The Heat is On in Saigon

Marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, Jeremy Vine looks back at the history and legacy of the war through the music of that era, and through the prism of the hit musical, Miss Saigon. Through insights from historians and those at the show’s heart, Jeremy discovers what it took to make a musical about a war. He hears from the creatives behind it, and learns how this traumatic period in history in Saigon and Vietnam was put on the stage, and the role of its haunting music, including Last Night of the World, The Heat is on in Saigon, The Movie in My Mind, and more. We hear from Lea Salonga, Jon Jon Briones & Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil.