Episodes
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The Poseidon Project and The Six - Arthur Jones
Arthur Jones has been living and working in China for a fair while now, and he produces great films - not least of which are "The Poseidon Project" and "A Farewell Song", both now available on demand on Vimeo. "The Poseidon Project" looks at a six-year search for a sunken submarine, that started…
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Giovanni Bordone - Scabal Brand Ambassador
Founded in 1938 by Otto Hertz, Scabal was originally a cloth merchant and supplier of fabrics. His successor was JP Thissen, who was assisted by his son Gregor Thissen, the third generation of the family owned business. Through the aquisition of fabric brand Wainshiell, Scabal traces a history…
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Ghost Money - Andrew Nette
Cambodia, 1996, the long-running Khmer Rouge insurgency is fragmenting, competing factions of the unstable government scrambling to gain the upper hand. Missing in the chaos is businessmen Charles Avery. Hired to find him is Vietnamese Australian ex-cop Max Quinlan. But Avery has made dangerous...
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The Murder Boys - John B. Bliss
"It will stay with you for life boy. Either way you'll pay for it in your soul, but it's up to you if you want to pay for it with your time too." 1977, a scorching summer day in England. Teenage misfits Richard and Ali throw their cruel gang leader Blakes into a canal. Scared of the…
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Chef Alain Devahive Tolosa of El Bulli and Catalunya, Guest Chef at Zest at The Ritz-Carlton Tianjin.
A vibrant new chapter in the spirit of the avant-garde Spanish cuisine movement, the constant intellectual search for new flavors that takes place not only in gardens and landscapes around the world but in the laboratory of a group of innovative Spanish chefs, has just begun. This time, spreading…
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Aitor Olabegoya - Culinary Director At Migas, Beijing, and Guest Chef At Zest, At The Ritz-Carlton Tianjin.
Chef Aitor Olabegoya was the First prize winner at The International Competition for Young Chefs in Spain in 1999. He is also the most awarded Spanish Chef in Beijing. He leads the Migas kitchen team with his vast experience of having worked with many renown professionals in the industry…
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A Nose for Trouble: A Scanner & Max Mystery - Jonathan (Hans) Kemp
After responding to a richly scented plea for help Chicago PI Scanner Grant teams up with the charismatic Max Zwoelstra to travel to Hong Kong in search of Max’s adoptive father who has disappeared while selling cheese to the Chinese. Closer to home, a slew of abductions and the gruesome murder…
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Patrick Chew, Executive Pastry Chef at The Ritz-Carlton Tianjin
Born in Malaysia, Patrick Chew has had nearly two decades of experience working with pastry. Starting as instructor's aid at culinary school, he has gone on to work in hotels around the world, first as a baker, and then later specializing in chocolate and pastry work. Patrick currently works at…
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Pennies For Charon - Benedict J. Jones
Welcome to London - where the ferryman always has to be paid and the price is two shiny pennies over your cold dead eyes. When the son of the city’s leading barrister asks ex-con turned private eye Charlie “Bars” Constantinou to look for a missing call-girl, Charlie thinks he might finally have...
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A Farewell Song - Arthur Jones
Luo Shoucheng, Tu Weigang and Weng Zhenfa are celebrated musicians in China. They have played traditional instruments for 40 years or more and are about to take a leap into the unknown.They all retired last year, which means no more state-backed concerts and no more classes at the Shanghai Music...
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The Pallampur Predicament: A Superintendent Le Fanu Mystery - Brian Stoddart
The second Superindentent Le Fanu Mystery sees our intrepid British policeman on the trail of the murderers of an Indian Rajah. Under pressure from his superiors, pining for his lost love and allergic to the sight of blood, Le Fanu must navigate through a political mine-field of colonial intrigue...
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The Blind Rooster - Preston Lang
When con-man Ralph does a runner on the check at a shabby diner in an unfamiliar town, he doesn't expect it to catch up to him. But the waitress Arlene tracks him down and ropes him into a bizarre heist involving ugly family secrets, a violent stepfather, a well-secured safe, and most of all...
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A Madras Miasma - Brian Stoddart
Madras in the 1920s. The British are slowly losing the grip on the subcontinent. The end of the colonial enterprise is in sight and the city on India’s east coast is teeming with intrigue. A grisly murder takes place against the backdrop of political tension and Superintendent Le Fanu, a man of...
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The Takeover - Jonathan Dunne
Dublin’s underworld is run by the Doherty family, a clan of brothers harder than the Rock of Cashel and darker than a pint of Guinness. The head of the clan, Malcolm Doherty, has infiltrated all levels of public office and rules the city’s criminal landscape without mercy or compassion. Gerald...
