BANGKOK EDGE IDEAS FESTIVAL

Interview on the launch of Very Bangkok at the BangkokEdge ideas Festival on 01 February 2020. Author Philip Cornwel-Smith is interviewed by
Marc Pachter, the Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution.

This is the best overview on video of what the book’s about, and why it is so different from other books and coverage of the Thai capital.

This interview was conducted during the book launch at the BangkokEdge ideas festival in Bangkok, Thailand. The interviewer was the book’s consultant editor Marc Pachter, Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution. He was director of the Museum of American History and twice the director of the National Portrait Gallery of America. Pachter gave a TED Talk about his interview technique, which he developed for the Living Portraits Series that he created for the Smithsonian Institution.