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  • Location: Java, Malaysia (Malaya), Singapore, Sumatra, Belitung

The Family of Sir Stamford Raffles

1781 – 1826: The people behind Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore and governor of Java

  • Location: Singapore, Malaysia (Malaya)

How We Disappeared

1946: Japanese troops invade Malaysia and Singapore and lives are changed for ever.

  • Location: Malaya, Malacca

The Ghost Bride

1890s: A story of the Chinese afterlife and legends of the ‘ghost world’

  • Location: Kuala Lumpur

The Concubine’s Child

1930s: A girl of 16 is married off to a rich old man who desperately wants an heir

  • Location: Malaysia, (Malaya)

The Night Tiger

1930s: They say a tiger that devours too many humans can take the form of a man and walk amongst us…

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Dark Island

2000s: Midwinter in Orkney. Six hours of daylight. A race against time to catch a killer.

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