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Een rechtbank in Hongkong heeft zeven prominente activisten veroordeeld tot celstraf. Onder hen is onderzoeker en activist Gwyneth Kwai-lam Ho.

The Dutch province of Brabant hosts one of the world's leading drivers of technological innovation. ASML manufactures machines that can produce computer chips on a microscopic scale. Just as geopolitical tensions put pressure on the global chip supply, VPRO Backlight gains exclusive access to the high-tech company and its mysterious clean rooms.

Currently, more than a hundred million pieces of space debris orbit the earth with a velocity of 25 thousand kilometers an hour. Should these fragments of discarded rockets and satellites collide, the consequences could be catastrophic to terrestrial communication. How can we clean this up, and who is going to do it? Artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde is on a mission to a cleaner space.

Ten years ago, we were taken by surprise when Lehman Brothers' merchant bank went bankrupt. The financial crisis that followed was like a chain reaction; a pole dancer with her five mortgages turned out to be connected to the huge gap in the Greek national budget. Is it possible to predict the next crisis? What are the lessons learnt from the last one?

What is a bullshit job and who has a bullshit job? Do you think that your work has no sense? Than it is likely that you have a bullshit job, that does not bring any satisfaction or any other benefit. In this documentary vpro and American anthropologist David Graeber look more closely at bullshit jobs, why they exist and what they do with us.