Arts & Music

Virtuoso violinist Tianwa Yang tells Kate Whitehead about her serendipitous start in music, the intense demands of her Beijing teachers, and learning to enjoy life while studying in Germany, her home now.

Photographer Basil Pao was allowed unfettered access during the filming of The Last Emperor. Here is a selection of photos from his new book about the making of the epic movie.

‘Capturing Life: The Photography of Willy Ronis’, a Hong Kong exhibition, showcases the work of the late French humanist photographer, who was known for capturing the poetry of everyday life.

Popular, cynical Dutch detective ‘Piet’ Van der Valk, played by Marc Warren, returns for the third season of Van der Valk, and is joined by new recruit Sergeant Citra Li, played by Django Chan-Reeves.

Adventurer-presenter Ben Fogle goes from California to the Caribbean to Scotland in Ben Fogle’s Lost Worlds on BBC Earth, while nothing is what it seems in Netflix K-drama Destined With You.

Phil Rosenthal, best known for the Netflix food show Somebody Feed Phil and for creating comedy Everybody Loves Raymond, shares the places he is most looking forward to eat at when he revisits Hong Kong.

The Khmer Magic Music Bus takes masters of traditional Cambodian instruments and songs to help reconnect locals with their national identity and heal a land still recovering from genocide.

BBC Earth’s Changing Planet II examines how conservation in six geographical areas of concern is helping to improve their delicate ecosystems, while a Seoul detective is demoted to a rural town in Behind Your Touch.

The third and final season of BBC First series Guilt sees Mark Bonnar’s disbarred lawyer Max McCall return from the US to Edinburgh – shown at its most charmless – to face off against an old nemesis.

The third season of Apple TV+ comedy drama series Physical sees successful fitness guru Sheila Rubin (played by Rose Byrne) on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

In 1971, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Beijing sent a film of Chinese ballet The Red Detachment of Women to the Venice International Film Festival, from where it became a hit with Western movie-goers.

Back to the Future stars Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd and a time-travelling car. The DeLorean sports car so impressed a young Tommy Fung it has inspired his work as photographic artist Surreal HK.

Lorna Watson is an investigative nun once more in Father Brown spin-off Sister Boniface Mysteries on BBC First, while Netflix K-drama The Uncanny Counter returns with more supernatural showdowns.

Photographer Gretchen So set out to tell positive stories about Hong Kong’s foreign domestic helpers, snapping them dressed up, dancing together, sharing food and learning skills on their day off.

Joanna Lumley is back on the road again on BBC Earth, this time following the ancient East-West spice trade route, while season two of Netflix K-drama D.P. returns for more Korean military service bullying drama.

Years of masking during the Covid pandemic have left some children in Hong Kong lacking in confidence. A drama workshop operator aims to change that, and is offering free trials.