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Deborah Feldman found worldwide fame with her autobiography Unorthodox, adapted into a highly successful Netflix series. In this extensive interview, she talks about the central and vital role books have played in her life, on post-war writing dealing with the holocaust, and also contemporary events, notably the Israel-Hamas war.

The Book that Changed my Life

An extensive interview with writer Deborah Feldman, famous for her autobiography Unorthodox, adapted into a highly successful series.

Deborah Feldman

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Limiting global warming to 1.5°C by the end of the century - a target set in 2015 - is proving difficult to achieve. There's no doubt that it will be a hot topic at the UN-sponsored COP28 climate talks taking place in the United Arab Emirates from November. Joining 197 other nations, the EU will undoubtedly play a central role. But has it kept to its promises?

COP28: What is Europe's Role?

As the world's nations gather in Dubai to discuss climate change, what will Europe's position be?

ARTE Europe Weekly

Charlie Winston first came to public attention back in the 2000s with his hit "Like a Hobo." He's now performing in one of Europe's leading cultural heritage hotspots: the Halle Verrière in Meisenthal, a small village nestled in the Vosges du Nord nature park in northeastern France.

Live from Meisenthal's Halle Verrière.

The British singer and guitarist performs live in an 18th-century European glassworks.

Charlie Winston

Countries across the European Union are grappling with the worst housing crisis in decades. A perfect storm of factors led us to this point: an already existent housing shortage, a war, an energy crisis, high interest rates and building costs, and a rise in the cost of living. Everyone, from students to pensioners, is affected. We compare the situation across Europe and ask what can be done about it.

Europe’s Great Housing Crisis

Rising rents and interest rates, coupled with a housing shortage, mean that Europe is sinking into a housing crisis.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has promised the Catalan separatists amnesty in order to stay in power which has triggered mass protests in Madrid.

Political Crisis in Spain

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has promised the Catalan separatists amnesty in order to stay in power which has triggered mass protests.

Mapping the World Essentials

How has the life of European Union citizens changed since the Maastricht Treaty came into force thirty years ago, on 1 November 1993? Documentary filmmaker, David Holland, born the same year as Maastricht travels the length and breadth of the continent by rail to find out.

A Journey through the Continent

How has the life of EU citizens changed since the Maastricht Treaty came into force thirty years ago?

Europe since Maastricht

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From the Gilded Age to the present day, the history of modern America has been one of wealth and power concentrated into the hands of a few families with enormous fortunes. In three episodes, this documentary tells the story of American capitalism over 150 years: From Rockefeller to present day plutocrats, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, via the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the subprime crisis of 2007.

Three-part series

The story of American capitalism over 150 years, from Rockefeller to Reagan, to present day plutocrats.

American Capitalism - The Cult of Wealth

From Lucrezia Borgia to Malinche to Marie Curie: Women’s contributions have often been downplayed or misrepresented in the history books. Duels of History (re)tells their stories.

Women’s contributions to history have often been downplayed or misrepresented. Duels of History (re)tells their stories.

Duels of History

Since the Hamas attacks on Israel, the Ha'achim restaurant in Tel Aviv has become a community kitchen with volunteers, who prepare food parcels there, still reeling from the shock of recent events. In Ukraine, chef Ievgen Klopotenko has been proudly showcasing his country's gastronomy as an expression of culture and identity.

When Cooking Gets Political

How food is an expression of community, culture and identity in Israel and Ukraine.

Tracks East

Jannik and Tai are 17 and are called “Fatty” and “Fiji” at school. Two outsiders. When they find their drunken head teacher on the street one night and lock him in his own flat, what starts as a joke turns into a full-blown kidnapping. Tai enjoys playing God and forces the teacher to bare his soul. But as the teens uncover the man's secrets, the stupid fun turns serious.

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Two teens stumble upon their drunken head teacher and lock him in his flat. But the silly prank gets out of hand...

Naked Above Berlin

Why is it that a comparatively rare disorder such as coeliac disease seems to have become widespread within a few years? With more and more people complaining about digestive problems after eating cereals, is gluten really responsible? An in-depth focus on gluten, gluten-free diets and the food industry.

With more and more people complaining about digestive problems after eating cereals, is gluten really responsible?

Gluten: Public Enemy Number One

The wait is over. After six years of deafening silence, The Kills are back with a sixth album: God Games. And what better way to discover this new work than onstage at the ARTE Concert Festival?

ARTE Concert Festival 2023

After a six year absence, this legendary duo have chosen the ARTE Concert Festival to make their comeback! 

The Kills

The painting "Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy" was discovered in a modest private collection. But is it really one of the last great works by Caravaggio, the Italian master of chiaroscuro? A fascinating investigation travelling from Paris via Italy to Malta in search of the truth.

