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<p>Carlotta had an interesting, full life. But then the virus came along and her days were all the same, stuck in her flat with no new experiences. Boredom can lead to melancholy but can it push you to make your life better?</p>

Boredom

Boredom can lead to melancholy but can it push you to make your life better?

Illnesses, accidents, assaults ... Faced with traumatic events, a force within us allows us to overcome and move forward: resilience. Far from being an innate characteristic, it is a capacity that we can work on.

Resilience

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A man has enough sperm. Or so you might think - up to 600 million per ejaculation. And yet there is cause for concern: several studies have shown a significant decline in sperm count, especially in Western countries, in the last 50 years. Are we heading towards a sperm crisis?

Is There a Male Fertility Crisis?

Several studies have shown a significant decline in sperm count in the last 50 years. Are we heading towards a sperm crisis?

42: The Answer to Almost Everything

Incorrect diagnoses, inappropriate treatments and persistent shortcomings in care. The medical field, whose benchmark remains the male body, seems to neglect the physiological particularities of women. Focus on the alarming gender gap in healthcare.

The medical field, whose benchmark remains the male body, seems to neglect the physiological particularities of women.

Are Women Ill Differently?

Is it possible to modify our genes? Science has made major advancements, such as human DNA sequencing and the CRISPR/Cas9 techniques. While it has become possible to cure genetic diseases and preventively treat predispositions to certain pathologies, these innovations are not without risks and are likely to be misused.

Gene Editing and the Spectre of Eugenics

Agree to Disagree!

Food intolerances are currently a hot topic - evident from the fully stocked shelves of so-called substitute products in supermarkets. Lactose, fructose, and gluten have become taboo for many consumers. Are these substances truly so intolerable, and are the respective alternative foods actually healthier?

Food Intolerance: A Modern Malady

More and more people complain of digestive disorders related to gluten, lactose, or fructose.

Fear is a universal emotion that is key to our survival. But what happens if you are paralysed by fear? Jens speaks about his struggles with panic attacks that can overwhelm him and therapist Remy uses hypnosis to treat patients with phobias and panic attacks.

Fear

Fear is a universal emotion that is key to our survival. But what happens if you are paralysed by it?

With the pandemic many people are losing their libido. Manuel and Caroline speak frankly about how they feel about desire and their sexual drives in lockdown.

Desire

The pandemic has provided us with a painful reminder of how important physical contact is for our mental well-being. Individuals share their experiences of physical isolation.

Need a Hug?

The pandemic has provided us with a painful reminder of how important physical contact is for our mental well-being.

With social media artist Marque feels that she can keep in contact with her friends scattered around the world. But is too much social media feeding our anxieties and our fear of missing out?

FOMO - Wait for Me!

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After the end of the Second World War, American Major Steve Arnold is tasked with finding out which side the famous conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had decided to stay in Nazi Germany, was on. Was the legendary figure of classical music a Nazi?

The Furtwängler Case

Was famous conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, for or against the Nazis? Feature film biopic.

Taking Sides

In April 1974, left-wing factions in the Portuguese military staged a coup against the authoritarian regime which had been in power for half a century. The uprising was largely peaceful and went down in history as the Carnation Revolution. But the path to a democratic Portugal was not easy and not without obstacles.

Carnations against Dictatorship

On the night of 24 April 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the Salazar dictatorship, paving the way for a democratic Portugal.

Portugal

On 4 April 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty was signed, enshrining the creation of NATO just four years after the end of the Second World War. The primary objective of this military alliance of twelve European and North American countries was to prevent war in Europe and to counter the expansion of the Soviet bloc. Since its creation in the Cold War, the organisation has grown from 12 to 31 member states - including several former Eastern Bloc nations. Weakened by its turbulent history, NATO is facing a growing number of challenges: the difficulty of coordinating its members, the logistical obstacles in the event of an attack on European soil, and the threat, raised by Donald Trump, of an American withdrawal, at a time when European defence is almost entirely dependent on the United States.

A look back at the turbulent history of the military alliance facing unprecedented challenges in the face of Putin's Russia.

Putin, NATO, and Europe

Diwa is only 11 years old. She is one of the thousands of victims of a crime that is hardly reported on in Europe but which is causing havoc in the Philippines. She was raped by her parents, live on the internet, to satisfy the desires of foreign paedophiles who paid for the spectacle of her rape, giving instructions from a distance.

Philippines: Child Rape Online

Thousands of children in the Philippines have been abused, live on the internet. Report on a shocking crime.

ARTE Reportage

A joyous return to the stage for Zach Condon and his European folk-focussed indie project Beirut. This is music as imagined landscape, a romantic sweep of Europe's past through the eyes of an American troubadour. From his Balkan-tinged debut in 2006, through a bohemian France dreamed up on 2007's The Flying Cup Club and on towards the Dutch and Mexican influences of his later material, Beirut is clearly the work of a singular vision while remaining hauntingly familiar, a half-remembered dream of a past life. Latest album Hadsel was inspired by a short time spent exiled in northern Norway, an emotional return to form released in 2023.

Live in Berlin's Tempodrom

After some time in the wilderness, Zach Condon leads his romantic indie-folk project to a triumphant return to the stage.

Beirut

Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979.  This means that 1 in 5 Chinese men will not be able to find a partner in five years’ time.

Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979. 

