Irresistable Fairy Tale

Liverpool footballer Mo Salah shot to world stardom in one stellar season, with his goals carrying the club to the brink of European glory in the Champions League final against Real Madrid this Saturday. This compelling documentary charts Salah's rise from humble origins in Egypt to being voted best player in England and a candidate for the Ballon d'Or prize, which is awarded to the world's top player each year. Featuring all of Salah's goals from this year's dramatic Champions League campaign so far, plus action from his time in Italy, Switzerland and his native Egypt, this programme highlights Salah's mesmeric skills, with in-depth contributions from football legends Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Ian Rush, Steve McManaman and Gary Lineker.

When a bloodied and incoherent Jun (Wang Baoqiang) confesses to five murders that have not occurred, the police assume that he's mentally unstable and ignore his claims. Police detective Han (Lau Ching-wan) is investigating a series of gruesome murders, but …

There are two words for truth in Russian: Pravda for objective truth and Ishtina for transcendental truth, that what you know but cannot explain. While Helena’s previous solo albums - with music from Janacek and Scriabin - were each in their own way quite personal to her, this time she wanted more Ishtina than Pravda. She wanted a story that was not just personal for her but representative of her. And Helena’s personal story is one of multitudes. Of departures and forgetting, discovery and loss, of glimmers of understanding, and feelings of coherence in oceans of confusing false certainties.

Fairy Tale: A True Story is the 1997 soundtrack to the film directed by Charles Sturridge, composed by Zbigniew Preisner. This was released by Icon/Atlantic.

The film speaks about universal themes of love, hate and search for love. The portrait of three women represents these three states. Tanya Neubivko has never been in love but optimistically is searing for it. Her unfortunate and even dangerous encounters with strangers on dates almost got her killed. Rita is happily engaged and planning a wedding after a routine medical check-up. Nadya is a very unhappy doctor who hates her husband and finds relief in alcohol. The story takes place in a surreal hospital with the leaking roof and hollow walls and constantly smoking doctors, where Rita is destined to die.