Is a painting found in a modest private collection really one of the last great works by the Italian master?

The Caravaggio Mystery

When war disrupts daily life, social issues often take a back seat. Tracks East meets the men and women who refuse to let armed conflict get in their way. Anna, a doctor in Kyiv, wants sexual liberation along with sexual health and Alina and Stanislava are campaigning for equal marriage.

Social Activism in Wartime

Tracks East meets the men and women who refuse to let armed conflict get in the way of social issues.

How can we live a happy life? And should we be pleased that our lives are short? Ronja von Rönne investigates the philosophy of happiness by meeting Jean-Remy von Matt, a major figure in German advertising and Sister Katharine, who left her job in finance to become a nun.

A guide to living a contented existence.

How can we live a happy life? And should we be pleased that our lives are short? Ronja von Rönne investigates the philosophy of happiness.

Unhappy

Asaf Avidan took the world by storm with his hit "Reckoning Song" and an unmistakeable voice quivering with emotion. Here, the artist explores more personal territory in a fragile, intimate moment showcasing his qualities as a songwriter and composer. 

Reckoning Song hitmaker Asaf Avidan plays solo at Nancy Jazz Pulsations 2023

After becoming world-famous with his hit "Reckoning Song", the Israeli musician returns to performing solo. 

Asaf Avidan

Hania Rani has a gift in creating moments of intimate communion with her audience using only her fingertips, one reason why this Polish pianist is seeing her star rise in the neoclassical world. Her liberated, graceful playing defies codes and labels, while her startling melodies captivate and transport audiences. For this unmissable concert, Hania Rani  performs alongside Ziemowit Klimek.

Nancy Jazz Pulsations 2023

Witness this rising star of neoclassical piano suspend time using only her fingertips.

Hania Rani

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In 1844, Hans Christian Andersen imagined the story of an evil troll who wanted to drive the goodness out of the hearts of humans. To achieve this, he hangs a huge magic mirror in front of the moon. When it breaks, the people touched by its shards become insensitive to human kindness and see the worst in people.

After Hans Christian Andersen

A multidisciplinary work including ice hockey, figure skating, dance and acrobatics telling Hans Christian Anderson's classic tale. 

The Snow Queen

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Since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out on October 7, Europe has seen a resurgence of anti-Semitism. Fuelled by discriminatory clichés, its return is largely due to its traces, still present across the continent. But what is the EU doing to combat the return of anti-Semitism? We take a closer look.

Since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out, Europe has seen a resurgence of anti-Semitism.

Europe faces a resurgence of anti-Semitism

In Israel everything changed overnight on 7 October. In this episode, Tracks East looks at life in the Jewish state after the Hamas attack.

Israel: Life After Terror

In Israel everything changed overnight on 7 October. In this episode, Tracks East looks at life after the Hamas attack.

A focus on the geopolitical dynamics of the Middle East following the signing in 2020 of the Abraham Accords between Israel and four countries in the Arab world.

New Alliances in a Region in Crisis

A focus on Middle East geopolitical after the signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel and four Arab countries.

Middle East: Between War and Peace

Beirut is just 80 kilometres from the border with Israel. Palestinians in the camps in Lebanon are watching the bitter war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza with concern but they are divided between Hamas and Fatah supporters.

Lebanon: Hamas and Fatah United?

Palestinians in the camps in Lebanon are watching the bitter war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza with concern but they are divided between Hamas and Fatah supporters.

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As Israel reels from the 7 October Hamas attack, left-wing voters are especially lost. Many of the locations attacked by Hamas such as the Kibbutzim are home to Israelis advocating for peaceful coexistence and a Palestinian state.

Israel: The left in Disarray

As Israel reels from the 7 October Hamas attack, left-wing voters are especially lost. 

The creation of an independent Palestinian state seemed possible in 1993, but thirty years later it feels like a distant prospect. The two-state solution has yet to materialise, and recent years have been marred by political assassinations, violent uprisings, extremism, terrorist attacks, and police repression.

What Future for Palestine?

The creation of an independent Palestinian state seemed possible in 1993, but thirty years later it feels like a distant prospect.

Mapping the World

Founded in 1948 after the trauma of the holocaust, Israel, where three-quarters of the population is Jewish, has gone through many crises and has tense relations with the Palestinian territories and neighbouring Arab states.

Israel: Endless Conflict, New Alliances

Every year Israel builds more and more road infrastructure in the occupied West Bank, encouraging new settlements to house the overspill from the crowded urban centres of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. But where is the space for a Palestinian state?

Israel: Making (In)Roads into the West Bank

Every year Israel builds more and more road infrastructure in the occupied West Bank, encouraging new settlements to house the overspill from the crowded urban centres of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. 

