- In Public House, an award-winning artist and academic Sarah Turner explores the centrality of pubs and social spaces to communal narrative and memory. In 2012, the Ivy House pub in Peckham was sold to property developers as part of the ongoing gentrification of south London. However, local residents opposed it, registe…
- A young prostitute falls in love with with a man from a respectable house and the two move in together. But on hearing the objections to this situation raised by his family, the woman makes up her mind to leave him.
- A “double bill” of two Russian operatic masterpieces. Legendary bass Evgeny Nesterenko stars in the title role of Aleko (1892), an early work of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), written the composer was still a student at the Moscow Conser…
- The Carnival in Rio has catapulted Brazilian samba to prominence around the world as the ultimate mix of exuberance, sensuality and tradition. 'The Spirit of Samba' shows how much Brazilian music has profoundly influenced all kinds of musicians around the world, especially jazz artists. Along with the samba and bossa n…
- Through the neon-lit side streets and sprawling markets of Hong Kong, an incredible story unfolds of loyalty and betrayal. A brutal war between gangs, a young brother and sister are kidnapped and their parents brutally murdered. Yuan becomes a fighter in Bangkok's back streets whilst Maggie is trained from childhood as…
