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<p>Whether it's extreme sports, stand-up comedy, breakdancing or music, disability isn’t an obstacle to pursuing your passion. Tracks' meets Aaron Fotheringham, Dergin Tokmak and Pone to understand the power of pop culture in empowering 'invisible' minorities.</p>

Disability and Pop Culture

Tracks' meets Aaron Fotheringham, Dergin Tokmak and Pone to understand the power of pop culture in empowering 'invisible' minorities.

In September 2022 the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody set off nationwide protests in Iran. One year on from this civil unrest, Tracks East meets the ultra-connected younger generation who demonstrate their opposition to the government through art and music.

Iranian Women Resist

Tracks East meets the ultra-connected younger generation who demonstrate their opposition to the government through art and music.

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Denmark is one of the European countries with the happiest children. Why is this? And to what extent does childhood lay the foundations for our adult lives? Twist goes to Copenhagen to investigate and meets singer Lukas Forchhammer, who grew up in the hippy autonomous community of Christiania and Psychotherapist Iben Dissing Sandahl, whose book on why Danish children are content became a bestseller.

Childhood's Enduring Impact

Denmark is one of the European countries with the happiest children. Why is this? Twist goes to Copenhagen to investigate

Twist

Jan explores all the different ways of being alone. He searches for gold in a field with Wolfgang Herkt and his metal detector. After long hours of solo searching, Wolfgang says: "Being alone helps with difficult decisions because there are no distractions." The author Kathrin Weßling is the opposite: she communicates 24/7, writes books and constantly posts to social media. But loneliness lingers... not least of all for refugees. Evgeniy Zamyatin, who works as a lawyer for Alexei Navalny's anti-corruption foundation, fled to Berlin, far from friends and family.

Face Loneliness!

Jan explores all the different ways of being alone.

Streetphilosophy

The American director Peter Sellars was invited to the Salzburg Festival. For the 2017 edition he staged The Clemency of Titus by Mozart.

Carte Blanche to Peter Sellars

Square Artiste: Peter Sellars

The British band Jungle represents neo-soul with broken rhythms that stay extremely danceable. They copied the sound and style from legendary artists such as Daft Punk, Chet Baker and Thom Yorke. The result is a rich, sun-drenched sound. Jungle performs for ARTE in the Paris Metro.

Jungle performs for ARTE in the Paris Metro. The British duo will play their greatest hits.

Jungle: Passengers

Yetundey is originally from Leipzig and mixes styles and influences. Layla Boe wants to make the German language smoother in her music.

Germany

Girlhood - Women in Rap (1/4)

Iranian-Dutch singer-songwriter Sevdaliza mixes electronic, indie, trip-hop and r'n'b. In Passengers, she performs from her latest album Shabrang at the Arts et Métiers Museum in Paris.

Passengers

Sevdaliza at the Arts et Métiers Museum

With the war in Ukraine, the spectre of a new food crisis is haunting Africa. Tracks East witnesses an artistic performance that revives the trauma of the great famine that decimated Ukraine in the 1930s. Ukrainian farmers working the land today are coming under Russian machine-gun fire. Finally, we head for Nairobi, where the distant war is weighing heavily on local people’s wallets.

Food: A Weapon of War

Tracks East witnesses an artistic performance that revives the trauma of the great famine that decimated Ukraine in the 1930s. 

In many countries, the state wants to control your body: the clothes you wear, your facial hair and for women, even their pregnancies. Tracks East meets Polish journalist and mixed martial-arts fighter Maja Staśko to find out the situation in Poland and the world.

This is my body!

Polish journalist and MMA  fighter Maja Staśko find out how governments try to control their citizens bodies
 

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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

The tiny island of Lampedusa saw its population double when thousands of migrants arrived by boat in September. The Italian government has threatened to deport arrivals and is looking to the rest of Europe for support. But EU states are divided on how to respond.

Europe’s migration policy is put to the test – again

The EU struggles to find a coherent response to thousands of people arriving on Italy’s shores.

ARTE Europe Weekly

Ten years after Gaddafi's fall, what state is Libya in? There's the official government based in Tripoli that is recognised by the international community, and rival forces controlled by General Khalifa Haftar.

Libya: A Global Power Struggle

Ten years after Gaddafi's fall, what state is Libya in?

Mapping the World

August 19, 2014. Nicki Minaj releases the music video for Anaconda. The message is clear: down with the dictatorship of skinny pop stars and make way for XXL shapes and XXX speech. Provocative? Maybe. Feminist? Definitely.

Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj says down with the dictatorship of skinny pop stars, and make way for XXL shapes and XXX speech

TAPE

Helen Mirren, the most versatile of British actresses, has played diverse roles in her long and distinguished career, from sexually charged Shakespearian roles to secret agents to Queen Elizabeth II. This documentary paints a portrait of a strong woman, guided by her feminist convictions as a performer and in her private life

The most versatile of British actresses has played diverse roles in her long and distinguished career including royalty.

