Anti-depressants, tranquillisers and sleeping pills are some of the most prescribed medicines in the world with a record number of us on the ’happy pills’. Many of these drugs come with a range of serious side effects. But is is their association with violence and suicide that has been most controversial.
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Every year, thousands of American teenagers are kidnapped from their homes and shipped to Christian reform schools abroad on their parents’ orders.
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We investigate the commercialization of the natural world. Protecting our planet has become big business with companies promoting new environmental markets.
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A new type of activism is emerging that uses an unusual weapon to condemn injustice; laughter. We follow some of this new generation of activists to see what they do and if it works.
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Gold, the enduring safe investment and symbol of wealth, comes at a high price. Mined in slave-like conditions, it has been linked to everything from funding civil wars in Africa to causing environmental disasters in Latin America.
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Tareq bikes through the area to visit limestone cliffs, try some tree climbing and stop by a Viking ship heading out into the fjords.
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Tareq visits a salt maker using medieval techniques, an aquarium where he gets up close to the fish, and one of Denmark’s most beautiful towns.
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There are not many places like Tornedalen. A river has provided for locals, and the very fertile land has yielded amazing crops for centuries.
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Tareq finds a chef setting up a huge food village, sees forts left over from invaders, and learns about beer being recreated from 200 year old DNA.
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