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“I’m Just Here to Buy Soy Sauce” follows two couples – a pair of cut-throat real estate agents vying for the spotlight as they attempt to sell their latest million-pound property to a Chinese tycoon and a young couple, whose attempt to buy their first home together has left them picking up the pieces of their relationship. With the housing crisis reaching breaking point, this project aims to ensure that the conversation is heard from both sides, reclaiming the debate about the state of housing in our capital. After all – home is where the hurt is. CAST Claire-Marie Hall as CASSANDRA/CHARMAINE David East as FRASER/FREDDIE ***PLEASE DONATE What you can at PAYPAL.ME/JINGANYOUNG ALL MONIES WILL GO TO THE ARTISTS DURING THIS PANDEMIC** You can purchase the play-text from Oberon Books here: https://www.oberonbooks.com/foreign-goods-a-selection-of-writing-by-british-east-asian-artists.html

Episode 4 features Melanie Williams from the University of East Anglia. We discuss an underrated 1960s gem, Wolf Rilla's the World Ten Times Over (1963)which stars Sylvia Syms as a Soho nightclub hostess. The BFI describes it: "Though never criminalised, lesbianism was verboten on screen in the early 1960s. Wolf Rilla’s rich, acerbic feature quietly subverted prevailing censorship, hinting at British cinema’s first lesbian relationship. Nightclub hostesses Ginnie (June Ritchie) and Billa (Sylvia Syms) share a flat and an increasing despair at the men in their lives. Syms’ moving, melancholic performance cuts through the compromises to signal Billa’s love for the fragile Ginnie." The beautiful soundtrack of the film was composed by Edwin Astley. Read more on the wonderful 1960s British Cinema Project: https://60sbritishcinema.wordpress.com/ Melanie Williams can be found @BritFilmMelanie Please remember to subscribe and follow on twitter @sohoonscreen

An extended episode of Soho Bites with Henry K Miller who discusses Stephen Dwoskin's 1972 'Dyn Amo', an experimental adaptation of a play which debuted at the Soho Theatre and was filmed in a make-shift studio in Soho. Miller is a researcher on the Stephen Dwoskin Project at the University of Reading. He is also a regular contributor to Sight and Sound, and the editor of The Essential Raymond Durgnat. Follow Henry on Twitter @henrykmiller Please remember to subscribe and to follow @sohoonscreen

Episode 2 of #SohoBites, a #SohoonScreen Podcast. Researching London's Soho in British film. Episode 2 invited Professor of Film Professor Nathan Abrams of Bangor University to talk about The Small World of Sammy Lee (Ken Hughes, 1963). We discussed the importance of studying films in the British-Jewish context and the absence of defining 'Sammy Lee' (part of my own research)as a British Jewish / Soho immigrant film. Nathan will be presenting at several events for #JewishHistoryMonth (Book here: https://www.jewishhistories.com/) and his next book "Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film" will be published this summer, pre-order now! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/eyes-wide-shut-9780190678036?cc=gb&lang=en& Please remember to subscribe and to follow @sohoonscreen

First episode of #SohoBites, a #SohoonScreen Podcast. Researching London's Soho in British film. Episode 1 features chief film critic for the Guardian Peter Bradshaw to discuss Jules Dassin’s 1950 film noir Night and the City, including some other fascinating Soho stories... Please remember to subscribe and to follow @sohoonscreen