most time yet so. these we didn't have to go somewhere every day and see more and more broadly she chinee of this pursuit gives me everything the complaints the wins i have to give something back i feel obliged to look at history museums or any other person. one will use surfers fighting against unseen pollution in the city starch july fourteenth w. . i want to welcome to another edition of your match with me your host meghan lee from russian receptions to flashy photography we've got a fun show in store here's a look at what's coming up. london calling discover the secret side of the british

capital. football fever is the russia perfect world cup host nation. and star and time corps by photographs the rock music icon. summer is a great time to explore europe and all this week we've been presenting popular destinations in a different light and today we are off to london now of course tourists want to see the main attractions of the city like buckingham palace tower bridge and the houses of parliament but there is a whole other side to london that is also worth seeing now author bill nash has written a travel book called secret london helping tourists to get off the beaten path and discover parts of the city that aren't so well known for today's episode of our series a different take on europe we met up with mash to get to know his london. shop

in the. regions canal on she's its way north of central london but it's surprisingly tranquil. now runs almost parallel to the river thames. london off the bill nash is interested in the more secluded cons of his hometown. in the last ten years. and in particular since the london olympics a lot of the canals around london of being revitalized cleaned up. life is being reintroduced and that's a lot of people living on house boats next describes the lesson aspects of the city in his book secret london. now daytrippers cruise along regent's canal from little venice to camden. but there are plans to use the canal for transporting freight

house and the pumps to. the banks people can shelf the books on a houseboat visit the house of at you strange. one of them is devoted to the past sins of the sea to palestrina london underground. so the gallery is based in king's cross london which is undergoing this amazing transformation over the past few years and it's now a really exciting area full of galleries and really interesting at landscapes. so the south is so ho want the homes of many artists and filmmakers. today so it was mainly has been just be it has been flops. even so national has a few hidden spots. secret t.v. remains about a palm. beach home first that typical british pretty good

songs served with jam and green. turning noise to drink tea from troy you know from rather than from sort of paper or plastic roll or whatever but this is not like a proper a proper cup of tea rove going to get a mug or two. comes and passage in slings and provides an alternative to shopping in the major department stores. small shops off items like ben teacher clothes and silver. much of the business here is done through mail order. lots of americans now in a way so that a lot. who's try anything baru like cheat. camden's magic circle museum is not far from the busy euston station another magical location. which keeps the secrets of all the magicians in the u.k.

. this performing own tazz a british tradition on display people. talking hand. goals. even the royal family is interested in magic. wrote the magic circle to ask if you could become a member. may bring you to pass the test pass an exam so notions from from a she came down and performed the trick which you know the cops. the cops and past and is now known remember the magic so. now she lives in brixton district in south london. the british capital's first market street to be due to electricity many people in

brixton descended from african and caribbean immigrants. coming. here and it sort of like a degenerate. even if it's in a i don't. live. it's not the richest. but it is the more. it's a victorian convent cum well. she is especially fond of the fox and sank it dates back to eighty nine. and this program is one of the few in london where they still have snags and that's true if you look back.

you can come in here with anyone you like to just close the door behind you. it's the perfect place to round off an evening in one of your. capital. where just about the halfway point is through the world cup soccer tournament in russia now while the various nations battle it out on the side of her. we've been checking out what's going on on the sidelines such as with the fans and the soccer paraphernalia but today we want to take a closer look at the hosts from st petersburg to moscow russians have been preparing for this moment for years so how are they faring as host of one of the world's biggest sporting events here's a closer look. russia has gone all out to host this year's soccer world cup. the bushes hope to score with their diversity beauty splendor and rich culture they welcome fans to the eleven host cities with elegant stadiums

and fireworks a clever move. that wins them for ball so i. russians are proud of their traditions for showing absolutely everything russian folklore has to offer visually and acoustically. setting the tone our. wooden spoons rattled to produce sounds that drive the soccer fans to distraction. the russians take their folklore seriously. even the security personnel wear traditional costumes. they may look relatively harmless but appearances to see there are a tough bunch if necessary. this wins them only three ball so i

think russia is in a soccer frenzy they're playing everywhere on sports grounds on a ship up in space aboard the u.s.s. anzio below ground in a st petersburg subway station. and . fans can even watch the matches live in the subway train. that's world champion quality i five ball i. the fans aren't the only ones out in force street performers to have been spreading the soccer spirit. they transform every street corner and ball into works of art with soccer thing. and a moscow bakery made a life size chocolate cake of the messy as a gift for the team argentina stars thirty first birthday it's proof that art

