Tales of Jack & Milly is a series of 15-minute episodes about the adventures of 5 talking rescued pets that live with their human parents on a beautiful green hilly island in the South China Sea.

If only our pets had voices, what would they say? Would they be poets, rappers or philosophers, or just like, well… family…

Jack is a 6 year-old beige village dog who looks like a cross between a wolf and a teddy bear.

Milly is a 5 year-old petite black village dog. They have 3 younger siblings: Eeva, a low-slung, wire haired Jack Russell, O’Malley, a ginger tomcat, who are both 5 years old and Louie the Maine Coon cat is 7 years old. In this 2nd season Jack & Milly decide to change things around so that they can raise their profile as a family in the neighbourhood and better protect their humans.

You’ll meet some new characters along the way and there’s always plenty going on locally.

Written & Produced by Gary Brightman

Narrated by Stefan Gannon Featuring:-

Dr. Esslin Terrighena as Milly

Gary Brightman as Jack

Stef Le Gall as Eeva

Cary Nicolson as O'Malley

Stephen Walsh as Louie

Andy Tait as Haggis

Shelly Cox as Field Mouse Montgomery

Ciara Morris as Chekov

Music by Celestial

Recorded at Studio 114 - [email protected]

The pets in ‘Tales of Jack & Milly’ were adopted from TAILS (Team for Animals in Lantau South) a Hong Kong registered charity. The pets are all looked after by Lantau Vets.

For further information you can visit their website at https://www.tailslantau.org/ Or facebook at tailslantau or instagram at tails.lantau

These stories of which this is the 2nd in the second series are about 3 dogs and 2 cats. They had nothing going for them and no hope for a secure and happy future, until they were given a home by a human family.

Tales of Jack & Milly is a series of 15-minute episodes about the adventures of 5 talking rescued pets that live with their human parents on a beautiful green hilly island in the South China Sea.

If only our pets had voices, what would they say? Would they be poets, rappers or philosophers, or just like, well… family…

Jack is a 6 year-old beige village dog who looks like a cross between a wolf and a teddy bear. Milly is a 5 year-old petite black village dog. They have 3 younger siblings: Eeva, a low-slung, wire haired Jack Russell, O’Malley, a ginger tomcat, who are both 5 years old and Louie the Maine Coon cat is 7 years old. In this 2nd season Jack & Milly decide to change things around so that they can raise their profile as a family in the neighbourhood and better protect their humans. You’ll meet some new characters along the way and there’s always plenty going on locally.

Written & Produced by Gary Brightman

Narrated by Stefan Gannon

Featuring:-

Dr. Esslin Terrighena as Milly

Gary Brightman as Jack

Stef Le Gall as Eeva

Cary Nicolson as O'Malley

Stephen Walsh as Louie

Paul Elliott as Eddie the Egret

Music by Celestial Recorded at Studio 114 - [email protected]

The pets in ‘Tales of Jack & Milly’ were adopted from TAILS (Team for Animals in Lantau South) a Hong Kong registered charity.

The pets are all looked after by Lantau Vets.

For further information you can visit their website at https://www.tailslantau.org/ Or facebook at tailslantau or instagram at tails.lantau

These stories of which this is the 1st in the second series are about 3 dogs and 2 cats. They had nothing going for them and no hope for a secure and happy future, until they were given a home by a human family.

Established in 2018 by Gary Brightman - VIBE is a Book & Music shop situated in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in Hong Kong.

This weeks interview is with long term Lantau resident, Bob Bunker

Born in the UK; on graduating in 1968 from Cambridge with a degree in French and German, Bob went to work for a stockbroking firm in the City of London, to look after their European business.

He came to HK in 1979, where he worked for Chase Manhattan Bank. Then spent many years as a Director of HSBC’s investment operation and latterly worked for a private investment operation along with several ex-HSBC colleagues, before retiring in 2010.

He sat for many years on the Listing Committee for the HK Stock Exchange, vetting mainland companies for listing. Bob was one of the founding fathers who set up the Hong Kong Securities Institute, to improve standards of professionalism in the financial industry, and set entry exams and licensing.

Bob and his wife Sally and 2 sons, took a weekend cottage in Shui Hau on Lantau in 1985, and then moved to live full time in Mui Wo in 1997.

He’s retired now on Lantau with his well-known artist wife Sally - they have 2 sons, 2 grandchildren and a dog.