Helen Mirren - Queen of Actresses

At first glance, nothing connects Lil Wayne to Donald Trump: one is an African-American rapper from the poor neighborhoods of New Orleans, the other a rich white heir turned President of the United States. And yet without Donald Trump, Lil Wayne could have gone to prison for up to a decade. TAPE tells you all about this surprising relationship.

Lil Wayne

Without Donald Trump, Lil Wayne could have gone to prison for over a decade

Spain’s historic win in the Women’s World Cup was overshadowed by scandal after Luis Rubiales’ non-consensual kiss of striker Jenni Hermoso. It’s had a ripple effect across sport in Europe, shining a light on deep-rooted inequality, from pay gaps to poor work conditions and cases of sexual assault.

Football’s #MeToo moment highlights sexism in European sport

Luis Rubiales’ forced kiss on Spain player Jenni Hermoso has sparked a reckoning over sexism in sport.

Two years after the ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan, what is happening in Nagorno-Karabakh? We report on the disputed territory, a militarised zone that is now under Azerbaijan's control, and on the displaced people of Karabakh in Baku.

Back to Karabakh

Two years after the ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan, what is happening in Nagorno-Karabakh? 

ARTE Reportage

Puerto Rico is an "unincorporated territory" of the US, its residents live between two cultures, and not all Boricuas, as the islanders call themselves, necessarily identify as Americans. They enjoy life in their own way and do their best to confront life's challenges.

A look at life and art on the smallest island in the Greater Antilles.

Puerto Rico: The Rhythm of the Caribbean

How is it possible for one of the world’s poorest countries to develop nuclear weapons? 

North Korea: Kim's Men

It is banned in the European Union and yet Burmese teak is still imported. How is that possible? Data Sources goes on the trail of the illegal trade in teak from Myanmar.

Traffic in Burmese Teak

It is banned in the European Union and yet Burmese teak is still imported. How is that possible? 

Data Sources

Celebrated violinist David Garrett gives an unforgettable concert at the ancient theatre in Taormina, Sicily with a selection of rearranged works by Dvorak, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Vivaldi and Fritz Kreisler.

Sicilian Concert at Taormina's Teatro Antico

Renowned violinist David Garrett gives an unforgettable concert at the ancient theatre of Taormina in Sicily.

David Garrett

How do you become a famous DJ? What are the essential skills you need to acquire? Twist follows DJs David Guetta, Amelie Lens, Alle Farben and Lovra around clubs and festivals, and asks them about their career paths and their views on the profession.

How to Become a Superstar DJ

Twist follows DJs David Guetta, Amelie Lens, Alle Farben and Lovra around clubs and festivals, and asks them about their career paths and their views on the profession.

Since the 1990s, total insect biomass has declined by 75 percent. The rapid decline affects all food chains: fish and birds can no longer find enough to eat and are becoming fewer and fewer. Studies show that neonicotinoids used in pesticides aren't just destroying the insect popualtion, but also affect human health.

Since the 1990s, total insect biomass has declined by 75 percent

How Chemical Giants Destroyed our Ecosystem

Metallica's 35-year career is still going strong: they are timeless. To celebrate their latest album, 
Hardwired…to Self-Destruct, TAPE revisits the history of a music group that became a global movement. 

Metallica's 35-year career is still going strong: they are timeless

TAPE: Metallica

In October 2022, residents of the pretty French mountain town of Rumilly were shocked to discover that their drinking water was contaminated with forever chemicals. The supply lines for the town's 16,000 residents were closed. Mayor Christian Heison had never heard of these toxic PFAS before, but for months - maybe years - he and his community had been unwittingly drinking them.

The pretty French mountain town of Rumilly is a forever chemical hotspot.

Re: Forever Chemicals in French Drinking Water

Performing under a dome with exceptional acoustics, inexhaustible showman Jamie Cullum gives a spellbinding solo concert, mixing up genres from jazz to rock and pop.

Piano solo in Versailles

Jamie Cullum gives a spellbinding concert alone at the piano, mixing up jazz, rock and pop sounds.

Jamie Cullum

About 500,000 to 800,000 people in Germany are addicted to porn and many are no longer in control of their lives due to their sexual disorder. The problem is a taboo subject. But sex sells, especially on the internet: In Germany alone, online porn providers turn over an estimated 4.5 billion euros a year.

When Pleasure turns into Pain

About 500,000 to 800,000 people in Germany are addicted to porn with severe consequences for their lives and relationships.

Re: Porn Addiction

In the 1990s Marilyn Manson got a kick out of upsetting American society. His videos and stage shows were designed to provoke and force the USA to face its cultural contradictions.

In the 1990s Marilyn Manson got a kick out of upsetting American society.

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