In the north of the West Bank, near Nablus, a new episode in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being played out: the War of the Hills. It pits young radical Jewish settlers, protected by the Israeli army, against young militant Palestinians from a new armed group: the Lion's Den.

West Bank: War in the Hills

In the north of the West Bank, near Nablus, a new episode in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being played out:

What are the historical and geopolitical causes of the Israel-Palestine conflict?

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War in the Middle East

Situated between the world's two biggest cocaine producers, Colombia and Peru, Ecuador was once a haven of peace and stability in South America. But in recent years, the levels of violence linked to the drug trade have soared.

Ecuador was once a haven of peace and stability in South America. But in recent years, levels of violence linked to the drug trade have soared.

Ecuador: A Narco State

More than 400,000 people fleeing war in Sudan have found refuge in neighbouring Chad, one of the poorest countries in the world. At the border town of Adré, a huge camp has appeared from nowhere as Chad struggles to house the new arrivals.

More than 400,000 people fleeing war in Sudan have found refuge in neighbouring Chad, one of the poorest countries in the world. 

Chad: Survivors of Darfur

For nearly 50 years Albania lived under perhaps Europe’s harshest communist dictatorship with omnipresent surveillance, imprisonments, and executions. Today the country has chosen to open up the archives of the feared state police, the Sigurmi. Are Albanians ready to face up to a difficult past?

Albania has chosen to open up the archives of the feared state police, the Sigurmi. 

Albania Faces its Dark Past

Indonesia is the second largest producer of plastic waste in the sea with the situation set to get worse. Environmental protection organisations collect and analyse plastic waste found on beaches, in mangrove forests and in rivers in order to shame the worst polluting companies.

Danone: Plastic Pollution in Bali

Indonesia is the second largest producer of plastic waste in the sea with the situation set to get worse. 

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Nickel, gold, iron, zinc, uranium... Beneath the pastures of Southern Greenland lies a host of natural resources. With global warming making them more easily accessible will Greenland choose to mine them? Or alternatively take advantage of a milder climate to develop the agricultural sector?

A crucial dilemma for Greenlanders: Mine their rich natural resources or concentrate on agriculture?

Greenland: Agriculture or Mining?

Why does the European Union allow deadly pesticides banned at home to be exported to developing countries? Brazil, especially, uses large quantities of harmful pesticides imported from Europe with terrible effects on the population’s health.

Why does the European Union allow deadly pesticides banned at home to be exported to developing countries? 

Pesticides: European Hypocrisy

The Phelophepa is a train hospital that travels rural South Africa providing much needed healthcare. Every two weeks the train travels to a new town where its dedicated health care teams offer their services tirelessly to local communities.

South Africa: A Hospital on Rails

A train hospital crosses rural South Africa to provide healthcare to communities that need it.

From his gilded youth in Europe to the bloody repression of the Arab Spring, this is the engrossing story of Muammar Gaddafi's second son who, despite arrest warrants for crimes against humanity, is running for election in Libya.

Saif Al Islam Gaddafi's Comeback

Son of a Dictator

Jennifer Weist, Disarstar, Blond, PTK and the “Ton Steine Scherben” are German artists with one thing in common: the use music to send out radical political messages out. Because if the cultural world isn’t ready to play politics, then who is? These outspoken artists live in squats and write songs against the far-right AfD party, sometimes tinkering around the edges of legality.

This programme by German channel ARD is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

The power of music

Political protest can also be done through music, as these Berlin-based artists have shown.

Rebels: I rebel, therefore I am

At the height of the Cold War in 1957, at a time when the USSR and the USA were locked in ferocious competition, the US federal government created the "National Radio Quiet Zone". This vast area of 33,000 km² in rural Virginia, where radio communication is restricted, is used for scientific research and military intelligence.

USA: National Radio Quiet Zone

The vast area of Virginia where radio communication is restricted, is used for scientific research and military intelligence gathering.

Vertical indoor farming, algorithms that create precise climate conditions and LED lighting to stimulate growth: The Netherlands is preparing to feed the world's growing population with high-tech agriculture. The small country is already the second largest exporter of agricultural produce in the world, just behind the USA.

Vertical farming, algorithms and LED lighting to stimulate growth: The Netherlands wants to feed the world with high-tech agriculture.

Re: High-tech Food In the Netherlands

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In Latvia, all eyes are on its border with Belarus. Since Lukashenko was elected and the EU imposed new sanctions on his authoritarian regime, Belarus has been accused of ‘weaponising’ migrants in response.

Latvia has strengthened its measures to stop migrants crossing from neighbouring Belarus.

'Weaponisation' of migrants at Latvia-Belarus border

For a long time, prices of goods in Verona were well above the national Italian average. Against a backdrop of inflation, the city has started displaying the fluctuation of food prices from month to month. It’s a way to combat ‘greedflation’, where industries ride on the wave of high prices to increase their profit margins. Since then, prices in Verona have fallen.

