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- Rio de Janeiro. September, 2008. Three men stalk the gloomy back-alleys of the city's notorious slums. Spiderman, a 28-year-old drug lord, embarks on a routine patrol through the shadowy streets of Coréia, the sprawling slum he controls. Inspector Leonardo Torres, a muscle-bound operative from Rio's drug squad, inches through the alleys of another shantytown, shots ringing out around him. And Pastor Dione, an evangelical preacher intent on ending Rio's drug conflict, trawls the slums for lost souls. With unprecedented access to some of Rio's most wanted men, Dancing with the Devil in the City of God tells the story of Rio's drug war through the eyes of three men locked into one of the bloodiest urban conflicts on earth.
- This is the story of Spalding Gray and his attempt to write a novel. It is a first person account about writing and living, and dealing with success while trying to be successful.
- A mixture of sitcom and stand up set backstage at the Crumpsall Palladium. Theatre owner Henry is assisted by compere and stage manager Frank and kiosk attendant Jenny
- A mixture of sitcom and stand-up comedy. Compere Frank and kiosk attendant Jenny organise things backstage, with frequent breaks for "guest acts".
- Four days before he was due to appear in "Hamlet" at Stratford upon Avon, 27 year old South African actor Brett Goldin was brutally murdered in Cape Town, shot in the back of the head, alongside his childhood friend Richard Bloom.
- Oscar winning documentary director and Shakespearean actor Sir Antony Sher, both ex South Africans, investigate the murder in Cape Town of up-and-coming actor, Brett Goldin, and discover that 13 years after the arrival of democracy in South Africa, the country of their birth is suffering one of the highest murder rates in the world with 50 people a day being killed. What is going on in South Africa and is the rainbow nation which brought so much hope to the world just a few years ago, under threat?