really is a matter of taste i do balls for a sweet gesture i. know whether the sun is beating down on the mercury is rising up to forty eight degrees celsius in volgograd russia is a land of extremes so football fans need to keep drinking although the russians never dream they drink so much beer it's sold out in many places. but there's no shortage of insects volgograd has been invaded by flies and mosquitoes. no wonder the german squad chose to fly home. for that we award just one ball. when it comes to world cup oracles the russians are being catty achilles a deaf feline who lives at the st petersburg hermitage museum is supposed to predict the match winners but others are vying for his turf like a tiger yars an otter in sochi a goat. and

a mere cat and some are up. and oh lemur and you catch i remember. so just to ball score the resulting confusion. but most important of all is the move russia's national team is in the quarter finals and the home crowd couldn't be happier so. her fans around the globe are joining in the celebrations many never thought a world cup in russia would be this much fun. and that's worth four balls from us. now right and we stay on the topic of the world cup and some other stories making headlines on europe's culture scene coming up in today's express. a restaurant in sente to spread past come up with a tasty way to join the world cup frenzy pizzas depicting the faces of football

stars like christiane over the old and with. it's a way for valerie maxim check head chef at the hop head tough group to combine his love of soccer with his interest in the arts. my main work is as a pizza iola. if this is a hobby that brings me pleasure like any hobby would i was the little boy afford this. every pizza requires nearly two hours of work if russia wins this year's world cup next him just want to make a pizza portrait of every player in his country's national team. the main program in ten months reskill a festival began on wednesday with the storming of the orange stage now it's something of a tradition since saturday less unknown fans have been warming up the crowds at the festival grounds. we ran as fast as we could and legendary music festival welcomes

some one hundred thirty thousand people from around the world each yeah this time one hundred seventy five music acts are on the bill including such big names as nick cave and the bad seeds massive attack and. the festival runs until july seventh. the first horseback archery open world championships are taking place in pool. on the outskirts of budapest the orchards compete in various styles such as hungary and. polish mounted or cheree is a traditional sport in many countries especially in asia but in europe it's growing in popularity combining traditions from various schools with modern techniques the competition ends on july eighth. just as keith richards and mick jagger are synonymous with rock n roll music dutch photographer anton kaur by name is synonymous with rock n roll portraiture for over

forty years he's been taking pictures of rock musicians and their bands now some one hundred twenty of his works are on display and homework. i suspect. anton called by name has shocked some of the most iconic pictures in modern rock history. i'm always admired of people make. but i think the work that i like i think we're our somebody to do that and i would love to. meet this person and cameras are a great excuse to meet somebody. called by name is the most prominent figure out how backs try i mean photography it's mounted an impressive show of this talented photographers work. to there are so many people here and i get

a little nervous with my german by george and it's surprising that even he would be nervous. but he's photographed stars like miles davis. who channel pavarotti and brian eno. but how does he motivate his subjects' to cooperate but i did and this weekend it's everything ready so you feel really safe and you end up forgetting that you're having your picture taken. off and that's really the best way to do it this it's a stand by itself as if he's very tall you feel as if you are like a lighthouse quickly checking out the situation you know you're in good hands and as the subject you reflect the security you stand up there and feel secure for to see. that helps but it's not all much like you stop jacks and some call by him is driven and he loves music closer to me in my mid forty's i was in the hole that i was still so obsessed with music you know because as

a teenage thing ourselves and i was still investing my energy into the proposition so i thought it must gone from the area where you're born. so he started taking a series of photos of his home village striking him in the netherlands in the movie dressed up like musicians george harrison kurt cobain a mock boland. kolbein felt at home in stride i am but at the same time he didn't feel like you belong to anybody and i mean because what i realized was that because there was nothing to fear this was in both interesting to me at the time. it was music that came from across the water from outside of the island that seemed to promise a different kind of life than the life i had that i became obsessed with if you like. my father the preacher my mother study theology my for mother's father was a preacher my mother's brother was a preacher my father sister married the preacher and so you could say and all the

