Alternate World War I

The First World War : The Peoples Story draws on an extraordinary and little known archive of two hundred interviews with the last survivors

This is the story of two wars fought at the same time on opposite ends of the globe, often mislabeled as a single war: The Second World War.

"Making A New World" is a 19 track song cycle about the after-effects of the First World War. But this is not an album about war and it is not, in any traditional sense, an album about remembrance. There are songs here about air traffic control and gender reassignment surgery. There are songs about Tiananmen Square and about ultrasound. There are even songs about Becontree Housing Estate and about sanitary towels. The songs grew from a project the band undertook for the Imperial War Museum and were first performed at their sites in Sanford and London in January 2019. The starting point was a document from the IWM collection; an image, from a 1919 publication on munitions by the US War Department, made using "sound ranging", a technique that utilized an array of transducers to capture the vibrations of gunfire at the front.

One of just a few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before World War II, this film was produced to raise funds for the Vladimir Medem Sanatorium which stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty.