Oum & M-Carlos

<p>Morrocan singer Oum El Ghaït Ben Essahraoui and saxophonist Carlos Mejias perform from their first joint album <i>Hals.</i></p>

Morrocan singer Oum El Ghaït Ben Essahraoui and saxophonist Carlos Mejias perform from their first joint album Hals.

German singer, composer and saxophonist Stephanie Lottermoser blends funk, pop and soul with her jazz roots. Her latest album, Hamburg, is full of catchy grooves and smooth arrangements and is a tribute to her adopted home city.

Elbjazz 2022

German singer, composer and saxophonist Stephanie Lottermoser blends funk, pop and soul with her jazz roots.

Stephanie Lottermoser

Fela Kuti's legacy lives on! His grandson Made Kuti and the Anglo-Nigerian musician Obongjayar perform at the Philharmonie de Paris to celebrate the father of Afrobeat.

Tribute to Fela Kuti

Made Kuti feat. Obongjayar

Femi Kuti and Asa celebrate the legacy of father of Afrobeat Fela Kuti at the Philharmonie de Paris.

Femi Kuti feat. Asa

Etienne Jaumet is both sound engineer and saxophonist and the name behind the mythic French band Zombie Zombie. Here he performs solo at the Saint-Eustache church in Paris.

36h Saint Eustache Festival (2013)

Etienne Jaumet is both sound engineer and saxophonist and the name behind the mythic French band Zombie Zombie. 

Etienne Jaumet

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A musical journey in three acts: Brazilian singer Chico César, Tunisian folk duo Ÿuma, and central African multi-instrumentalist Bibi Tanga perform at the Institute of the Arab World in Paris.

Musical Journeys

A musical journey in three acts: Brazilian singer Chico César, Tunisian duo Ÿuma and central African multi-instrumentalist Bibi Tanga perform at the Institute of the Arab World in Paris.

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Icelandic musician JFDR enchants the ARTE Concert Festival with tracks from her Brazil and New Dreams albums.

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JFDR

ARTE Concert Festival welcomes a legend, Damon Albarn. He performs his new album live: The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows.

ARTE Concert Festival 2021

ARTE Concert Festival welcomes a legend, Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn

British duo Jockstrap perform from the debut album I Love You Jennifer B.  in the cavernous surroundings of the Palais d’Iéna in Paris.

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Jockstrap at the Iéna Palace

Promising British breakthrough artist Olivia Dean performs at the ARTE Concert Festival 2022.

Olivia Dean

After a long collaboration with Modeselektor as Moderat, Apparat returns to making music alone. The result is ‘LP5’, set to be an ambient classic, performed live in the majestic surroundings of the Palais de la Découverte in Paris.

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The 40th edition of the MUSICA international contemporary music festival in Strasbourg honoured the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. For the occasion, the group Tres Coyotes, made up of her lifelong friends, composer Magnus Lindberg and cellist Anssi Karttunen, came together for a concert of improvised music with the legend John Paul Jones, bassist of the group Led Zeppelin.

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Grandbrothers hit the ground running with "Ezra was right", a debut song endorsed by Gilles Peterson. The duo then released their first album Dilation in 2015 to acclaim, followed two years later by Open. After a four-year break, Grandbrothers are back with a new gem of an album: All the Unknown.
Recorded March 14 2021 at Tournesol swimming pool, Bondy, France.

Grandbrothers hit the ground running with "Ezra was right", a debut song endorsed by Gilles Peterson. The duo then released their first album Dilation in 2015 to acclaim, followed two years later by Open. After a four-year break, Grandbrothers are back with a new gem of an album: All the Unknown.
Recorded March 14 2021 at Tournesol swimming pool, Bondy, France.

Grandbrothers Sessions

To celebrate 50 years of French radio station FIP, Sting gives a special performance in the monumental surroundings of the Pantheon in Paris.

50 Years of FIP Radio

Sting at the Pantheon in Paris

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France’s President Emmanuel Macron forced through an unpopular reform of the country’s pension system – and the French aren’t having it. We travel to Romania to find out about a possible law to ban gambling adverts, and look at how to protect Europeans from addictions.

France’s pension reform / Gambling / Photography

Protests erupt across France in response to the government’s pension reform bill, and we explore gambling across Europe.

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Highly influential indie rockers from Boston, famous for such tracks as Debaser and Where is my mind perform in Paris as part of a European tour for their latest album Doggerel.

Legendary and highly influential indie rockers perform in Paris as part of their European tour.