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Chef Chisaki Iba - Sushi Mizuki at The Ritz-Carlton Kyoto
Mizuki is a Japanese restaurant, featuring four kinds of cuisine – featuring Kaiseki – Japanese traditional haute cuisine, Sushi, Tempura and Teppanyaki. This is a place where guests can enjoy artistic Japanese food, where each dish is born from the creative ideas of each chef. Mizuki is a world...
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Death Sentences - Michael Zimecki
Peter “Pop” Popovich is a 24-year-old unemployed glazier, anti-Semite and white supremacist who is pushed over the edge by his chaotic mother, his unresponsive lover, an uncaring stepfather and a right-wing hate machine that tells him liberals want to take away his guns and his liberty. While he...
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Spanking Pulp Press - James Newman
Pulp is back, in style, and James Newman is the man leading it to the public. Based in Bangkok, Spanking Pulp Press gives authors from around the world a chance to have their work read, all in exchange for a review - it's raw and alive, interaction on a visceral level... a mainline shot of junk…
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The Gwousz Affair - Gary Anderson
A genre-bender (think Animal Farm blended with The Big Sleep, spiced with a dash of Gulliver’s Travels and served with a side of Blade Runner), The Gwousz Affair is a dystopian-mystery novel in which the Western world is largely ruled by highly intelligent bovines. Yet at the heart of the novel...
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The Man With The Golden Mind - Tom Vater
The Second Detective Maier Mystery! Julia Rendel asks Maier to investigate the twenty-five year old murder of her father, an East German cultural attaché who was killed near a fabled CIA airbase in central Laos in 1976. But before the detective can set off, his client is kidnapped right out of…
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Salaryman Unbound - Ezra Erker
Iwasaki Shiro, a 46 year old salaryman in Tokyo is having a midlife crisis. Unexceptional in his IT job, he works in the shadow of his boss’s charisma. His children are embarrassed by his mediocrity and his wife rarely thinks of him as an individual. He has nothing to show for decades of…
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Skewered and other London Cruelties – Benedict J. Jones
Benedict Jones’ novella Skewered takes us onto the mean streets of South East London. An Asian business tycoon has been kidnapped and Charlie ‘Bars’ Constaniou, just out from a third stretch in prison and stuck working in his uncle’s kebab shop, is more than ready to hand over the ransom money…
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Ornato Antunes - Executive Chef, Ritz-Carlton Tianjin (Part 1 Of 2)
Chef Ornato Antunes is the Executive Chef of The Ritz-Carlton, Tianjin. He joined The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company in 1999 as Chef de Partie Banquet of the Hotel Arts, Barcelona, Spain. Prior to joining The Ritz-Carlton, Tianjin, Chef Ornato worked at other Ritz-Carlton properties, including Hotel...
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Ornato Antunes - Executive Chef, Ritz-Carlton Tianjin (Part 2 Of 2)
Chef Ornato Antunes is the Executive Chef of The Ritz-Carlton, Tianjin. He joined The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company in 1999 as Chef de Partie Banquet of the Hotel Arts, Barcelona, Spain. Prior to joining The Ritz-Carlton, Tianjin, Chef Ornato worked at other Ritz-Carlton properties, including Hotel...
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Poseidon: China's Secret Salvage of Britain's Lost Submarine - Steven Schwankert
In 1931, Britain’s most advanced submarine collided with a cargo ship off the coast of China and sank. Three hours later, six sailors surfaced, barely conscious. They were the first men ever to escape from a sunken submarine using a proto-scuba device. Their story hit headlines and went on to...
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Gaijin Cowgirl - Jame DiBiasio
Working Tokyo nightclubs is easy money for beautiful and troubled American Val Benson - until a wealthy client with a dark past and sinister hobbies reluctantly gives up a map to one of the greatest treasures lost in World War II. With yakuza, motorcycle gangs, rogue CIA, treasure hunters, pimps,...
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The Poseidon Project - Arthur Jones
In 1931, Britain’s most advanced submarine collided with a cargo ship off the coast of China and sank. Three hours later, six sailors surfaced, barely conscious. They were the first men ever to escape from a sunken submarine using a proto-scuba device. Their story hit headlines and went on to...
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Test Transmission
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Wil Anderson - Gruen Planet Host and Australian Stand Up Comedian.
Wil is a stand up first and foremost, touring Australia and the world at every opportunity, performing more than a hundred shows a year. His stand up is a densely written, high-speed ride though one of the most wonderful comedic imaginations in the country. Politics, pop and the banal come…
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Doug Stanhope.
Why did I do this interview? That's a good question... I did it because I wanted to. Because I like Doug Stanhope, and I want to introduce him to other people. Doug Stanhope is a stand-up comic. Has been since 1990. His material ranges from true-life graphic perversion to volatile social…
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