The Irishman: in conversation

(2019)

Lin-Manuel Miranda and others set hip-hop and Broadway on fire in The Hamilton Mixtape.

In the shadow of the Swedish construction industry, Ukrainian Serhii is fighting side by side with his union to get his unpaid wages.

This moving documentary examines the disturbing case of a couple who tortured and murdered their French nanny and then burnt her body in the back garden of their south west London home.

On the hunt for other solar systems, scientists have discovered an Earth-sized planet orbiting the star nearest to our Sun, Proxima Centauri. It's an important test of whether we are alone in the universe. Stephen Hawking and others are calling for a mission to search for extraterrestrial life.

The sound of the streets of Teheran are transformed in to forbidden beats, people sing and young women and men rhyme their inner feelings. They tell us about a society that rejects them, streets belonging to the government and about a vision of a utopia within creativity.

A group of asylum seekers in Dublin pitch their tents on Sandwith Street, around the corner from the immigration office. This protest camp is a reaction to the decision of the Irish government to deny accommodation to 1400 asylum applicants. Camp residents Sami, Hasiballah and Simon show us around the little village they call home: this is where they eat, this is where they paint banners, and here are flowers planted in a pot.

In 1952, London was engulfed in the Great Smog. As a result of industrialisation, a leaden fog settled over the entire city. The archive images from this period become letters from a desolate future.