The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul.

Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.

The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.

There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful.

The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

For a first year, we were pleasantly surprised. I think it's going to be a tremendous showing.