Tails of Jack & Milly is 6 x 10-minute series about the adventures of 5 talking rescued pets that live with their human parents on a beautiful green hilly island in the South China Sea.

If only our pets had voices, what would they say? Would they be poets, rappers or philosophers, or just like, well… family…

Jack is a 5 year-old beige village dog who looks like a cross between a wolf and a teddy bear. Milly is a 4 year-old petite black village dog. They have 2 younger siblings: Eeva, a low-slung, wired hair Jack Russell and O’Malley, a ginger tomcat, who are both 4 years old.

In this episode a new family member joins - Louie the Maine Coon cat is 6 years old.

Written & Produced by Gary Brightman

Narrated by Stefan Gannon

Featuring

Dr. Esslin Terrighena as Milly

Gary Brightman as Jack

Stef Le Gall as Eeva

Cary Nicolson as O'Malley

Stephen Walsh as Louie

Music by Celestial

Aesop's Fable: 'Belling the Cat'

Recorded at Studio 114 - [email protected]

The pets in ‘Tales of Jack & Milly’ were adopted from TAILS (Team for Animals in Lantau South) a Hong Kong registered charity.

The pets are all looked after by Lantau Vets.

For further information you can visit their website at https://www.tailslantau.org/ Or facebook at tailslantau or instagram at tails.lantau

These stories of which this is the sixth in the series are about 3 dogs and a 2 cats. They had nothing going for them and no hope for a secure and happy future, until they were given a home by a human family.

Tails of Jack & Milly is 10-minute series about the adventures of 4 talking rescued pets that live with their human parents on a beautiful green hilly island in the South China Sea.

If only our pets had voices, what would they say? Would they be poets, rappers or philosophers, or just like, well… family…

Jack is a 5 year-old beige village dog who looks like a cross between a wolf and a teddy bear. Milly is a 4 year-old petite black village dog. They have 2 younger siblings: Eeva, a low-slung, wired hair Jack Russell and O’Malley, a ginger tomcat, who are both 4 years old.

Written & Produced by Gary Brightman

Narrated by Stefan Gannon

Featuring

Dr. Esslin Terrighena as Milly

Gary Brightman as Jack

Stef Le Gall as Eeva

Cary Nicolson as O'Malley

Music by Celestial

Aesop's Fable: 'Jack's Story'

Recorded at Studio 114 - [email protected]

The pets in ‘Tales of Jack & Milly’ were adopted from TAILS (Team for Animals in Lantau South) a Hong Kong registered charity.

The pets are all looked after by Lantau Vets.

For further information you can visit their website at https://www.tailslantau.org/ Or facebook at tailslantau or instagram at tails.lantau

These stories of which this is the fourth in the series are about 3 dogs and a cat. They had nothing going for them and no hope for a secure and happy future, until they were given a home by a human family.

Tails of Jack & Milly is 10-minute series about the adventures of 4 talking rescued pets that live with their human parents on a beautiful green hilly island in the South China Sea.

If only our pets had voices, what would they say? Would they be poets, rappers or philosophers, or just like, well… family…

Jack is a 5 year-old beige village dog who looks like a cross between a wolf and a teddy bear. Milly is a 4 year-old petite black village dog. They have 2 younger siblings: Eeva, a low-slung, wired hair Jack Russell and O’Malley, a ginger tomcat, who are both 4 years old.

Written & Produced by Gary Brightman

Narrated by Stefan Gannon

Featuring

Dr. Esslin Terrighena as Milly

Gary Brightman as Jack

Stef Le Gall as Eeva

Cary Nicolson as O'Malley

Music by Celestial

Aesop's Fable: 'Jack's Story'

Recorded at Studio 114 - [email protected]

The pets in ‘Tales of Jack & Milly’ were adopted from TAILS (Team for Animals in Lantau South) a Hong Kong registered charity.

The pets are all looked after by Lantau Vets.

For further information you can visit their website at https://www.tailslantau.org/ Or facebook at tailslantau or instagram at tails.lantau

These stories of which this is the third in the series are about 3 dogs and a cat. They had nothing going for them and no hope for a secure and happy future, until they were given a home by a human family.

Tails of Jack & Milly is 10-minute series about the adventures of 4 talking rescued pets that live with their human parents on a beautiful green hilly island in the South China Sea.

