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America’s final frontier, California was the birthplace of bodybuilding. The beach became a show-ground for the first musclemen in pleasure-seeking southern California.

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The Story of Muscle

Getting Ripped

<p>America’s final frontier, California was the birthplace of bodybuilding. The beach became a show-ground for the first musclemen in pleasure-seeking southern California.</p>

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The beach became a show-ground for the first musclemen in pleasure-seeking southern California.

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Body building has been around for over a century, but more as something to stare at rather than aspire to. But now, aesthetics have changed and bulky is beautiful.

Getting Ripped (1-10)

Body builders used to be featured in Victorian freakshows, but now, bulk is beautiful

Strong Is the New Skinny

Bodybuilders: Narcissus, charmed by his own reflection? Or Sisyphus, condemned to labour towards a goal that is forever out of reach?

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Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall...

Bodybuilding challenges traditional notions of gender. Are bodybuilders on the podium highly sexualised or asexual instead?

Getting Ripped (3-10)

Gender and Muscle

Why, after a long days work, do we go to the gym to carry on working? Is the gym the factory of our times?

Getting Ripped (4/10)

Working Harder!

Bodybuilders get ever bigger bodies that look as if they could burst. What is behind the bigger is better mantra?

Getting Ripped (5/10)

XXXL - Bigger is Better

Guns of steel, solid as a rock, hard as iron: Bodybuilders are the ideal embodiment of man in the Industrial Age, man as machine.

Getting Ripped (6/10)

Man as Machine

Muscles were central to the Hollywood dream machine from the start present in anything from biblical epics to superhero movies.

Getting Ripped (7/10)

Hollywood: Factory of Muscles

Is the cult of the body and muscles a right-wing affair? Or is bodybuilding a truly democratic sport that swings towards social democracy? From fascists to communists, everyone has their muscle-ideology.

Getting Ripped (8/10)

From fascists to communists, everyone has their muscle-ideology.

Muscle Politics

How do bodybuilders deal with growing old and the potential loss of strength and muscle mass that it brings? With determination and focus, they carry on training.

Getting Ripped (10/10)

How do bodybuilders deal with growing old and the potential loss of strength and muscle mass that it brings?

Bodybuilding in Old Age

Getting Ripped - The Story of Muscle

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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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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...

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Meet two of Poland's oldest hippies: Juliusz (92) and Krystof (77) have been living on the shores of Lake Solina, in almost total isolation and surrounded by nature and animals, for decades. But life in the middle of nowhere is increasingly hard on their aging bodies. 

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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.

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A region of Europe with a shared experience of communism and USSR dominance, Eastern Europe today is characterised by nations with diverse cultural and political identities.

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Lowriding is a passion for cars where owners customise their vintage vehicles to look cool gliding along the Los Angeles boulevards. For long a male-only pursuit, more and more women are getting into it lowriding.

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To celebrate 50 years of French radio station FIP, Sting gives a special performance in the monumental surroundings of the Pantheon in Paris.

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Sting at the Pantheon in Paris

Saudi Arabia is reputed to be one of the richest and most conservative nations on the planet. But how do its citizens live today?

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ME/CFS – A Misunderstood Illness

 An investigation into little understood illness focusing on the experiences of three individuals suffering from CFS: Ralf, Sonja and Aileen.

Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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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The Indian state of Sikkim has banned pesticides completely, allowing only organic farming. The results: healthy food and healthy soils.

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Vadum Minsyuk and Yuri Andreyev fled the war in eastern Ukraine in 2014. In search of a new beginning, they decided to start a new life in the Chernobyl region, close to the exclusion zone from the 1986 nuclear disaster. The dangers of radiation are better than the rockets of war.

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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?

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Iraq - A Sovereign Country?

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

Faced with more frequent and violent natural disasters caused by climate change, animals and plants are adapting. A surprising and inspiring documentary about nature's survivors.

Natural Disasters

Pippi Longstocking, the superhumanly strong redhead with pigtails and freckles, conquers the world of classical ballet. The Swedish dancer and choreographer Pär Isberg stages Astrid Lindgren’s favourite character from the Villa Villekulla for the Helsinki opera house. The ballet music is the work of Georg Riedel and Stefan Nilsson.

From the Helsinki Opera

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

Pippi Longstocking

A journey through Middle-earth, or rather New Zealand. Peter Jackson used the natural beauty of his native land to great effect in his film adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien’s classic trilogy. A tour through locations for the Shire, the Misty Mountains and Mordor… 

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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.

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Carolyn Carlson and her company bid farewell to each other in a final creation. On the Chaillot theatre stage in Paris, the legendary choreographer and performer presents The Tree (Fragments of poetics on fire), an ode to nature and the elements.

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A special gala concert to celebrate five years of Hamburg’s fantastic new concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie, opened on January 11 2017. The NDR Elbphilharmonie orchestra performs works by Adams, Adès and Salonen with conductor Alan Gilbert and pianist Kiril Gerstein.

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.

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How does sex, identity and self-expression interlace? We explore this muli-faceted question through the lives of multiple Berliners, starting with four voguing performers who've created a safe space for themselves, and an asexual model who posts sexy pictures online. Next we visit a hypersexual couple and discover puppy play with Marion and Leo.

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How does sex, identity and self-expression interlace? We explore this muli-faceted question through the lives of multiple Berliners

Embrace Your Sexuality!

The three smalles states on the Persian Gulf could not be more different: Qatar is the richest country on Earth, conservative, and attached to its traditions whereas Bahrain is cosmopolitan and liberal. Kuwait is particularly pristine with some of the best food in Arabia.

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