Singapore Swing is a journey through modern day Singapore
- a place full of history, contradictions of both old & new, & a reputation as a travel destination du jour. For generations of Britons, Singapore was the international crossroads of the Empire, the ultimate colonial posting, inspiring artists such as Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham & Noël Coward. Can today’s high-tech city provide a similar kind of inspiration to a visitor? With fond memories of his time there as a backpacker, John Malathronas returns to Singapore to penetrate the oriental psyche & discovers the hustle among the stuffiness, the thrill behind the Confucian ethic &, ultimately, the joie de vivre in what has been unjustly dismissed as ‘a shopping mall with UN representation’. During his quest he realizes that this overcrowded, multicultural, multi-religious city-state can teach us a lesson about co-habitation & mutual respect.