friends were preaching you know this is this is the drive to do something as protestant and do things that have a meaning so when i look back at that i can see that's that's bottom of how i look at things. study itself cemeteries full of iconic imagery kolbein also shot to fame through a tragedy this became the last focal of english rock band joy division singer in katz's looks around questioningly soon after he took his own life. you know the people before you meet them through and that informs you a lot about the people you're going to photograph and if you spend time with this it is same person for longer as well as in the inhibition from there and to be

photographed in all kind of situations and make up images that nobody else got so. doesn't mean you have to become friends with people but. if you don't have to reintroduce yourself every single time with help and help getting your certain pictures reach out and very. read. the. time now for something for you do it yourself or is out there and if you are in need of a unique table then we just might have the solution for you today our resident d.i.y. expert hunch and shows us how to make one out of old books. by what you do with folks that only pile up in your room that you never dreamed of just to go away so today i'd like to show you. with just

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. finally the end table and whatever color you enjoy best. i'd like sky blue. vanished especially both suited because the coast last longer. let the stock drive thru only answer and tell you it's ready to use. you can stack the books even higher and make a decorative color out of them. your own at its best your imax brings you the highlights on instagram stunning landscapes spectacular buildings and mouthwatering delicacy our reporters are constantly on the look out with their cameras we look forward to your comments check out our your mags instagram stories and discover how exciting and diverse europe can be. was on instagram.

and you can find out more about our d.i.y. projects on our you tube page now usually when you go to the opera the pieces that are shown are at least one hundred years old back in mozart or wagners de mostly new works were shown but today only seven percent of operas that are stage are actually new works composer and painters more it's egerton's trying to change that he composed the music for the opening ceremony of the two thousand and six world cup in germany and his goal is to get more living composers to have their work staged in today's day and age. mold that's pianist professor for composition and proponent of contemporary music more than a billion people heard the music he composed for the opening ceremony of the two thousand and six soccer world cup he also writes opera for children and has even

said google's terms of service to music now he's analyze the opera premiers in germany in the twenty seventeen twenty eighteen season and discovered that on average opera goers could expect to hear music that's one hundred thirty nine years old. because i love to think the business has become too smug too self-satisfied too narcissistic and it never changes and for me that's precisely the problem i can't imagine that a hundred years from now people will want to listen to operas that will be on average two hundred thirty nine years old i just can't imagine that this kind of money forced them. he says unfortunately classical music has been taken over by squares to keep repeating the same rituals and don't want any surprises anyone who applauds enthusiastically between movements earn scornful looks but it wasn't always that way of the music the heart and when these works first debuted people smoked and drank and had sex and played roulette along with the music her opera

houses where the city's pleasure domes and the opera was like a side show the guns and stuff that had disadvantages as far as listening was concerned the subject but it also had its advantages about the hopper houses were part of the city and its social fabric on tight is and that's what i'd like to return to and it's all. in twenty eighteen the average opera go in germany is sixty years old the piece that's performed most often is mozart's done giovanni which made its debut in seven hundred eighty seven. new compositions accounts for just seven percent of all premiers the way taggert sees it if something doesn't change very quickly up or his chances of survival are nil he proposes a radical remedy. a repertoire comprised of fifty percent traditional opera and fifty percent contemporary works. done been difficult when we really chronicle the feelings and situations of our time can we create something of value off of us which will still be of interest in the centuries from now when we listen to music

from the eighteenth century that it's exciting because we learn about a world that no longer exists as a god the emotions were very different the relationships between the sexes were different if left for instance in a mozart opera when things happen between women and men it's very different to what occurs between women and men today. these things are in constant flux and so we need to show the present authentically often. classical music as we know it today usually means people in tuxes and evening dresses playing for people in suits and evening dresses and it's been that way since the nineteenth century but in their day composers like beethoven and. revolutionary politically minded individuals who believes it could be like that again was the sea even that they think is there really are entertaining and even amusing contemporary art this is what john adams nixon in china is

a prime example of it's a wonderful piece that has something for everyone is readily understood and has a break music we simply have to give more space to the talented people who write such works other countries are much further ahead in this than in the some touching business by the. move it's egg that says contemporary works can be thrilling you just need to get them a chance. ok maybe a chance is definitely what they need and would that we come to the end of another show don't forget to check us out on social media or go to our website for more on the program for me and the rest of the crew here on max as always thanks tuning for . well see again tomorrow. next time on your imagine. the eternal think italian capitalist with

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