In 1996 Delhi, globalization shuts down Shiri's family business and due to insurmountable pressure, her husband leaves home. Left alone and penniless with her kids, she flouts all social norms to become a stage performing magician. In an era when everyone believed that women can’t stand on their own, she did.
Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). 12-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learnt a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to take it lying down... especially since it's Halloween tomorrow.
Moscow. Denis Viktorovich, his six-year-old grandson Denis, is brought to the old resident of the house on Karetny. Grandfather Denis tells stories to his grandson every day about his age, who lived in a completely different era. Denis's grandfather's stories become a portal to his carefree Soviet childhood in one of the Moscow courtyards. Stories come to life, and grandson Denis embarks on a journey into the past. It turns out that at any time, children have a lot in common — curiosity, spontaneity, immense love and interest in how this world works.
Filmed on location in 1997 at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, the show was a six-part BBC documentary, which followed the day-to-day running of the park. It was mainly focused on the rides and the park managers, Jim Rowland and Keith Allen. The film crews also spoke to Geoffrey Thompson and Amanda Thompson, the director and producer of Stageworks Worldwide Productions (which directs, produces and choreographs the shows within the park.)
In this 13-part history series, presenter Lisa Wade takes us back to World War II. From the occupation to the liberation, from the persecution of Jews to the NSB (Dutch Nazi Party), from the bombing of Rotterdam to the war in the Dutch East Indies.