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CGTN EUROPE
This Way Forward
CGTN EUROPE
News Commentary
Society & Culture
English
In this documentary series, we take look at a variety of challenges facing Europe today. What ideas are out there and which solutions should we implement to enrich our common future?
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10
14 February 2023
Bridge Builders: Zoë Reed - a bridge between hearts
Zoë Reed’s English mother Susan met her Chinese father KCSun at college in the late 1940s. He had been brought over as the first evermature Chinese student funded by British United Aid to China; she wasone of only three women – from the cohort of 103. “She had a pretty good choice of which young man to fall in love with and told me there was a chap from Iceland she quite liked,” smiles Zoë. “But...
29 min
14 February 2023
Bridge Builders: Zi Lan Liao - preserving Chinese heritage with music
Zi Lan Liao is one of the leading exponents of Chinese music. Her busy career on the international concert circuit has resulted in her being the most widely heard and best appreciated performer on the gu zheng worldwide. Her work includes Oscar-winning scores and modern fusion music – but her real passion is passing on her musical heritage to the British Chinese children of the Pagoda Arts Centre...
30 min
13 January 2023
3. The Secret Betrayal: Truth and Justice
In this series of podcasts, the story of how a brutal policy of forced repatriation caused thousands of Chinese men to disappear from Liverpool at the end of World War II. This policy, orchestrated by the British government, would leave families traumatized and the community broken.The deportations were shrouded in secrecy for decades, until declassification of Home Office files entitled...
29 min
13 January 2023
1. The Secret Betrayal: From Heroes to Villains
In this series of podcasts, the story of how a brutal policy of forced repatriation caused thousands of Chinese men to disappear from Liverpool at the end of World War II. This policy, orchestrated by the British government, would leave families traumatised and the community broken.In 1866, shipping group Alfred Holt & Company was founded in Liverpool. It quickly became one of the UK’s...
30 min
13 January 2023
2. The Secret Betrayal: Silence and Destitution
In this series of podcasts, the story of how a brutal policy of forced repatriation caused thousands of Chinese men to disappear from Liverpool at the end of World War II. This policy, orchestrated by the British government, would leave families traumatized and the community broken.During World War II, one in seven merchant seamen in the UK was Chinese. When the war was over, many returned to the...
28 min
03 October 2022
Bridge Builders: The Guo family - from busking to Hollywood to internet stardom
In this podcast, we meet the Guo family – presented by son and London-based vlogger Toto, who describes himself as "a child of two heritages'. His father Guo Yi grew up in a musical family in China and is a renowned sheng musician and his British mother Manda is a professional garden designer. As Toto says, "Yuanfen" or fate brought his parents together in the 1980s when Manda spotted Yi busking...
29 min
03 October 2022
Bridge Builders: Frances Wood - librarian of treasures
Frances Wood was born into a family of linguists – people who loved studying foreign languages. In her childhood and teens she mastered French and Spanish, so by the time she was thinking about what she wanted to study at university she was looking for a new challenge. She chose Chinese at Cambridge and in 1971 following her graduation, she was able to visit China with the first British youth...
28 min
03 October 2022
Bridge Builders: Stephen Perry - the icebreaking family
Seventy years ago, a small group of British businessmen and women traveled to China to unlock opportunities between the countries – they became known as the icebreakers. Jack Perry was one of the original Icebreakers. Growing up the son of poor Jewish immigrants in the devastating years before World War II, he was inspired to help China rebuild itself and fight poverty by encouraging...
29 min
03 October 2022
Bridge Builders: Michael Wood - historian of the people
For more than 40 years, Michael Wood has brought history alive for viewers and readers all over the world. His recent Story of China films and documentary on Chinese poet Du Fu have charmed Chinese and international audiences alike – making him a household name in China. Michael Wood’s books and TV documentaries span many different periods of the past – from the Greek Empire of Alexander the...
29 min
03 October 2022
Bridge Builders: Alex Hua Tian - a 'cross-country' rider
When Alex Hua Tian competed in the Beijing Olympics in 2008, he became the first ever Chinese eventing rider in Olympic history and also the youngest person to compete in his chosen field at the Games. Since then, Hua Tian has also represented China at both the Rio and Tokyo Olympics and was awarded both a bronze and a silver medal at two different Asian Games. In this podcast, Hua Tian talks...
29 min