The Arts House at the Old Parliament

This guide to The Arts House at the Old Parliament in Singapore follows two stories of things that ended up somewhere they were never meant to be. A teenage Siamese king's 1871 visit explains the bronze elephant now standing outside, while an Irish architect's 1826 mansion for a Scottish merchant who never spent a night in it became, by turns, colonial courts, offices, and eventually Singapore's first Parliament. Listen for how a private commission kept being repurposed by history.