Koktail Conversations: Recent Episodes
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With the melting of the Arctic ice cap, polar bears are finding it increasingly challenging to raise cubs and are unlikely to survive the ongoing warming of the planet. This is the view of professor Dr. Suchana "Apple" Chavanich, Thailand’s foremost marine biologist and the only Thai woman to have visited and worked on the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps.
Dr. Apple was the first guest recently in the Future-List dinner talk series. Before the talk, she spoke on a number of critical issues, including global warming and marine degradation, with Koktail Conversations co-host Nigel Oakins.
As the Banyan Tree Bangkok celebrated their 25th anniversary earlier this month, Koktail's Nigel Oakins and Mika Apichatsakol headed to the hotel's legendary rooftop bar, Vertigo, for some drinks and to catch up about the latest issue of Koktail Magazine, the "Creativity and Innovation" issue.
In the 6th episode of #KoktailConversations, Koktail founder Nigel Oakins met up with Cindy Bishop to enjoy an early pre-dinner margarita at The District Restaurant at The Marriott Hotel on Sukhumvit Soi 57. As the restaurant welcomed its first guests of the evening Cindy did not hold back on her thoughts across a wide range of meaty topics, including women’s empowerment, gender equality, media responsibility, sex education for children and the new world of digital art and NFT drops for charity. #KoktailMagazine
Koktail's Nigel Oakins and Mika Apichatsakol discuss Koktail Magazine Issue 2, The Ikigai Issue, over some 'G&G's on the tropical grounds of Blue Parrot restaurant
For episode four of our podcast series, Nigel Oakins ventured to the outskirts of Bangkok to meet with Bill Bensley at his beautiful “Baan Botanica” home, learning about the connection between curiosity and creativity.
Available on YouTube and Spotify, the fourth episode of Koktail Conversations is now out. In it, Koktail founder Nigel Oakins sits down for a wide-ranging discussion on the importance of “sensible sustainable solutions” when it comes to architecture, the re-purposing of artefacts into modern design and the incredible journey that is Bill Bensley’s career to date.
For episode three of our podcast series, we visited the House on Sathorn to have a cocktail with our editor in chief Mika Apichatsakol and Phillip Jablon, an advocate for independent movie theatres, who has documented some 300 theatres and counting in Thailand, Myanmar and Laos, in hopes of preventing their disappearance altogether.
Available on YouTube and Spotify, the third episode of Koktail Conversations is now out.
For episode two of our podcast 'Koktail Conversations', Nigel Oakins ventured out to the 61st floor of lebua Hotels and Resorts to meet with CEO Deepak Ohri to sip a Bellini and get the low down on “emotive expression”.
Available on YouTube and Spotify, the second episode of Koktail Conversations is now out. In it, Koktail founder Nigel Oakins sits down for a wide-ranging discussion on (among other things)Thailand’s place as a global gourmet destination, the rights and wrongs of restaurant awards and why emotive expression is a thing when it comes to marketing anything.
Koktail's Editor in Chief Mika Apichatsakol and Founder Nigel Oakins wind down over a cocktail (or two) and present the first issue of Koktail's Magazine.