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\r\n Turkey earthquake 2023: how a bereaved man is fighting for justice <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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A man loses his grandmother when a hospital building collapses in the earthquake \u2013 and takes up the fight against those responsible.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n \u2018I don\u2019t look for silence \u2013 and yet it\u2019s everywhere\u2019 <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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A young photographer drifts through the city and discovers quiet places that hardly anyone sees.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Peatland protection: why bogs are among our most important climate savers <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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From carbon store to political issue: why wet soils matter so much for the climate \u2013 and four people who are fighting for them.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n \u2018We want to give dying a place of the greatest possible security\u2019 <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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At Hospiz Luise in Hannover, carers accompany people on their final journey \u2013 and turn fear into a sense of safety.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n What is silence? Ten people, ten answers <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Ten very different lives, one question \u2013 captured in short, powerful video portraits.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Groundhog Day for the humble sandwich: a homage <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Simple, familiar, underrated: a photographic declaration of love to the simplest meal of the day.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Between silence and storm surge: a hermit on the Hallig <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Nick, 48, from Berlin has swapped his old life for solitude off the coast of North Frisia. A visit.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Seven days of silence: a self-experiment in a silent retreat <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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A week without a single word: what it feels like to fall completely silent \u2013 and where your own limits lie.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Toxic silence: when silence becomes torture <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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No word, no explanation, no look: how deliberately ignoring someone hurts \u2013 and leaves its mark on many people from childhood.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Shopping with autism: too bright, too loud, too much <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Glaring lights, flashing adverts, a babble of voices: for our author, the supermarket regularly becomes an ordeal.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Sign language: the silent language of deaf people <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Deaf, but not mute: how deaf people communicate in a loud world \u2013 and what hearing people hardly know about it.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n No place to retreat: why refugee shelters lack silence <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Constant noise, no room of one\u2019s own: how life in collective shelters wears people down \u2013 as told by a refugee from Ukraine.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Silence is rarely just quiet.<\/strong> It can be a refuge or become torment. Our third focus topic listens closely.<\/p>\n

A self-experiment lasts seven days \u2013 without a single word. A hermit lives between silence and storm surge. Autistic people explain why the supermarket is too bright and too loud for them, and one story introduces sign language as the silent language of Deaf people.<\/p>\n

Silence also has a harsh side: in accommodation for refugees, where there is no place to retreat to, or as toxic silence that turns into torment.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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