3 episodes
Parklife vtski
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- Society & Culture
Parklife listens to the people that make the parks we visit what they are.
Series 1 visits a park in Hanoi, Vietnam. It has been used as a dump, outlived a name change to honour Vladimir Lenin & survived a major redevelopment scam.
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Ep3: The lovers, the prostitute, the chess player (Vietnam)
The coolness and cover of night entices more personalities to Hanoi’s old Lenin Park.
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Ep2: The historian, the fisherman, the keep-fit ladies (Vietnam)
The afternoon brings new faces to the city park. Communism and the park’s peculiar providence are far from their minds.
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Ep1: The jogger, the architect, the elderly martial artist (Vietnam)
On a busy morning in a central Hanoi park, we follow the characters that tread its paths.
Once used as a dump, the park has outlived a name change to honour Vladimir Lenin and survived a major redevelopment scam.
Today’s park-goers reveal their lives in an evolving one-party state.