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  • Location: Sumatra

Jaipong Dancer

1950s: Yahyu, a young Javanese dancer, runs away from a forced marriage and becomes unwittingly involved in the violent struggle for 1950’s Sumatra’s independence from…

  • Location: Beijing (Peking)

A Dance with a Dragon

1900s –  A fascinating look at the the expat community in Peking between the end of the Ching Dynasty and Mao’s communist revolution

  • Location: Prague

The Widow Killer

WW2 – In the final days of the Third Reich, a serial killer is stalking the streets of Prague…

  • Location: Denmark, Copenhagen

Music and Silence

1620s – Music and intrigue come to 17th Century Denmark and to the royal court

  • Location: Egypt, London

Shadows on the Nile

1930s: A Egyptian trail in the search for a girl’s missing brother

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The Hallmarked Man

2025: A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop.

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