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<p>Have you ever wondered why pop songs sometimes sound a little too familiar? Welcome to the world of pop-recycling where borrowing, sampling and interpolation are the order of the day. Featuring interviews with Placebo, Ed Sheeran, Charlie XCX and Lauv.</p>

Pop Music: The Great Recycling Business

Have you ever wondered why pop songs sometimes sound a little too familiar? Welcome to the world of pop-recycling. Featuring interviews with Placebo, Ed Sheeran, Charlie XCX and Lauv.

Increasing authoritarianism means that Russian citizens have to decide: Do they stay quiet and allow freedom to die? Or do they speak up and risk changing their lives for ever? Tracks East meets Russians that could not accept the Putin dictatorship and now live in exile.

Anti-Putin Russians

Tracks East meets Russians that could not accept the Putin dictatorship and now live in exile.

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Ronja von Ronne explores different types of relationships and questions the nature of love and our search for it. Can love exist between two people, or between three? And what of our love for ourselves, or indeed the unconditional love we hold for our pets?

Love! But how?

Ronja von Ronne explores different types of relationships and questions the nature of love.

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From pop to classical, musicians from all eras have been inspired by the visual arts. This episode explores Jane Zhang’s dialogue with European art history, Stephen Sondheim’s interest in the paintings of George Seurat and Beyoncé and Jay-Z take over the Louvre for their music video for Apeshit.

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Norwegian singer Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, known as Sigrid, is a rising stars. Her anthemic single Strangers has already over 66 million views on YouTube. The 25-year-old impresses with her strong voice and her catchy melodies.

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Norwegian singer Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, known as Sigrid, is a rising stars who impresses with her strong voice and her catchy melodies.

Sigrid

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

A new generation has come of age in Turkey that doesn’t want to live like their parents. On social media, on comedy stages and in rap music a counterculture is flourishing. Filmmaker Ufuk Cam goes to Turkey to uncover the local scene.

Turkey: The New Generation

A new counterculture is flourishing in Turkey. Filmmaker Ufuk Cam goes there to uncover the local scene.

Anne Lister was an openly lesbian nineteenth century noblewoman, with up to five lovers at the same time. She filled pages and pages of diaries with accounts of her sexual adventures and conquests, and even married another woman.

Britain's First Openly Gay Woman

Anne Lister was an openly lesbian nineteenth century noblewoman, with up to five lovers at the same time.

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We tie knots every day without a second thought, but it's all about context. Tying your shoelaces is nothing special, but that very same movement becomes charged with meaning when it is practised as part of Shibari. This Japanese art of tying someone into a tightly woven mesh of intricate knots and bindings started off as a form of punishment. But it is now a sexual fetish, and a craft, full of precision.

Bondage: The Ties That Free

The tradition of Shibari started off as a form of punishment. But it is now a sexual fetish, and a craft, full of precision.

For many, the Eurovision Song Contest is the chance for a Pan-European party. But it is also highly political, especially for countries in Eastern Europe. When Ukrainian group Kalush Orchestra won in 2022, it was a message of European solidarity against Russian aggression.

Eurovision: Pop and Politics

For many, the Eurovision Song Contest is the chance for a Pan-European party. But it is also highly political, especially for countries in Eastern Europe

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On the eve of her coronation, Elizabeth recalls how her father's execution of her mother Anne Boleyn left her a bastard. This unique opera series follows the life of the 'Virgin Queen' to the music of Gaetano Donizetti. Episode 1: The Coronation...

The Coronation

On the eve of her coronation, Elizabeth recalls how her mother's execution turned her into a bastard.

Gaetano Donizetti: Bastarda (1/6)

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu mounts a serious challenge to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s presidency as the election heads to a runoff. Next, we take a look at the problem of student housing across Europe, which is getting more expensive and harder to find. In our culture segment, the French play ‘Daddy’ delves into the seedy world of online grooming.

Turkey election / Student housing / Theatre

Turkey’s election heads for round two, while students across Europe are struggling to find affordable housing.

ARTE Europe Weekly

Last year, in response to the opposition's demand to send all Syrians back across the border, President Erdoğan declared, "We will never allow Kemal Bey (the opposition candidate) to send our Syrian brothers home!" But the popularity of the Turkish President has since declined, in the wake of a deep economic crisis and a lacklustre rescue response to February's lethal earthquake. Meanwhile, Turkish xenophobic sentiment has grown, with some Syrian neighbourhoods even becoming the target for looting and unrest. As he tries to retain his twenty-year grip on power, Erdoğan announced a plan for the "voluntary return" of one million Syrians last summer.

Turkey: Syrians in the Crosshairs of the Elections

Syrian refugees have become political pawns as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan tries to retain his twenty-year grip on power.

ARTE Reportage

Portrait of the German symbolist painter and sculptor Max Klinger (1857-1920). Often compared to Rodin, he was famous in his day for his erotic and tender sculptures.

Dream and Seduction

Portrait of the German symbolist painter and sculptor Max Klinger (1857-1920), often compared to Rodin.

