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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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Wellbeing
Through a poetic account of childhood trauma, one woman reclaims her past
28 minutes
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Politics and government
‘Without a poster, you don’t exist!’ – on the curious political banners of Mumbai
20 minutes
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Global history
The famed medieval map that stretched beyond Earth to heaven, history and myth
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Earth science and climate
A biologist on the sorrows of documenting the Great Salt Lake’s collapse
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Design and fashion
Household items are reborn in a ‘visual symphony of everyday objects’
11 minutes
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Music
As a pianist strikes a chord, visualisations of his notes appear in real time
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Human rights and justice
Meet the man who uncovered the scandal of nuclear testing in South Australia
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Thinkers and theories
Jeremy Bentham was consumed by creating a perfect prison. Here’s the result
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Global history
The strange journey of the Parthenon Marbles to the British Museum
10 minutes