Crazy Borders

Welcome to the Hotel Arbez, it’s a lovely place straddling the Franco-Swiss border.

A city divided between Belgium and the Netherlands, and scene of a murder? Welcome to Baarle.

Did you know that the last war between France and Spain took place in the 1970s?

Absurd images have invaded our social media apps. But is this ‘brain rot’ an interesting aesthetic? Or just mindless content?

In Brussels, most single-parent families are headed by women. Being a lone mother often means being poor with single-parent households four times more likely to fall below the poverty line. But support is there with the Single Parents' House.

 Artists Satch Hoyt and Juan Covelli challenge colonial narratives and spark debate about the restitution of cultural artefacts.

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

 Twist meets the singular people who dive into dange,r be they artists, scientists, climbers or photojournalists.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germans had to get used to a new way of consuming, working, and living. 

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

Vanessa Wagner performs Philip Glass’s Piano Etudes with dancers from the Accrorap company.

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

Bach’s St John Passion from Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie with the NDR vocal ensemble and Concerto Köln conducted by Klaas Stok.

A complex feeling that is both problematic and useful, the latest research on boredom.

White sand, white citrus blossom, white houses – Spain’s Costa Blanca is aptly named.

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

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

Using the latest technology, researchers are discovering the bright colours of ancient Greek art and architecture.  

An encounter between piano and dance in a former foundry.