An empire built on playing house: how imagination can change your situation
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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After 17 years of addiction, Raina finds a lifeline in compassion
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videoWar and peace
The extraordinary craft and fascinating symbolism of a pre-Incan ceremonial shield
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videoProgress and modernity
Moving from Tibet to Beijing, Drolma reconciles big dreams with harsh realities
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videoAgeing and death
Memories of friends and neighbours light the streets of a seaside village in England
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videoHome
Life moves slowly in a Romanian mountain village, shaped by care and the seasons
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‘I want me back’ – after a head injury, Nick struggles with his altered reality
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videoMaking
On the Norwegian coast, a tree is transformed into a boat the old-fashioned way
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One man’s quest to save an orphaned squirrel, as narrated by David Attenborough
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videoNature and landscape
California’s landscapes provide endless inspiration for a woodcut printmaker
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