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Chris Cummins

Letters from a shrinking globe: around the day in 80 worlds.

14.09.2012
Schäferhund

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Large carnivores have returned to the Alps - can they co-exist with humans?

11.09.2012

Riding for the Sun

Adventurer Susie Wheeldon cycled 20,000km through the world's deserts to promote solar power.

02.09.2012
Slashlacking in Bregenz

Slacking Off In Bregenz

Nothing can dampen spirits at the eclectic Freakwave festival.

23.08.2012
Wanderer in Lappland

Up Where The Reindeer Roam

With a rucksack and a tent through Lapland - the Fjällräven Classic.

05.08.2012
Rennradfahrer

On The Road

Across Austria in five days: Hemingway was right when he said, "It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best."

04.08.2012
"CAN"

Richard Ford's "Canada"

The folly of the father lived out by the son, told slowly and carefully.

21.07.2012
On The Rocks Festival

Shelter From The Storm

The miserable weather couldn't dampen spirits at the On The Rocks Festival near Salzburg. An intimate, charming music night.

19.07.2012
Rad

The Bike That Was Grown

Bamboo bikes are billed as ecological and trendy. Are they good to ride?

16.07.2012
Mensch am Gletscher

Vanishing Jewels

The glaciers of the Alps are in full retreat. A hike over a disappearing wonder.

18.06.2012
Wandschmierereien

Racism and Poland

As racism and anti-Semitism charges theaten to overshadow Poland`s party, grass-roots activists show the country's kinder, more tolerant face.

15.06.2012

What Can We Expect From Rio + 20?

A future that is more green and less mean? A Saturday Reality Check Special on the third UN Earth Summit (12-13).

05.06.2012
Wald

"We Are On A Suicidal Path"

The world has got neither cleaner or fairer since the bombastic optimism of the original Earth Summit in Rio. So what hope for Rio +20?

09.05.2012

The Underpants Hero

Did a skilled agent foil bravely a deadly terror plot and what has comedy got to do with child soldiers? Reality Check, 9th May.

04.05.2012
TC Boyle

You and Me Baby Ain't Nothing But Mammals

An encounter with TC Boyle, writer, ecologist, pessimist and would-be rock star.

27.04.2012
Nebel

Is It All Sausage?

Is it a "tea party with pretentions" or the way out of the crisis? A postcard from a palace in the clouds.

11.04.2012
Schatten einer Frau, Buchcover

A Viennese River of Sex

William Boyd's new Vienna-based novel "Waiting for Sunrise" is a study of light and darkness.

06.04.2012
Bosnian children play soccer behind a sniper barricade in Dobrinja, Sarajevo's frontline suburb during the siege of the city.

Peace But Little Unity in Bosnia

Reality Check: Bosnia 20 years on, Roma: Repatriations to Kosovo, the Pope takes on the Pfarrerinitiative, the fall of Umberto Bossi and a big box of noise

05.04.2012

Did it really "have to be said"?

Reality Check: Riots in Athens, Equal Pay Day, a controversial poem about Israel, an easing of sanctions on Myanmar and Romney tries to woo women.

31.03.2012
Krankenschwester mit afrikanischem Kind

Extreme Medicine - Inside MSF

Young Tyrolean Médecins sans Frontières nurse Priska Bedner on guns, naivity, improvisation and love in a time of cholera.

24.03.2012
scientist

Inside Austria's Elite University

A visit to the Institute of Science and Technology at Gugging

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