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.

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

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

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

How does hope emerge? And what form does it take in art?

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

Marking the opening of the 60th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival, RAYE invites a host of international pop stars to join her on stage for an evening of music.

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

How can we have more fulfilling sex? Ronja von Rönne meets couples and singles who have reinvented their sexuality.

After years of moving towards a cashfree society, Europe is weighing up the risks.

What does hair symbolise in the visual arts, from the 15th century to the present day?

Nick Cave brings the full force of his live performance, filled with mystical fervour and passionate celebration, to Paris.

British band bring Me The Horizon bring their power metalcore to the main stage at Hellfest.

An old man swims in the sea. As he moves through the water, memories resurface... 

With growing incursions since the start of the war in Ukraine, the EU hopes to implement an anti-drone shield.

In the 17th century, many Dutch women painters excelled at depicting the natural world in their art.