The most refreshing aspect of the documentary The Hong Kong Story (World, 6pm) is that it makes only passing reference to the handover.
That's not because the film-makers wanted to play down the significance of the change of sovereignty, but just that the film is not about it per se.
Elaine Forsgate Marden decided to make a film on Hong Kong after working on a project about racing in the territory.
She discovered a wealth of material in the process and spent the past 14 years researching it, looking at archives and films as far afield as London, Beijing and the United States.
The result, made in partnership with director Libby Halliday, traces the Hong Kong story from the heyday of the Hoklo and Tanka fisherfolk to arrivals of great clans who settled the New Territories eight centuries ago right up to the present day.
More recent images include a North Point picnic in 1938 and the late Lord Kadoorie musing on the difference between Shanghai and the small town of Hong Kong and comparing them with London and Bournemouth.