If only our pets had voices, what would they say? Would they be poets, rappers or philosophers, or just like, well… family…

Jack is a 5 year-old beige village dog who looks like a cross between a wolf and a teddy bear. Milly is a 4 year-old petite black village dog. They have 2 younger siblings: Eeva, a low-slung, wired hair Jack Russell and O’Malley, a ginger tomcat, who are both 4 years old.

Written & Produced by Gary Brightman

Narrated by Stefan Gannon

Featuring

Dr. Esslin Terrighena as Milly

Gary Brightman as Jack

Stef Le Gall as Eeva

Cary Nicolson as O'Malley

Music by Celestial

Aesop's Fable: 'Jack's Story'

Recorded at Studio 114 - [email protected]

The pets in ‘Tales of Jack & Milly’ were adopted from TAILS (Team for Animals in Lantau South) a Hong Kong registered charity.

The pets are all looked after by Lantau Vets.

For further information you can visit their website at https://www.tailslantau.org/ Or facebook at tailslantau or instagram at tails.lantau

These stories of which this is the fifth in the series are about 3 dogs and a cat. They had nothing going for them and no hope for a secure and happy future, until they were given a home by a human family.

Established in 2018 by Gary Brightman - VIBE is a Book & Music shop situated in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in Hong Kong.

This weeks interview is with a mate Pete Millward of Celestial. I’ve been pestering him to interview with me since VIBE opened back in early 2018…

His latest album ‘Sub Coda’ is used as the sound-bed for this interview.

Back in 2018, high on my priority list was to add the music shop into the book shop mix. Although I’d accumulated a lot of vinyl and CDs, I wanted to feature local Hong Kong artists, such as GDJYB who I’d recently written and produced a documentary on after leaving film school. Mate Pete Millward lives on Lantau island and although I knew he worked for Drum Music producing music for such big HK brands as Cathay, HSBC and HK Sevens, I hadn’t heard his music under the guise of Celestial. He supplied me with his back catalogue and I was immediately sold on it, maybe because we’re both born in 1960 and have the same musical references throughout our lives…

“Celestial” is a Hong Kong based collective whose unique sound resonates with the diversity of life in this city. Celestial was conceived by producer and guitarist Peter Millward, a co-founder of Drum Music along with Eddie Chung. Pete moved to Hong Kong in 1990 from South London coming from a background playing in punk bands and recording reggae acts. Upon arrival he was asked to write music for a leading fashion boutique for their compilation album. His unique fusion of Asian sounds with modern production techniques pioneered the emerging genre of “Asian chill-out” music - and the idea for “Celestial” was born.

Pete, who produces, arranges, mixes, plays guitar, bass, melodica, and keyboards, plus programming and various other bits of audio manipulation, is a long time Hong Kong resident, with his musical roots in the Punk and Dub Reggae of the ’70s.

I liked Celestial’s music so much that I asked Pete if I could use it in my newly written and directed sci-fi series called ‘Transformed’ back in 2014. Very generously he said I could use any of his music in my work for free, just credit ‘Celestial’ and I’ve been using his music for my sound beds ever since. Indeed, this very podcast uses a sample from a track ‘Green Island Dub’ for its intro/outro. He has performed at VIBE with mate Mike Hill under the guise Elektro Mull. Indeed he’s performed many other times at VIBE under the guise of Celestial. He recently performed at Clockenflap and also Lantau Live music festival.

https://hongkongdubstation.com/

10 Questions….

1. Favourite book or authors? George Orwell, Graham Greene, Raymond Chandler, Ernest Hemmingway, Hanif Murakami, Cormack McCarthy

2. Favourite musical artists? The Clash, The Specials, Joy Division, Philip Glass, Miles Davis, Nick Cave, The Who, David Bowie & Rolling Stones

3. Favourite films? Bladerunner, Bladerunner 2049, The Big Lebowski, Wings of Desire, Coen Brothers films

4. Preferred drink? Depends on the time of day - tea/coffee, beer later, wine with food

5. Life motto? Go into everything with an open mind

6. Favourite HK walk? Over Lantau Peak, Happy Valley to Shek O

7. Favourite HK restaurant? My kitchen. The Globe, Fiata Pizza. China Beach Club. The Gallery. Ciao Bella. The Kitchen. Southside

8. Best advice you were given? More an action of learning to hug family…

9. Finish this sentence… I live in Hong Kong because… Came to HK with girlfriend for work and working with a mate

10. Favourite area of Hong Kong? Lantau

https://www.vibehk.com/

Established in 2018 by Gary Brightman - VIBE is a Book & Music shop situated in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in Hong Kong.

