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Battle Kids

La vera storia di "H.I.P. H.O.P" (8/10)

During the H.I.P H.O.P programme breakdance battles gave kids a chance to appear on television and show their talent and compete for prizes. For some it was a life-changing experience.

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France's Ground-Breaking Hip-Hop Show

The Real Story of H.I.P H.O.P

Hip-Hop Culture

<p>During the H.I.P H.O.P programme breakdance battles gave kids a chance to appear on television and show their talent and compete for prizes. For some it was a life-changing experience.</p>

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H.I.P H.O.P was the world’s first TV show about the new urban culture coming out of New York. Created in France in 1984, it introduced a generation of French youth to hip-hop and made a star out of Sidney, the show’s charismatic presenter.

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H.I.P H.O.P was the world’s first TV show about hip-hop created in France in 1984.

Out of This World

Hip-hop’s roots were multicultural, emerging from the melting pot of urban America. H.I.P H.O.P presenter Sidney were also multicultural growing up in a French musical household listening to the American jazz greats.

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Hip-hop’s roots were multicultural, emerging from the melting pot of urban America.

Sidney Made in France

The first French B-Boys showed what they could do on the Trocadero esplanade in Paris. Some travelled to the US and brought back the new dance styles. But it was the release of the film Flashdance in 1983 that brought breakdancing into the mainstream.

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The first French B-Boys showed what they could do on the Trocadero esplanade in Paris. 

The Flashdance Effect

In 1981 newly-elected French president François Mitterand abolished the state’s radio monopoly. Free radio was born which provided fertile ground for new styles such as hip-hop.

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Radio Activity

Before the internet, hip-hop first crossed the Atlantic via mixtapes in hand luggage with French expats Bernard Zekri and Sophie Bramly infiltrating the New York scene.

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Before the internet, hip-hop first crossed the Atlantic via mixtapes in hand luggage. French expats Bernard Zekri and Sophie Bramly infiltrated the New York scene.

Mixtapes from New York

Bernard Zekri organised the world’s first rap tour with DJs, rappers, break-dancers and graffiti writers surprising the European public.

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NYC Rap Tour

On January 14 1984 the very first episode of H.I.P H.O.P is aired in France. The programme was an overnight success with Sidney, the first black person on French TV, becoming a star.

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UFO Lands

The varied guests appearing on H.I.P H.O.P reflected the diversity of early hip-hop culture. They included: Madonna, Grandmixer DST, King Robbo, Keith Haring, Fab Five Freddy, Boogaloo Shrimp, and Herbie Hancock.

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DST MDNA MIX

After only two shorts seasons H.I.P H.O.P finished. Sidney and others tells how fans reacted to the show ending so suddenly and hip-hop culture’s evolution today.

After only two shorts seasons H.I.P H.O.P finished. Sidney and others tells how fans reacted to the show ending so suddenly and hip-hop culture’s continuing relevance and evolution.

The Funky-Fresh Leaves

The Real Story of H.I.P H.O.P - France's Ground-Breaking Hip-Hop Show

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The mainly BAME neighbourhoods of Paris were places mainstream media didn't go and didn't talk about. So the local rapper's became the CNN of their communities

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Mohamed Ali was aware of the power of image. A genius boxer and king of communication, he surrounded himself with the best photographers of his time and attracted the interest of the press, shaping his own iconography. So how did Muhammad Ali win the fight to control his image?

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Tracks dives into the world of augmented reality, avatars and hologram performances. With ABBA and others pioneering avatar performance, is nostalgia pushing technology forward? Also in the programme: Synth pop French musician Oklou and German DJ, Boys Noize.

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Holo Life - Avatars and Holograms

Ever notice how utterly bizarre lions in medieval manuscripts look? It's like the artist had never been to a zoo or searched for 'lion' in Google images or something. Oh, wait...

Ever notice how utterly bizarre lions in medieval manuscripts look?

Why Are Medieval Lions So Strange?

Being a female rapper in Morocco is difficult in what is still a male dominated society. Krtas Nssa, voted best female rapper in Morocco in 2019, has chosen to live in Belgium. Khtek decided to stay in Rabat and change mentalities from inside the country.

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Being a female rapper in Morocco is difficult in what is still a male dominated society.

Morocco

Discover contemporary cycling culture in three European cities: Berlin, the unofficial capital of vintage racing bikes. London, where cycle-cafés also hold speed dating evenings and Amsterdam where cyclists stand out from the crowd with style.

Cycling as Lifestyle

Discover contemporary cycling culture in three European cities: Berlin, London and Amsterdam.

