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Chinese-Belgian producer Bolis Pupul traces his Hong Kong roots in Letter To Yu, his first solo album, which he will be presenting at Paris' Ground Control.

Ground Control

Bolis Pupul

AIR perform their iconic album Moon Safari at London's prestigious Royal Albert Hall. Return to the tail end of the 1990s with this exceptional concert, when the "French Touch" scene was conquering hearts and minds from the European continent to Hollywood.

Royal Albert Hall

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Chinese-Belgian producer Bolis Pupul traces his Hong Kong roots in <em>Letter To Yu</em>, his first solo album, which he will be presenting at Paris' Ground Control.

Bolis Pupul presents his Letter To Yu project to the Ground Control audience.

Air bring their totemic French Touch founding album to London's Royal Albert Hall.

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Aili

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Attention dance music fans: these two DJs will be performing as a duo for the first time at Sónar 2024!

Jennifer Cardini b2b HAAi

The Tshegue phenomenon takes control at Ground Control. The Franco-Congolese duo will be promoting their latest Argent EP, released in autumn 2024.

Tshegue unites Paris and Kinshasa from the Ground Control launchpad.

Tshegue

The unclassifiable Róisín Murphy shows how difficult it is to pigeonhole her once again at Paris' Ground Control, where she displays all the richness and eclecticism of a discography stretching back to the 90s.

Protean pop star Róisín Murphy on stage at Paris' Ground Control.

Róisín Murphy

The ever-evolving Fat White Family bring cuts from their latest album Forgiveness is Yours to Ground Control. Band members may be forever on rotation but thanks to the steely vision of frontman Lias Saoudi their queasy charm remains alluring.

Ground Control París

Confrontational, scabrous and intelligent: It can only be Fat White Family, the dark underbelly of UK rock.

Fat White Family

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Ground Control Paris

The Lemon Twigs revive the rock spirit of the 60s and 70s.

The Lemon Twigs

With her heart on her sleeve and a steely glint in her eye, Jehnny Beth is here to urge you to live and love with the customary intensity she brings to all her live performances, whether it's part of her former band Savages or solo. Expect firebrand renditions of tracks from her debut album TO LOVE IS TO LIVE.

ARTE Concert Festival 2023

The incandescent Jehnny Beth brings her ravenous love of life to Paris' Gaîté Lyrique.

Jehnny Beth

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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Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979.  This means that 1 in 5 Chinese men will not be able to find a partner in five years’ time.

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Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979. 

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The Assad clan, in power for decades, has fallen in a matter of weeks. Toppled rebels led by Abu Mohammed Al-Joulani. But who is he? And what hope of peaceful coexistence for Syria’s mosaic of peoples.

Syria: After the Dictatorship

The Assad clan, in power for decades, has fallen in a matter of weeks. Toppled rebels led by Abu Mohammed Al-Joulani. But who is he? 

Mapping the World Essentials

Diwa is only 11 years old. She is one of the thousands of victims of a crime that is hardly reported on in Europe but which is causing havoc in the Philippines. She was raped by her parents, live on the internet, to satisfy the desires of foreign paedophiles who paid for the spectacle of her rape, giving instructions from a distance.

Philippines: Child Rape Online

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Far from living the ‘Chinese Dream’ maybe young people are unemployed and disillusioned.

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Just a few kilometres off the coast of North Korea, the South Korean islands of Yeonpyong and Baeknyeongdo are at the frontline of tensions between the two countries. Last January, 60 shells were fired by the North, leading to the evacuation of Yeongpyong. Life on the islands is tense, as fishermen can attest.

Yeonpyeong: Between Two Koreas

The South Korean islands of Yeonpyong and Baeknyeongdo are at the frontline of tensions between North and South Korea.. 

Gessler’s hat became a metaphor for enforced submissive behaviour. When William Tell refuses to salute the tyrannical Governor’s hat, his punishment is to put his son’s life in danger. Rossini’s opera, based on Friedrich Schiller’s play, is performed in Lausanne for the first time. With Jean-Sébastien Bou in the title role and Luigi De Donato in that of the Governor.

Opéra de Lausanne

The Swiss national hero must shoot the apple off his son’s head on the stage of the Opéra de Lausanne.

Gioachino Rossini: William Tell

The Nobel prize, the Prince of Asturias Award, the National Medal of Arts: All prizes that Bob Dylan won but refused. Is this how he stays true to his counter-culture ideas?

Bob Dylan

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Ireland has a severe shortage of homes with hundreds of thousands needing to be built. With rents in Dublin spiralling, many families are homeless. Jordyn, Jonathan and their daughter Delilah have no fixed address and have to look for somewhere to spend the night every day.

Since the financial crisis, Ireland has had a severe housing crisis with many families left homeless.

Re: Ireland's Housing Crisis

Together with Panama and Suriname, Bhutan is one of only three countries in the world with a negative carbon footprint. Its strictly protected forests, which cover 70% of the country, absorb three times as much carbon as it emits. But now the glacial lakes in the mountainous nation are threatening to overflow as a result of climate change.

Bhutan: Green Paradise in Danger

Together with Panama and Suriname, Bhutan is one of only three countries in the world with a negative carbon footprint.

Across Europe, the far right is embedding itself into the political landscape and daily life. But behind an increasingly smooth and respectable façade lies an ideology that remains fundamentally racist and violent. An in-depth focus into an ecosystem of extreme ideology in France, Germany, and Belgium.

Inside Europe's Far-Right Movement

Across Europe, the far right is embedding itself into politics and daily life, but remains fundamentally violent and racist. 

White Power

Spain and Germany view the EU MERCOSUR trade agreement as an opportunity whilst France sees it as a threat to its agricultural industries with unfair competition from countries that can produce food cheaper and with less stringent regulations. An opportunity to take a look at how agriculture has undergone a revolution in recent decades.

MERCOSUR & the Globalisation of Agriculture

Spain and Germany view the EU-MERCOSUR trade agreement as an opportunity whilst France sees it as a threat to its agricultural industries.

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Why is Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, still viewed as a Machiavellian manipulator? By marrying into the family her father wanted to forge an alliance with, she became forever associated with the worst scandals of Renaissance Italy.

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Sting

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For Brad Mehldau's performance in Lorraine for the Nancy Jazz Pulsations festival, the piano virtuoso is accompanied by a double bassist and a drummer. A high-flying concert!

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