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Isabel Menzi's main job is a pilot for a Swiss airline. But she’s undergoing grueling training to achieve her dream of becoming a glacier pilot. These pilots are a vital lifeline to anyone who gets stranded in these traitorous mountains, but the flights themselves are death-defying.

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<p>Isabel Menzi's main job is a pilot for a Swiss airline. But she’s undergoing grueling training to achieve her dream of becoming a glacier pilot. These pilots are a vital lifeline to anyone who gets stranded in these traitorous mountains, but the flights themselves are death-defying.</p>

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Isabel dreams of becoming a glacier pilot, saving people in the Alps. But the training alone is death-defying

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Since 2004, the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao has been home to a dolphin therapy centre. Five dolphins help patients, young and old, to regain a taste for life. However, the effectiveness and seriousness of this treatment is criticised by some in the scientific community.

Dolphin Therapy in Curaçao

Since 2004, the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao has been home to a dolphin therapy centre.

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The Desert School

In the Camargue, telline clams, a popular shellfish species for its nutty taste, sees its survival threatened by intensive and illegal fishing.

Telline clams, a popular shellfish species for its nutty taste, are threatened by intensive and illegal fishing

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India, the cradle of Hinduism and Buddhism, is a land of spirituality. Babas are healers that claim to be able to cure all many of ills by invoking higher powers. But many denounce these superstitious practices, not least The Rationalists, an organisation of 10,000 members which works make Indians aware of fake healers.

India: Healers or Charlatans?

Rationalist Indians are working to educate the population against fake healers.

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In southern Thailand, the Koh Panyee village sits on stilts and even has a floating football field, built in the 1990s by a group of children. But over time, the ad hoc field has fallen into disrepair. But now the village is about to hold its first tournament in years and the field needs a major overhaul.

Thailand's Football Mad Island

In southern Thailand, the Koh Panyee village sits on stilts and even has a floating football field

Aquile di San Martino is the oldest mountaineering association in the Dolomites. Rocco is the oldest and most experienced active guide, and young Livio is in his last phase of mountain guide training. They are out on their last expedition before Livio is a fully-fledged 'aquile' - an eagle of the mountains. 

Young Livio is in his last phase of mountain guide training, and has just one last expedition to complete

Mountaineering in the Dolomites

Infamous drug baron Pablo Escobar had four hippos flown over from Africa to populate his very own zoo on his private estate in Columbia. After his death in 1993, the hippos escaped and have been colonising local waterways ever since. Conservationists are now waging a war against this invasive species which is harmful to the local ecosystem and highly dangerous to humans.

Infamous drug baron Pablo Escobar had four hippos flown over from Africa to populate his very own zoo on his private estate in Columbia. But then they escaped.

Pablo Escobar's Hippos

Morris dancing is one of England’s oldest traditions with a history that goes back at least 500 years. In that time, it has changed, fallen into obscurity and been revived. Today a new generation is emerging to keep the tradition alive.

An English Tradition

One of England’s oldest traditions, this peculiar dance has a history that goes back at least 500 years.

Morris Dancing

Recognisable by their distinctive snout, Tapirs were once common across North and South America. Today these beautiful mammals are threatened with extinction as humans encroach on their habitat. But in Costa Rica and Nicaragua biologists are devoting their lives to save the species.

Tapirs: Gardener of the Rainforest

Yapirs are threatened with extinction as humans encroach on their habitat. But in Costa Rica and Nicaragua biologists are devoting their lives to save the species.

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French author Raymond Radiguet was just 20 when he died from typhoid fever, cementing him as a tragic, scandalous figure in French literary lore. His novel The Devil in the Flesh is the shocking story of Marthe, whose husband had gone to the front to fight in World War One. She embarks on a torrid love affair with a 15 year old boy with terrible consequences. Published just five years after the Great War; it shocked and outraged France.

The Romance that Scandalised a Nation

The Devil in the Flesh is the shocking story of Marthe, who betrays her husband on the front with a 15 year old boy.

The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet

Why is femicide so prevalent across Europe? And what does it say about our societies? A look at the issue in Spain, France and Germany.

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70 years of career in front of and behind the camera and still active at 90, Clint Eastwood is a Hollywood legend. A look back at his unique career through a portrait that explores the complexity of the Eastwood myth.

The Last Legend

70 years of career in front of and behind the camera and still active at 90, Clint Eastwood is a Hollywood legend.

Clint Eastwood

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Dragons

In 2019, Morocco celebrated 20 years of King Muhammad VI's reign. He's managed to impose his own style through gradual reforms. But the country is also deeply divided and unequal. Though the King wishes to reform, he must face opposing forces of tradition and common law. The challenges are numerous and the threats are significant. He must constantly walk a political tightrope to keep revolution at bay.

