42: The Answer to Almost Everything

Is it possible for us to spend less time asleep and enjoy extra waking years for leisure and work?

Sleeping well makes us happy and contented. But how can we get a good night’s sleep? Ronja von Rönne tries to find out.

As early as 2025, more tasks will be performed by robots and artificial intelligence than by human beings. 

Children and young people look to adults as role models, usually their parents, but they also are influenced by their peers.

Does wealth make you happy? Or maybe true wealth is having nothing at all?

How should we know which job to choose? And do dream jobs really make us happy? Ronja von Rönne investigates.

Ex-footballer turned anti-poverty activist Neven Subotić discusses the books that changed his life.

Children often experience their first feelings of love at nursery age.  What does it feel like for children? 

Black holes can tell us a lot about the universe. But could they hold the key to understanding our world? 

From Antiquity to today’s social media, this documentary looks at the history male domination. Why are we still in a machocracy?

Mozart’s most famous opera from the Aix-en-Provence festival with a star-studded cast.

An odyssey through Iran in search of a lost father for one Tehrani teenager and her friends.

Wagner’s mammoth opera= cycle is concentrated into a grand symphonic poem 150 years after its first performance.

Minimalists want to cut down on worldly possessions. But does living with less things make them happier?

Extreme weather events are becoming increasingly frequent as a result of climate change. 

With one of his paintings, Gerhard Richter made an intervention into a long-running an passionate debate: Which way round should you put the toilet roll?

It seems that scientist have proven that the enigmatic gaze of the Mona Lisa does not follow you as you move around the room. So why did we think that in the first place?

Audio pornography leaves room for the imagination while arousing the listener with erotic stories

They fly tiny FPV drones for fun around urban environments: Tracks went to meet people who do 'guerilla whooping'.