Beyond Borders

What happens when the Alps start to fall?

In this episode of the Beyond Borders podcast, presenter David Foster and producers Nathalie Kantaris Diaz and Vivienne Dacre take us behind the scenes of their latest documentary "The Alps Are Falling".

From a Swiss village buried beneath millions of tonnes of rock and a glacier disappearing before their eyes, to thunderstorms, treacherous mountain roads, a blown-out tyre and a nerve-racking helicopter ride, the team shares what it was really like making the film.

They also reveal the people they met along the way, from Switzerland's top scientists racing to find ways to stabilise the mountains, to communities determined to stay in the places they call home. It’s the story behind the story: what surprised us, what went wrong, and what we discovered about a landscape being transformed by climate change.

Watch the full film on the Beyond Borders YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO4CsPyj4nw

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Everyone has a story.

Host: Adam Charlton

Guests: David Foster, Nathalie Kantaris Diaz, Vivienne Dacre

Editors: Vivienne Dacre, Emine Gezici Ustundag

Executive Producer: Alice Tegg

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Switzerland hasn't fought a foreign war in more than 200 years. So why is it one of the most heavily armed nations in Europe?

The Beyond Borders team goes behind the scenes of its latest documentary, “Courage or Cowardice: Switzerland at War.” Presenter David Foster and producers Nathalie Kantaris Diaz and Vivienne Dacre reveal a country wrestling with its own identity: a shooting festival held on a military base, an advert where a young girl pulls a rifle from her cupboard instead of a toy, and a soldier's startling admission that the army couldn't properly defend the country with the equipment it has.

Then we go deep underground, into Switzerland's labyrinthine bunker network. The family shelter behind a massive steel door, the Cold War fortress carved into a mountainside, and the 11 km stronghold whose private owner surprised us all when asked if he'd shelter his neighbours in a crisis!

Vivienne, who is Swiss and grew up with a bunker under her own home, explains what outsiders get wrong about her country's relationship with guns and neutrality. And we hear how Ukrainians and Palestinians living in Switzerland experience that famous neutrality very differently.

With two referendums looming that could redefine Swiss neutrality forever, this is the story behind the story.

Watch the full film on the Beyond Borders YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlAb_zWxivc

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Everyone has a story.

Host: Adam Charlton

Guests: David Foster, Nathalie Kantaris Diaz, Vivienne Dacre

Editors: Vivienne Dacre, Nathalie Kantaris Diaz

Executive Producer: Alice Tegg

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Making “Spain's Unfinished History” is the focus of our latest episode of The Beyond Borders Podcast. This is the story behind the documentary, told by the team that made it.

From a Friday conversion ceremony in the shadow of the Alhambra to 1,300-year-old Islamic water systems being restored to fight Spain's climate crisis, the Beyond Borders team reflects on the communities keeping Al-Andalus alive, and the far-right VOX party trying to erase it from Spanish schools.

Spain spent centuries trying to erase the legacy of Al-Andalus. But as the team discovered, history has a way of resurfacing through music, politics, and even the water flowing down the mountains.

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This time on The Beyond Borders Podcast, we go behind the story of Sweden's Child Killers: Victims or Criminals? - the documentary that asks how Sweden's gangs turned children into contract killers, and whether anyone can stop them.

This is what it was actually like on the ground. From a murder scene we arrived at less than 24 hours after a teenager was shot dead outside his home, to a police weapons cache holding 27,000 seized items including grenades, assault rifles, and 3D printed handguns.

Among those we meet are three alleged gang members who agreed to only talk to us in a cold basement. All three had a casualness about violence and criminal behaviour that was difficult to reconcile with how young they were.

We also go inside a community centre that makes a simple argument: £200,000 a year to keep kids off the street, or £700,000 a year to keep one person behind bars. The maths isn't complicated.

And we ask why it's the children of immigrants, not the first generation, who are most at risk of being recruited.

Sweden calls it a national emergency. The age of criminal responsibility has just been lowered to 13. But few think that’s the answer.

The story behind the story.

Watch the full documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB0uNP1enCA&t=212s

Hosts: Adam Charlton, David Foster, Vivienne Dacre

Executive Producer: Alice Tegg

Editor: Emine Gezici Ustundag

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From neighbours living with the threat of war between NATO and Russia on their doorstep, to breakaway micro nations, repentant child soldiers, and rat-catchers risking their lives - you can find our entire back-catalogue here:

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Denmark is one of the happiest places on earth. So why is its government forcing thousands of people out of their homes on account of where they live and who they are?

Adam Charlton and David Foster go inside Denmark's controversial "Parallel Societies" policy - a social experiment that's demolished neighbourhoods and broken up communities. Now it’s being legally challenged as potentially unlawful racial discrimination. 

They meet the residents left behind in near-empty tower blocks, the lawyer fighting to bring the whole thing down, and the activists who took 50,000 signatures to Parliament, only to be ignored.

The Danish government calls it integration. The people living through it call it discrimination. 

What happens when the state decides your community is the problem? 

