42: The Answer to Almost Everything

Parasites get a bad rap: they can make us sick or even kill us.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is struggling to contain Mpox with a new and deadly variant causing havoc.

It could be a groundbreaking cancer therapy: a personalised mRNA vaccination.

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

Rather than leaving the cannabis market to unscrupulous dealers, should the state legalise and regulate the drug?

Could our economy be organised differently and even shrink?

Love may drive you crazy - but it also keeps you alive.

All living beings stop growing at some point. The global economy is different: it just keeps growing. Is a world without economic growth possible and what might that mean for the future?

The fact that we have a breathable atmosphere on Earth is largely down to algae. Could these aquatic plants be the secret of solving climate change and saving ourselves and the planet?

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

From queer cake sitting to sex positive tasting evenings, Tracks finds out about food and sexuality.

How can we age well? Ronja von Rönne trys to find out by talking to chimney sweep Norbert Skrobek, who is close to retirement and Monika Gutte who defies age with a zest for life

In Brussels, the Commission is hoping for a fresh start in relations with Hungary.

They are reclaiming their bodies and freely expressing their sexuality: A focus on sex positive popstars in contemporary culture.

Paris city hall is pursuing a green traffic policy: Less cars, more bicycles. But not everybody is pleased.

When Lolo's father is diagnosed with cancer, everything goes off the rails in this darkly funny story of family infighting.

A performance of Khatchaturian’s virtuosic violin concerto and Stravinsky’s ground-breaking The Rite of Spring.

A trip to Naples to discover the centuries’ old Feminielli; a unique queer identity.