4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:00.0 | In 2008, 23-year-old Norwegian students Martina Vick Magnussen was killed in an apartment near Mayfair. |
0:09.0 | Hours after her death, the only suspect in the case fled the UK to Yemen. |
0:14.0 | He's never been questioned by the police. |
0:16.0 | I'm Noel El-Makafi and I made a promise to Martina's family 15 years ago to find out what happened. |
0:23.0 | Murder in Mayfair is the new mini-series right here in the documentary. |
0:28.0 | Several episodes are available now. |
0:35.0 | Hello! We're warming up our vocal cords for this week's documentary in the studio, |
0:40.0 | the series that meets some of the world's most creative people and finds out how they work and think. |
0:45.0 | In this episode, we're following one of the fastest rising theatre stars in the UK, |
0:50.0 | the acclaimed director, Tinnika Craig, or Tinnu as she likes to be called, |
0:55.0 | as she prepares for one of her most challenging projects to date, |
0:58.0 | debuting the US Opera Blue at London's Coliseum with the English National Opera. |
1:04.0 | Tinnu has a reputation for directing theatre that has a social message and a heart at its core. |
1:10.0 | She's been applauded for her version of Jitni, August Wilson's play about gentrification in 1970s America, |
1:16.0 | and for her musical interpretation of Alice Walker's The Color Purple, |
1:20.0 | which was described as an exuberant celebration of community and female empowerment, |
1:25.0 | opening tick littering five star reviews. |
1:32.0 | But this is the first time in her career that Tinnu has ever attempted an opera, |
1:36.0 | let alone a contemporary one, and one that covers police brutality and violence in America. |
1:41.0 | It feels like quite a big responsibility. |
1:44.0 | It feels like we're representing quite underrepresented communities |
1:48.0 | and so we want to do that in a way that feels respectful and safe and kind and realistic. |
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