Thursday, August 11, 2005, 8:30 pm
Episode summary by Singapore TV
NATIONAL DAY PARADE - The changing face of the National Day Parade from the military precision to the party atmosphere of today is captured in this story of a people and system that's now more relaxed, open and confident.
NATIONAL DAY SONGS - Paralleling the story of national day parades is the story of the changing rhythms of our national songs. Kids in schools once learnt to sing "Planting Rice, but to reach an increasingly sophisticated population, an explosion of songs with more contemporary themes and arrangements hit the airwaves in the 1980s.
THE SEARCH FOR A SINGAPORE ICON - For forty years, Singapore has searched and tried to create the definitive Singapore icon. We've had the merlion, the Singapore girl, the national flower that hardly ever blooms and more recently the "Singapore lion dance". Symbolising the search for the definitive Singapore identity, this story about icons is cast against the accompanying debate - is there one Singapore identity or is our identity better captured in our diversity?
by MediaCorp
NATIONAL DAY SONGS - Paralleling the story of national day parades is the story of the changing rhythms of our national songs. Kids in schools once learnt to sing "Planting Rice, but to reach an increasingly sophisticated population, an explosion of songs with more contemporary themes and arrangements hit the airwaves in the 1980s.
THE SEARCH FOR A SINGAPORE ICON - For forty years, Singapore has searched and tried to create the definitive Singapore icon. We've had the merlion, the Singapore girl, the national flower that hardly ever blooms and more recently the "Singapore lion dance". Symbolising the search for the definitive Singapore identity, this story about icons is cast against the accompanying debate - is there one Singapore identity or is our identity better captured in our diversity?
by MediaCorp
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