In Verona, northern Italy, the city has decided to display the fluctuation of prices to combat ‘greedflation’.

How Italy is combatting 'greedflation'

An independent inquiry found that more than 200,000 minors are estimated to have been sexually abused by clergy in the Catholic Church in Spain. For years, the Church has been covering up this abuse, much like it has done in other countries. There are now calls for the Church to pay reparations to the victims.

An explosive report reveals widespread sexual violence in the Catholic Church in Spain.

Abuse rife in Spain's Catholic Church

Europe facing a resurgence of anti-Semitism

Are the EU’s expansion plans finally getting a reboot? Reforms are being undertaken in hopeful states from Ukraine and Georgia to the Western Balkans to ensure their inclusion in the next few years. This week on ARTE Europe weekly: big questions loom over the future of the European project and its readiness to accept new members.

EU Enlargement: Is Ukraine set to join?

How an expanded EU with Ukraine and the Western Balkans could reshape the bloc.

ARTE Europe weekly

Faced with discrimination, workers aged 50 and over in the UK are finding it harder to get a full-time job. Meanwhile, companies are increasing their number of zero-hour or part-time contracts, making workers more job insecure and delaying the retirement age.

In the UK, a record number of people aged 50 and over are working part-time.

Senior workers in the UK face job insecurity

Using student visas, many migrants transit through Istanbul to land in Northern Cyprus, which is controlled by Turkey. They then cross on foot or by car to the southern part of the divided island, which is a member of the European Union. More than 18,500 people made this journey last year. Cypriot authorities are calling out Turkey's manipulation of the situation.

Many migrants arrive in the Turkish-controlled northern part of Cyprus on student visas, with the EU as their final destination.

Migration: Turkey puts pressure on Cyprus

Since the war between Russia and Ukraine broke out, Romanian fishermen have had to contend with the danger of drifting sea mines. Although the Romanian navy regularly demines the waters, the currents of the Black Sea have carried the mines as far as Bulgaria and even Turkey, endangering civilian vessels.

Fishermen in the Black Sea are worried about drifting sea mines from the war in Ukraine.

Romanian fishermen battle with sea mines

Public desecrations of the Koran by far-right groups and an Iraqi refugee in Sweden have soured its relations with many Muslim countries. But Sweden suspects these acts have been carried out as part of a larger misinformation campaign, orchestrated by Russia.

Sweden is accusing Russia of orchestrating a mass misinformation campaign to turn the Muslim world against it. 

Sweden: Who benefits from Koran burnings?

This summer, the European Parliament introduced an unprecedented law to ensure that member states provide adequate support for rape victims and punish perpetrators. But it has run into legal and ideological roadblocks from some countries, including France and Germany, which refuse to define rape as the absence of consent.

European institutions are at odds over the definition of rape and consent.

Only yes means yes - A European law on rape

In France, the ready-to-wear sector is going through an intense crisis. In the first quarter of 2023, around 50 companies were in receivership or liquidation. A figure that has risen by 33% in one year. Why the turmoil? And why are Spanish brands like Zara and Mango still so successful?

While the number of clothing store closures are increasing in France, Spanish brands are doing well.

French Fashion Industry in Turmoil

Finland’s right-wing government has plans to roll out sweeping austerity measures, which has sparked protests and strikes across the country. The measures include cutting workers' rights and social welfare benefits, but also clamp down on immigration at a time when Finland is in need of skilled workers.

Union leaders in Finland say the right-wing government is rolling out “reverse Robin Hood” austerity measures.

Finland faces strikes and protests over labour reforms

The war in Ukraine is taking place 5,000 kilometres from the Indian subcontinent, yet its impact is clear in the city of Surat. The centre of India’s diamond industry is suffering from western sanctions on Russian diamonds.

The war in Ukraine is happening 5,000 kilometres from the subcontinent, yet its impact is clear on India's diamond industry.

India: Diamonds in War

Neighbouring Lithuania is a safe haven for exiled Belarusians. Hundreds have fled Alexander Lukashenko’s regime to seek refuge in this EU member state. But Minsk consistently tries to make life difficult for them, by impeding access to official documents or hindering their ability to do business back home.

Hundreds of exiled Belarusians have sought refuge in Lithuania. But Lukashenko’s regime makes life difficult for them, even abroad.

Belarusian exiled opposition faces pitfalls in Lithuania

Following the terrible attack by Hamas, Israel has responded with massive airstrikes and the siege of Gaza. But there is also another threat, Hezbollah from the north. This episode looks at the key role Lebanon has played in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Israel - Hamas: Lebanon's Role

A look at the key role Lebanon has played in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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