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  • Location: Australia, Sydney

The Husband’s Secret

2000s: Imagine if you found a letter you were not supposed to open? Well that made us want to read it! The setting is not…

  • 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: Brazil

If I Close My Eyes Now

1960s – A journey to Brazil  via its troubled history and its emergence as a new democracy with two young boys finding their way as…

  • Location: Edinburgh

Exit Music (Rebus 17)

2006: Is Rebus retiring? Not if the Russians have anything to do with it…

  • 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

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A Person is a Prayer

2000s: A family’s story of migration from Kenya and India to England

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