The King must constantly walk a political tightrope to keep revolution at bay.

Mohammed VI, The King With Two Faces

The Ring of the Nibelung at the Staatsoper Berlin is conducted by Christian Thielemann who is standing in for the indisposed Daniel Barenboim. This is only the second time that Thielemann, one of the world’s great Wagnerians, has collaborated with the Staatskapelle Berlin and it will actually mark his debut at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden!

Berlin State Opera

Christian Thielemann to stand in for the Staatskapelle’s own Daniel Barenboim, who is indisposed.

Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold

Mapping the World turns towards Qatar, the small gulf state that is hosting the World Cup 2022. One of the richest countries on the planet due to vast oil and gas deposits, Qatar has invested heavily in soft power projects such as education and communication.

Mapping the World

Mapping the World turns towards Qatar, the small gulf state that is hosting the World Cup 2022. 

Qatar, World Cup Host

Church and sexual abuse of minors has long been an issue. But in addition to the paedophilia scandals, other revelations are shaking the Catholic Church: allegations from across the world of nuns being sexually abused by priests. In February 2019, Pope Francis acknowledged the abuse for the first time. This documentary gives an insight into an issue in the Catholic Church that has remained largely unreported.

All over the world priests are said to have sexually abused nuns. An investigation.

Sex Slaves Of The Catholic Church

An English couple travels to Italy. After their arrival in Naples, cracks start to show in their relationship. This film is one of Roberto Rossellini's best works, which inspired a generation of French New Wave filmmakers. The couple is played by Ingrid Bergman, who made four other films with Rossellini, and George Sanders.

An English couple travels to Italy. After their arrival in Naples, cracks start to show in their relationship.

Journey to Italy

Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau revisits Tchaikovsky's famous ballet Sleeping Beauty in a radical rereading from the Lyon Opera.

A Choreography by Marcos Morau

Sleeping Beauty

In the collective imagination, classical dance is about grace and lightness. But dancing is physically demanding and requires thousands of hours of training. By the time dancers reach their forties, they are close to retirement, but they have often reached the height of their artistic powers. Maturity holds great artistic potential, which increasingly calls into question the glorification of youth in dance.

Pushing the Limit

Professional dancers usually retire after the age of 40 but are often at the height of their artistic powers at this age. Should they dance on?

Dance On!

At the end of the world, three men face the Southern Ocean and its dangers. They leave their families behind and brave the cold and storms to join the isolated fishermen who live on the inhospitable islands around Cape Horn off the southern tip of Chile.

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At the end of the world, three men face the Southern Ocean and its dangers. 

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Joan Mitchell was a rare woman in post-war abstract art, born into a wealthy family in Chicago in 1925, who refused to theorise her works. Her artworks, which exude vibrant colour, seem to be able to cross the strata of the unconscious. Includes archive footage and interviews with those who knew her.    

A Woman in Abstraction

Portrait of a rare woman in post-war abstract art whose works are known for their vibrant use of colour. 

Joan Mitchell

Total is one of the five big oil multinationals with over 1,000 subsidiaries producing oil and gas in 130 countries. In 2021, they rebranded themselves as TotalEnergies and claim to want to become a serious player in renewable energy. But can oil giant really be a credible player in the green transition?

Anatomy of an Energy Multinational

Can the oil giant really be a credible player in the green transition?

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Die Walküre, the second part of The Ring of the Nibelung tetralogy at the Staatsoper Berlin, conducted by Christian Thielemann.

From the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

Part two of Richard Wagner’s monumental tetralogy in a new staging by Dmitri Tcherniakov

Richard Wagner: Die Walküre

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The story of the riot caused by the Clash at Ulster Hall, Belfast's concert hall.

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What is the secret to living longer and staying young? In an in-depth investigation, researchers decipher the mechanisms of ageing and explore new strategies to slow down or even reverse the ageing process.

Researchers decipher the mechanisms of ageing and explore new strategies to slow down or even reverse the ageing process.

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Summer 1946. During a family holiday by the sea, Boris Vian wrote a fasionable noir novel full of sex, violence and rage in just two weeks. His hero is Lee Anderson, a young mixed race man out to avenge the death of his black brother. I Spit on Your Graves by Vernon Sullivan, supposedly a black author, came out that autumn. Vian pretended to only be the translator of the work, in an act of cultural and literary blackface. The novel still challenges and provokes readers to this day.

I Spit on Your Graves by Vernon Sullivan

White French writer Boris Vian pretended to be a black American to sell his novel I Spit on Your Graves.

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Tensions between space-faring nations are growing and the arms race is in full swing. Are we on the brink of a space war?

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