Pixies - Live at the Paris Olympia

At once seductive and dangerous, historical myth and male fantasy, the femme fatale represents both erotic promise and a death trap to the male observer. Conceived at the end of the 19th century in the works of Gustave Moreau, Franz von Stuck and Lovis Corinth, the femme fatale was completely reinvented in the 20th century by many female artists.

Seductive and dangerous, the figure of the femme fatale in art was completely reinvented in the 20th century.

The Femme Fatale in Art

Behind his polite exterior lies a formidable leader with a ruthless character, ready to do anything to make China the world's leading power by the People’s Republic’s centenary in 2049. This well-documented portrait of the Chinese president gives an unprecedented insight into his politics and shows how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

A portrait of the Chinese president giving an unprecedented insight into his politics and showing how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

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The decisive moment in 1618 that triggered the Thirty Years' War between Catholics and Protestants and changed the course of European history.

The decisive moment in 1618 that triggered the Thirty Years' War between Catholics and Protestants. 

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Many governments and organisations are wary of their employers using the social media TikTok. Does the Chinese company really serve Xi Jinping’s regime?

TikTok: A Chinese Threat?

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Tensions between Moldova and Russia are escalating over the breakaway region of Transnistria, an investigation on how prepared Europe is for another summer of wildfires, and a report from the Dissident Club in Paris.

Tensions in Moldova / WildFires in Europe

Tensions between Moldova and Russia are escalating with street protests and controversy over Russian secret documents.

Lyubov, which means love in Russian, is 80 years old and lives alone on the shores of Lake Baikal. She bears witness to this wonder of nature and possesses and unbreakable bond with the world’s deepest lake in Siberia. Her life here is hard, especially in winter, but she would not live anywhere else.

On the shores of Lake Baikal, an old woman lives alone in a beautiful place that is dear to her heart.

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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.

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

The Prigozhin Papers

At first glance, it's an image of innocence. A motherly milkmaid pouring out the milk in a kitchen, preparing snacks from our childhoods. But there's actually far more to her than meets the eye.

The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer

A famous image that at first glance looks totally innocent, but is in actual fact full of innuendo

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Working her way out of poverty as a sex worker all while supporting her family in Romania. That’s Andrada’s goal. She speaks confidently and openly about her work in a red-light district in Germany’s Ruhr region.  
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.

Portrait of a sex worker in the Ruhr region, Germany.  

Hard Life – I sell sex for money

The Greek government is under intense pressure to explain how February’s tragic train accident happened. The crash has sparked widespread anti-government protests. We take a broad view of the state of gender equality across Europe and find out about a pioneering law to help menopausal women in Spain.

Greece train crash / Gender equality / Photography

Massive protests engulf Greece after a deadly train crash, with the public pointing fingers at the government.

In El Salvador, gangs have terrorised the country for decades. But when Nayib Bukele was elected president in 2019, becoming the youngest head of state in Latin America, he vowed to take back control from the gangs by installing a state of emergency.

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The UK and the EU reach a new agreement on Northern Ireland, a focus on how bad fast fashion is for the environment, and the rise of literary influencers on Tiktok.

New Northern Ireland Agreement / Fast Fashion in Europe

The UK and the EU reach a new agreement on Northern Ireland and a focus on how bad fast fashion is for the environment, plus literary Tiktok,

A look at how we are getting better at managing and conserving water supplies in drier parts of our planet like southern Spain, Israel and the desert city of Las Vegas.

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 A look at how we are getting better at managing and conserving water supplies in drier parts of our planet like southern Spain, Israel and the desert city of Las Vegas.

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Trumpeter Enrico Rava and pianist Fred Hersh perform from their album, The Song Is You, at the Italian Piacenza jazz festival.

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Trumpeter Enrico Rava and pianist Fred Hersh perform from their album, The Song Is You, at the Italian azz festival.

Enrico Rava & Fred Hersch

The new Windsor agreement between the EU and the UK is hoped to improve relations and solve the Northern Ireland issue.

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Far from the metropolitan centre of Tel Aviv, Sderot show another side of Israel. One with high-levels of social deprivation and strong support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government’s controversial judicial reforms.

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Far from the metropolitan centre of Tel Aviv, Sderot is a different Israel with strong support for Netanjahu and high levels of social deprivation.

With all the religious wars, the 17th century was a tense time in Europe. And in art one theme caught everyone’s imagination: the Virgin Mary.

Assumption of the Virgin - Nicolas Poussin

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During the Franco dictatorship and afterwards, around 300,000 babies were stolen from the mothers, sold to childless couples using forged documentation. The Catholic Church is implicated in these terrible crimes.

Franco's Spain and the Catholic Church

During the Franco dictatorship and afterwards, around 300,000 babies were stolen from the mothers, sold to childless couples using forged documentation

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