Max Klinger

The many turquoise lakes and waterfalls in Plitvice National Park in Croatia are spectacular. This protected area is the refuge of 1,400 varieties of plants, some fifty species of mammals and 321 different butterflies. The park is located in the heart of one of the last primary forests in Europe, where the brown bear still roams. 

The Lakes of Plitvice in Croatia

The many turquoise lakes and waterfalls in Plitvice National Park in Croatia are spectacular

National Parks: A Macro View

Japan has just made an historic shift: In December, Tokyo announced a doubling of its defence budget by 2027, the first time this has happened since World War II. The Japanese are wary of China and North Korea.

Japan: Preparing for War

With the war in Ukraine meaning the end for cheap oil and gas imports from Russia, European demand for coal is on the rise. Multinationals are increasing activity in the largest coal mining region in South America with negative consequences for the environment and local communities.

Colombian Coal for Europe

With European demand increasing, coal mining in Columbia is harming the environment and local communities.

Visiting her childhood sweetheart, Elizabeth is caught up in a love triangle that reminds her of a past situation, when Jane Seymour was the love rival of Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn. This unique opera series follows the life of the Virgin Queen to the music of Gaetano Donizetti. Episode 2: The Royal Progress...

The Royal Progress

Elizabeth is entangled in a love triangle that reminds her of a past situation...

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Record-breaking droughts have hit Spain forcing the country to take emergency measures. We look at the wider picture regionally where droughts are occurring at an alarming frequency causing severe water shortages. Meanwhile, since the war began, 8.2 million Ukrainians have fled to the EU. Two years later, Arte Europe weekly learns why many are asking whether to stay or return home. Lastly, we turn to Serbia, where a handful of female comic book artists are challenging the status quo in their field.

Euro drought crisis / Ukrainian refugees / Serbian comic book artists

Europe experiences severe water shortages caused by drought, while Ukrainian refugees in EU consider returning home.

The Arrabida Natural Park, south of Lisbon, is stunning. The Sado estuary welcomes thousands of migratory birds as winter approaches. But the real treasure of Arrábida is underwater: 1,500 animal and plant species live in its waters, protected since 1998.

Arrabida, Portugal

The Arrabida Natural Park, south of Lisbon, is stunning

Melody Gardot performs her album Sunset in the Blue, from the Radio France studios accompanied by a trio of musicians and 40 instrumentalists from the in-house orchestra.

Melody Gardot: From Paris with Love

“When I sneeze, my neighbour says ‘bless you’,” Patrycia Łepkowska laughs. The 23-year-old student lives in a micro-apartment in Warsaw’s “Hong Kong” housing estate. Many of the tiny flats in this high-rise are dark and expensive. But for most tenants, there is no other alternative. This is what it’s like to live in a micro-flat.   

This programme by German channel ARD is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Living, cooking and showering in 17m2. A housing shortage is revolutionising Poland’s real estate market.

Poland - Living in a micro-flat

An exclusive investigation into the Russian paramilitary organisation Wagner, headed by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. 2,500 documents were leaked from Prigozhin’s servers by anti-Putin hackers, shedding light on this secretive group of mercenaries, a key element in the war in Ukraine.

Data Sources

An exclusive investigation into the Russian paramilitary organisation Wagner, headed by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. 

The Prigozhin Papers

They are waging a systematic war against education. More than two and a half million school children in Burkina Faso currently no longer have classes. For the country with its 20 million inhabitants, this is an enormous number of children who can no longer exercise their right to schooling because Islamist terrorists consider education harmful.

Burkina Faso: The War against School

More than two and a half million school children in Burkina Faso are not in school due to Islamic terrorism.

The Ambiguous Dance Company presents its cult hit Body Concert, a riotous sprint through dance history.

Théâtre Paul Eluard - Bezons

Ambiguous Dance Company: Body Concert

A concert dedicated to Canadian film composer Howard Shore, famous for his scores to Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and David Cronenberg’s The Fly. With the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

The Lord of the Rings

A concert dedicated to Canadian film composer Howard Shore, famous for his scores to Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and David Cronenberg’s The Fly.

Howard Shore Weekend

Founder of the English Baroque Soloists, the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre révolutionnaire et romantique, John Eliot Gardiner is not only one of the greatest conductors of his time, he is also a gentleman farmer. When he is not conducting, he looks after the cows and sheep on his organic farm in Dorset, some 200 kilometres from London. Portrait of a revered musician, a pioneer of historically informed performance, as he celebrates his eightieth birthday.

The Art of Conducting

Portrait of a revered conductor and pioneer of historically informed performance, as he celebrates his eightieth birthday.

John Eliot Gardiner

The Days Off festival invites former Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker to revisit classic French pop songs from the 1960s, tracks immortalised in the Wes Anderson film, The French Dispatch.
Live from the Philharmonie de Paris, 2 July 2022.

Days Off 2022

Former Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker revisits classic French pop songs from the 1960s, tracks immortalised in the Wes Anderson film, The French Dispatch.
Live from the Philharmonie de Paris, 2 July 2022.

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