42: The Answer to Almost Everything

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

If money can buy power and influence. Are the super rich undermining democracy?

Who really were our ancestors? And what can our DNA tell us about them and us?

Life emerged about four billion years ago, but exactly where and how it started is unclear. 42 tries to find out the answer.

Ex-footballer turned anti-poverty activist Neven Subotić discusses the books that changed his life.

Africa’s largest economy has regular power cuts so citizens must adapt to life without electricity.

How should we know which job to choose? And do dream jobs really make us happy? Ronja von Rönne investigates.

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

Children and young people look to adults as role models, usually their parents, but they also are influenced by their peers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A look back at the Jeffrey Epstein's life and how the Epstein Files are exposing corruption at the highest level.