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Eleanor Ambos is an unlikely tycoon. Since arriving in New York from her native Germany at age 20, she has transformed a modest interior-design business into a small empire, with a renovated factory building in the borough of Queens in New York at its centre. Eleanor Ambos Interiors profiles the singular octogenarian as she approaches her life with humour and maintains a fiery passion for her work, despite advancing age and worsening vision.
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Ageing and death
Memories of friends and neighbours light the streets of a seaside village in England
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Home
Life moves slowly in a Romanian mountain village, shaped by care and the seasons
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Consciousness and altered states
‘I want me back’ – after a head injury, Nick struggles with his altered reality
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Making
On the Norwegian coast, a tree is transformed into a boat the old-fashioned way
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Animals and humans
One man’s quest to save an orphaned squirrel, as narrated by David Attenborough
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Nature and landscape
California’s landscapes provide endless inspiration for a woodcut printmaker
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Virtues and vices
Why Bennie tried to disappear, and what happened when he was found decades later
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Design and fashion
A ceramicist puts her own bawdy spin on the folk language of pottery
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Language and linguistics
Why Susan listens to recordings of herself speaking a language she no longer remembers
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