Biking Boom

In 2019, Les Indes galantes was performed at the Opera de la Bastille in Paris, hip hop style. This baroque opera, composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau, is an ode to colonial exoticism, and its reworking is the brainchild of Bintou Dembélé, the first black woman to choreograph a ballet at the Paris Opera.

In 2019, Les Indes galantes was performed at the Opera de la Bastille in Paris, hip hop style

Operatic Hip Hop: Dance Decolonised

In 1973 choreographer and dancer Carolyn Carlson brought an breath of American fresh air into the Paris Opera. In true hippy style she brought barefoot dancing, improvisation and a relaxed attitude. Not everyone was ready for change.

Carolyn Carlson: The Day They Danced Barefoot at the Paris Opera

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Faced with more frequent and violent natural disasters caused by climate change, animals and plants are adapting. Some species, such as sharks, which are able to sense the change in atmospheric pressure of a coming hurricane, move away from danger. Others learn to live with it, such as curlews, which use the hot ash from erupting volcanoes in Papua New Guinea to incubate their eggs. A surprising and inspiring documentary about nature's survivors.

How Animals and Plants Survive

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Natural Disasters

Behind his polite exterior lies a formidable leader with a ruthless character, ready to do anything to make China the world's leading power by the People’s Republic’s centenary in 2049. This well-documented portrait of the Chinese president gives an unprecedented insight into his politics and shows how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

A portrait of the Chinese president giving an unprecedented insight into his politics and showing how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

The New World of Xi Jinping

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From the Helsinki Opera

The Swedish dancer and choreographer Pär Isberg stages Astrid Lindgren’s favourite character for the Helsinki opera house.

Pippi Longstocking

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Meet two of Poland's oldest hippies: Juliusz (92) and Krystof (77)

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50 Years of FIP Radio

Sting at the Pantheon in Paris

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Present on the coast but also inland, dunes are in perpetual movement, creating extraordinary ephemeral landscapes.

Dunes: Europe's Moving Landscapes

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With Kirill Gerstein, Alan Gilbert and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

A special gala concert to celebrate five years of Hamburg’s fantastic new concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie.

5 Years of the Elbphilharmonie

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Vadum Minsyuk and Yuri Andreyev fled the war in eastern Ukraine to start a new life in the Chernobyl region,  The dangers of radiation are better than the rockets of war for them.

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Stuttgart Ballet performs ‘Onegin’, John Cranko’s acclaimed 1965 choreography of Alexander Pushkin’s novel. Classical ballet at its best in a version created for the cinema.

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Stuttgart Ballet performs ‘Onegin’, John Cranko’s acclaimed 1965 choreography of Alexander Pushkin’s novel.

Onegin

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Cult Film Locations

A journey through New Zealand used to great effect in the film adaptation of Tolkien’s classic.

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It's big business: in summer, hundreds of kilos of mushrooms are illegally picked every day in Romanian forests. They are then transported to Italy by intermediaries where they are sold at astronomical prices. Romanian authorities do nothing as the forests are looted unsustainably for their grey gold.

It's big business: in summer, hundreds of kilos of mushrooms are illegally picked every day in Romanian forests

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Iraq in 2022: Will the emerging nation succeed in resisting foreign influence and from Iran in particular? What does the future hold for the Kurdish autonomous region? And will the USA ever really leave?

Iraq in 2022: Will the emerging nation succeed in resisting influence from foreign powers, and from Iran in particular? 

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In recent years Oman has been opening up to western tourists. What awaits them is a land of mountains, deserts, fjords, and pristine beaches.

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Théâtre de Chaillot

The legendary American choreographer presents The Tree (Fragments of poetics on fire), an ode to nature and the elements.

Carolyn Carlson's The Tree

The United Arab Emirates includes the sci-fi like cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai with their breath taking towers and impressive beach resorts. It is also a land of expats with residents from over two hundred different nations.

The United Arab Emirates includes the sci-fi like cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai. It is also a land of expats with residents from over two hundred different nations.

United Arab Emirates

This documentary tells the story of German Expressionism in the context of colonial exploitation for the first time. When German artists Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein travelled to what was then the colony of German New Guinea and the Palau Islands in 1910, they wanted to revolutionise painting through inspiration from indigenous art and peoples. But their "South Sea paradise" had already been destroyed by the European colonial masters and their art would reveal the ideals and prejudice of early twentieth century Europe.

Expressionism and Colonialism

This documentary tells the story of German Expressionist art for the first time in the context of colonial exploitation. 