China: Men without Women

In Groß-Umstadt, a small town in the Oberwald region of central Germany, a community of Portuguese workers arrived in the 1960s. Legend has it that a young Portuguese man was travelling through the area in 1962 when his motorbike broke down… and he never left, becoming the first Portuguese person to settle there. This documentary looks at the immigrant story between Portugal and Germany.

The story of post-war Portuguese migration to the small town of Groß-Umstadt in central Germany.

The First Portuguese in a German Town

On 1 May 2004, the European Union welcomed ten new members, including eight countries from Central and Eastern Europe. This massive enlargement changed overnight the dynamics of the EU. Twenty years on, how has this enlargement in the East shaped the new member states and the EU as a whole?

EU enlargement into eastern Europe was a major geopolitical moment in 2004. A focus on the European Union's biggest decision and its consequences.

EU Enlargement: Twenty Years On

When Mark Zuckerberg launched the metaverse it was going to revolutionise our lives. Except it didn’t. How Zuck made the embodied internet so uninspiring.

Nothing Else Metas

The metaverse was supposed to revolutionise our lives. Except it didn’t. And it was really uninspiring.

Super Fails

For one of Europe’s smallest countries, Slovakia has a lot to offer: Unspoilt nature, a host of castles, a unique inland delta on the Danube and countless hot springs. An invitation to discover a beautiful land in the heart of Europe.

For one of Europe’s smallest countries, Slovakia has a lot to offer: Unspoilt nature, a host of castles, a unique inland delta on the Danube and countless hot springs.

Surprising Slovakia

This investigation reveals how people smugglers are using social media to encourage migrants to cross the English Channel illegally. In their TikTok videos, smugglers promote their services and compete with untenable promises: "crossing in just 3 hours", "1000% safe crossing", charging between €1,700 and €4,000 per person to take the perilous journey to reach Britain.

TikTok and People Smugglers

How people smugglers are using social media to encourage migrants to cross the English Channel illegally and getting rich in the process.

Data Sources

A major luxury brand equipping children with BDSM teddies in its new collection? Not a good idea.

Balenciaga

ALA.NI, Patrice, Celeste, Kareen Guiock Thuram, Kham Meslien and Youn Sun Nah celebrate the legacy of Nina Simone at the Pantheon in Paris. Six artists, six emotional perspectives on the work of this timeless artist.

Paris Pantheon

Six contemporary artists celebrate the legacy of Nina Simone.

Homage to Nina Simone

Last month, saw the hottest March on record reminding us that the race against the clock to prevent climate catastophe rages on. But is Europe doing enough to stave off a deepening climate crisis? This ARTE Europe Weekly, we go to Europe's top courtrooms where legal battles are changing the course of climate change.

Climate protection is now a human right

Climate inaction violates human rights according to a top EU court. But how seriously is Europe taking the climate crisis?

ARTE Europe Weekly

Sacred music meets the theatricality of opera in Handel's oratorio Messiah, here conducted by Laurence Equilbey and performed by the Insula Orchestra, Polish artist Jakub Józef Orliński and the Chœurs accentus at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival.

Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival

Laurence Equilbey conducts Handel's "Messiah" at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival.

Handel's Messiah

In 2022, Salman Rushdie narrowly survived an assassination attempt by an Islamic extremist. This year's winner of the German Publishers' Peace Prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair, we interview the acclaimed writer in New York. Also in the programme: Russian journalist Elena Kostyutchenko, Slovenian authors Pia Prezelj and Suzana Tratnik, and a focus on the graphic novel “Woman, Life, Freedom" by Marjane Satrapi.

Salman Rushdie and Freedom of Speech

Interview in New York with the acclaimed British writer, this year's winner of the German Publishers' Peace Prize.

Twist

Noetic, Faun and Boléro: Three elements, three visions, three journeys through dance. Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's show offers a profound reflection on our intimate connection with the world around us. From putting mathematics in movement to Ravel's Boléro as a dance of death, Cherkaoui transcends the boundaries of the stage to offer us a unique philosophical perception of the world.

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui with Damien Jalet and Marina Abramovic

Mathematics in motion, the "Bolero" as a dance of death: Plunge into Cherkaoui's philosophical vision of the world.

Elements

Eminent jazz singer Dianne Reeves has won several Grammy Awards, and performed alongside luminaries like Harry Belafonte and Sérgio Mendes. Her appearances in the series Sex and the City and the George Clooney film Good Night, and Good Luck brought her inimitable voice to an even wider audience. The arrangements for the Frankfurt Radio Big Band here are by John Beasley.

With the Frankfurt Radio Bigband

Jazz icon Dianne Reeves performs a selection of popular American songs backed by the Frankfurt Radio Big Band.

Dianne Reeves

A quiet corner of northern Europe is the epicentre of a violent world of gangs and traffickers. With drugs flooding in, Europe is on course to become the world’s biggest cocaine market. The Mocro Maffia is just one of the powerful criminal networks operating in the Netherlands, northern France and Belgium that is behind a trail of addiction, money and contract killings. In this episode we dive into Europe’s drug trade.

The underground world of Europe’s drug trade

A secretive Moroccan mafia organisation is behind a new influx of cocaine flowing through Europe’s ports.

It's 2021, you're sitting in front of your PS4, the download is almost complete. And it's finally here: Cyberpunk 2077. Only 10 years in development by a renowned studio, incredible promises and 8 million pre-orders. What could possibly go wrong...?

The Worst Release in Gaming History

Only 10 years in development by a renowned studio, incredible promises and 8 million pre-orders. What could possibly go wrong...?

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