Watch the full documentary, "Ghetto Blasted: Integration or Discrimination?" and tell us: is this pioneering social policy, or state-sanctioned discrimination? 

Leave your comments here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XReHIUWekU&t=30s

Hosts: Adam Charlton, David Foster

Executive Producer: Alice Tegg

Editor: Nathalie Kantaris Diaz and Emine Gezici Ustundag

From neighbours living with the threat of war between NATO and Russia on their doorstep, to breakaway micro nations, repentant child soldiers, and rat-catchers risking their lives - you can find our entire back-catalogue here:

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Spain’s economy is booming. But its growth relies on a workforce some refuse to even acknowledge. From the people risking death to reach Europe, to the “Sea of Plastic” that enables Europeans to eat fresh fruit and vegetables all year round, these are the human stories behind the headlines. 

Hosts: Adam Charlton, David Foster and Nathalie Kantaris Diaz

Executive Producer: Alice Tegg

Editor: Nathalie Kantaris Diaz and Emine Gezici Ustundag

From neighbours living with the threat of war between NATO and Russia on their doorstep, to breakaway micro nations, repentant child soldiers, and rat-catchers risking their lives - you can find our entire back-catalogue here:

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Is this really the last ‘acceptable’ form of racism?

Romany Gypsies have been nomadic for centuries. But today their way of life is under threat like never before. From the road, to the fireside, to the boxing ring, and the heart of Britain’s biggest gypsy gatherings - Beyond Borders explores a community on the fringes that has never felt welcome.

Watch the full programme here: https://youtu.be/FiyLOpcpEWw?si=QuZnu0fsh4iaWmMz

Hosts: Adam Charlton and Nathalie Kantaris Diaz

Show Producers: Nathalie Kantaris Diaz and Caoimhe Louise Willemoes

Executive Producer: Alice Tegg

Podcast Editor: Emine Gezici Ustundag and Caoimhe Louise Willemoes

From neighbours living with the threat of war between NATO and Russia on their doorstep, to breakaway micro nations, repentant child soldiers, and rat-catchers risking their lives - you can find our entire back-catalogue here: https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld

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For generations Europe’s oldest living culture was told to be ashamed. Its language silenced, its identity suffocated. Now a new fight is unfolding in the Arctic. Not against the past but over progress, and the use of traditionally Sami territory for Europe’s clean energy goals.

But this time the struggle isn’t just against the government, it comes from within, and the unspoken power-struggle inside the Sami hierarchy.

Watch the full programme here: https://youtu.be/d2tPbbE3AHQ?si=3aMppGSzmW2nnx_h

Hosts: Adam Charlton, Caoimhe Louise Willemoes and Nathalie Kantaris Diaz

Show Producers: Caoimhe Louise Willemoes, Nathalie Kantaris Diaz, and Vivienne Dacre

Executive Producer: Alice Tegg

Podcast Editor: Vivienne Dacre, Emine Gezici Ustundag

From communities living with the threat of war between NATO and Russia on their doorstep, to Sri Lanka’s repentant former child soldiers, to the New York rat-catchers risking their lives - you can watch our entire back-catalogue of shows here: https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld

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Welcome to Liberland, the self-declared micronation in the heart of Europe, that claims to be building a new country from scratch. Sold as a tax-free utopia with no government interference and a crypto-powered economy, Liberland has attracted libertarians, adventurers, and digital nomads from around the world.

But is this bold experiment in freedom a genuine blueprint for the future of nation-building, or an elaborate illusion built on disputed land that it may never legally control?

Beyond Borders investigates the vision, the politics, the believers, and the controversy behind one of the world’s most ambitious and polarising attempts to create a new country.

Watch the full programme here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpByXa-LnRM&t=111s

Hosts: Adam Charlton, Connor McLaughlin & Caoimhe Willemoes

Show Producers: Connor McLaughlin & Caoimhe Willemoes 

Executive Producer: Alice Tegg

Podcast Editor: Connor McLaughlin

From communities living with the threat of war between NATO and Russia on their doorstep, to Sri Lanka’s repentant former child soldiers, to the New York rat-catchers risking their lives - you can watch our entire back-catalogue of shows here: 

https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld

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Welcome to Europe’s most closely watched town.

High above the Arctic Circle, on the Norwegian border with Russia, is a place where some say the Cold War never ended. Where a memorial to the Soviet soldiers who defeated the Nazis has a darker meaning since Russia invaded Ukraine. And where those trying to report what’s happening have been targeted by Moscow’s spy network. This is a community living with the threat of war between NATO and Russia, and the suspicion that hangs over everyone.

Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/plLNV1bYQts

Credits

Hosts: Adam Charlton, Caoimhe Willemoes & Nathalie Kantaris Diaz

Show Producers: Caoimhe Willemoes & Nathalie Kantaris Diaz

Executive Producer: Alice Tegg

Podcast Editor: Caoimhe Willemoes

From Sri Lanka’s former child soldiers, to Greenlandic inuits fighting for justice, and New York’s rat-catchers risking their lives - you can watch our entire back-catalogue of shows here:

https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld

Get in touch:

[email protected]

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