Bangkok--12 Dec--Image Impact
Program Title: End of Empire
Telecast date: Sunday, December 14, 2008
Telecast Time: 7.00 p.m. (Thai)
A Canada-Singapore co-production, which re-creates the story of Alexander Cockburn, who as a young man spent the Second World War as a Japanese-held POW under horrific conditions in the notorious Japanese Changi prison in Singapore. Decades later, he journeys back to revisit the place of his imprisonment. He re-lives the fall of Singapore, the beginning of the end of the British Empire.