Marek Halter is on quest to find the Righteous: People who helped 500,000 Jews escape the concentration camps.

The Marquise de Flers decides to marry off her granddaughter, the jewel in the crown of the French aristocracy, to Ryno de Marigny.

The Black Death was a catastrophe, killing half of the population of the continent. But was it the worst pandemic ever? 

From trade in goods to critical infrastructure to digital technology, we live in a globalised world. But how interdependent are the EU and the USA?

A look at the life and music of one of Britain’s most charismatic and successful pop stars.

An update on the war in Ukraine, more than four and a half years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country.

No oil, no energy and on the brink of economic collapse: how Cuba has to cope without Venezuela's help.

Half of the population menstruates, but it comes at a cost, and many people find it difficult to afford period products.

Julian Steckel performs Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto under the baton of Tabita Berglund.

Every year, around 5,000 French students go abroad to study medicine. More than half of them choose Romania.  

What is life like in a dictatorship that seems to never end? Tracks East talks to Belarusians inside the country and in exile.

Three quarters of Kosovan citizens are under 35 but over half are unemployed. This series meets the Kosovo youngsters who are taking their future into their own hands and building their country from the bottom up.

More and more young Greeks want to start their own businesses and work for themselves.

NASA images reveal that Africa is a global wildfire hotspot.

In Belgium, farmers are finding it increasingly difficult to pass on their farms to younger generations.

Elvis Costello opens the Leverkusen Jazz Festival in 2025.

Berlin's Zeiss Planetarium welcomes Orbit, the band of Marcel Heym.

After the Israeli-Hezbollah war, the Choobi family return to their frontier village where they find desolation.

A whole day of music performed by the best concert pianists and orchestras from cities across Europe.

On 1st January 2026, Cyprus took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, despite being split in two.