This is our periodic podcast and in this episode I interview Ed Salter - organiser of 'Lantau Live 2024 Music Festival on Lantau Island, HK https://lantaulive.com/   / lantaulive     / lantaulive   https://www.ticketflap.com/lantaulive...

BIO

Edward Salter is, amongst many other things the organizer of Lantau Live… His musical journey began at the tender age of five in Kent in the UK. Growing up surrounded by music, he started with the piano and later studied the saxophone during his secondary school years. His passion for music led him to the University of Hull, where he studied music at the scenic Scarborough campus.

After university, Ed answered the call of adventure, taking on various live musical 'gigs' in China and the Middle East, ultimately settling in Hong Kong. In this vibrant city, he dedicated himself to teaching music and drama, establishing an Extra-Curricular Activities (ECA) program with schools in the New Territories.

In addition to his musical pursuits, Ed harbors a deep passion for graphic design and web development. During the COVID pandemic, he made a significant transition into the world of software and web development, blending his artistic sensibilities with technology.

Today, Ed continues to inspire students and innovate within the worlds of music and technology.

10 Questions

1. Favourite book or authors? Hobbit Trilogy, Fantasy Fiction

2. Favourite musical artists? Motown, Stevie Wonder, Jamiroquai, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Queen

3. Favourite films? Shawshank Redemption, Django Unchained, Pulp Fiction

4. Preferred drink? Tomato Soup, Pineapple juice, Pale Ale

5. Life motto? Music transcends language. 'Music is the tool to express life and all that makes a difference' Herbie Hancock

6. Favourite HK walk? Pak Ngam hun to Tigers head

7. Favourite HK restaurant? Char sui & egg restaurant in kowloon city

8. Best advice you were given? Keep doing what your doing

9. Finish this sentence… I live in Hong Kong because… Music career brought me here and fell in love with HK.

10. Favourite area of Hong Kong? Mui Wo, Lantau Island. Kowloon City

Established in 2018 by Gary Brightman - VIBE is a Book & Music shop situated in Mui Wo on Lantau Island in Hong Kong.

This is our periodic podcast and in this episode I interview Father John Wotherspoon. ...also announcing upcoming Lantau Live Music festival on Sunday 24th November 11am until 9pm

https://lantaulive.com/

https://www.ticketflap.com/lantaulive...

For this week’s interview I went up to Jordon in Kowloon to interview a very special guest…

Father John Wotherspoon is a Catholic priest from Brisbane, Australia who has been in HK since 1985. He is a Correctional Services Department prison chaplain and is a founder of two NGOs Voice for Prisoners and MercyHK. MercyHK is an organization caring for homeless and other needy people in Hong Kong They have a meeting place at 187 Temple st, Kowloon and a Canteen at 191 Temple St. Voice for Prisoners are a Hong Kong-based NGO that helps prisoners overcome some of the many challenges encountered behind bars. They support prisoners through advancement of education and prison visitation programmes. Through social media they raise awareness in overseas countries of the harsh penalties in Hong Kong for drug mules. https://www.mercyhk.org/

https://www.voiceforprisoners.org/

https://www.doctorjesus.org/

10 Questions

1. Favourite book or authors? The Bible. Author Joseph F. Girzone. 'Lond Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela

2. Favourite musical artists? The Seekers. John Denver. Abba. The Beatles.

3. Favourite films? 'Joseph and the coat of many colours'. 'Mulan'

4. Preferred drink? Green Tea 5. Life motto? 'Make the spreading of the good news your life's work' 2nd Timothy

6. Favourite HK walk? Big Wave Bay

7. Favourite HK restaurant? MercyHK Canteen at 191 Temple St, Kowloon. HK

8. Best advice you were given? Be good

9. Finish this sentence… I live in Hong Kong because… 40 years ago, Catholic Oblate Priests in Rome were looking for people to come to HK

10. Favourite area of Hong Kong? Big Wave Bay. Kowloon Park. West Kowloon waterfront. Temple Street and Jordon