Women's Talk hits the Lao airwaves
The ‘Women's Talk' entertainment programme, which has been airing on Lao National Television for the past two months, is now asking for viewer feedback to improve the show's quality. The 30-minute show, which features four young female presenters, broadcasts every weekend from 10:15-11:45am on the Lao National Television channel.
The show is centered on social topics for women, such as beauty secrets and healthy eating, and the programme is separated into three parts – ‘Life Updates', ‘ Question Time' and ‘Special Secrets'... more
During the ‘Update' section, presenters discuss local and international issues, followed by ‘Question Time', featuring interviews with special guests such as singers and other leading women talking about their lives, their ideas and any tips they have to share with other women.
The final part of the show, ‘Special Secrets', talks about strategies and secrets for life in women's health and beauty, as well as good attitudes and manners in everyday life.
Last week, Vientiane Times was able to interview the presenters of the show - Dalivan Soudachan (Peggy), Southida Sisoudachan (Dada), Chanthala Saythasavanh (Anny) and Manila Souvandouand (Kai).
Can you explain about your entertainment backgrounds?
Peggy: I won the Miss Popular Vote title for the Apone Lao contest last year, and was a model for a calendar, and I've done some presenting for tigo.
Anny: I'm a singer for music group LOG, and I also used to be involved with presenting events like Miss Lao-ITECC last year.
Dada: I've participated in different beauty contests like the one at the National University of Laos in 2006, and have joined many other activities, like the Fomost Star Challenge in 2005. I've also been a presenter for Star Phone and some other shows.
Kai: At the moment I'm singing with Over Dance, but I'm the only girl in the group. I have also had the chance to work as a presenter at different promotions and modeling events, which has been a good experience.
How is presenting ‘Women's Talk' different from other work?
Peggy: It is quite different to my previous jobs because ‘Women's Talk' is for television, which means I need to pay more attention to my presentation. Television involves a lot more detail and we need to find a lot more information and practise more to make it work well.
During the programme we try to be natural, and you can easily make mistakes, but if you do something wrong you can just laugh, because it doesn't really matter, as our production team can cut it and we will do the scene again.
Dada: I find this job quite hard because I am used to just posing for photographs and standing around for beauty contests. I didn't need to speak before and haven't had much experience with this, so I need to try and be more careful with my acting and speaking. We have to talk and talk, but also concentrate on getting across useful information to our viewers. I feel I'm quite different from Peggy, Kai and Anny, because you can tell they have more experience on the stage, but that this is really a first time for me. But I'm trying my best to improve as much as possible.
Anny: My mother is really beautiful. She has some secrets for make-up and beauty which keep her young, so I ask her for advice for myself. When I had the chance to go on television I told my mother's secrets to the viewers so that they could be more beautiful as well. At the same time, our team's producers also find information for the show from the Internet and some magazines and newspapers. I love this show so much because I can share with other women all my life-long secrets that everyone can use, and I can learn from this at the same time. I don't find it difficult, I can just prepare myself well, then talk and talk, and there you have it!
Kai: This programme is a great challenge for me, even though I have done a little presenting before, and recoding too, going into the TV studio is different from the recording studio. But I think I have taken on some valuable lessons about what works and what doesn't for listeners.
By Viengsavanh Phengphachan
vientianetimes
