Coming in January 2022
Featuring voices from across the U.S. and around the globe, connect your audience to the world with these unique stories and perspectives. This month, we unveil responses to the on-going pandemic with political leaders and questioners in Europe, delve into Chicago’s avant-jazz scene and discover the influence of animals and nature and the steps people are taking towards conservation and research. See below for details.
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Docs and Specials
World Questions: COVID-19 and Europe
One hour
January 15 – February 11, 2022
The epicentre of the pandemic right now is Europe. Many European countries are now restricting the freedoms of the unvaccinated, and Austria plans to make the COVID vaccine compulsory from February the 1st. As tough new policies are implemented, World Questions debates the response to the pandemic with political leaders and questioners from across the continent.
Music Life: The Great Black Music Symposium
One hour
January 15 – February 28, 2022
Where music stars discuss how they make their music. Delving into Chicago’s avant-jazz scene, Angel Bat Dawid invites her friends to discuss major issues in their art. They consider the importance of not conforming, the struggle to find money to do what you love, and the experience of being diasporic African and its influence on your music.
Forest Fear
One hour
January 22 – 28, 2022
Environmental journalist Lucy Jordan lives in Brazil with her young family. She wants to understand our impact on diverse, wildlife-rich ecosystems and how that may trigger future “spill over” diseases that have their origins in animal hosts.
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How do reindeer cope with extreme polar seasons?
- Description: If you struggle to wake up in the winter, you might be envious of the reindeer. Scientists think they may be able to ignore their body clocks, which influence when they feel tired or awake, to help them cope with long Arctic days and nights.
- Suggested social copy: Reindeer may be able to ignore their body clocks to cope with long days and nights.
- Duration: 1 minute 45 seconds
Manta rays inspire new device to filter microplastics
- Description: Wastewater treatment plants release microplastics into the environment, where they accumulate and pose a threat to wildlife. But by studying the way a manta ray feeds on plankton, scientists have designed a filtration system that captures the tiny fragments without getting clogged.
- Suggested social copy: A look at how manta rays have inspired a new device to filter microplastics.
- Duration: 1 minute 21 seconds
The man who grew his own Amazon rainforest
- Description: A corner of the Amazon that had been cleared and used as farmland has been restored to rainforest. The man who owns it, Omar Tello, gave up his job as an accountant and spent 40 years recreating a patch of pristine forest in Ecuador, stretching just a few hundred metres in each direction. He’s trying to encourage other landowners to do the same, so they can turn the tide of deforestation. A film for People Fixing the World by Daniel Gordon Drone footage by Felix Frank.
- Suggested social copy: Fighting back against destruction in the Amazon: how one man grew a rainforest of his own.
- Duration: 4 minutes 45 seconds
