Foreign Correspondent · SEASON 21
A Bavarian Fairy Tale
Episode 2 · 2012-02-14
- Documentary
- News
Episode overview
If Europe's going down the gurgler why are the good burghers of Bavaria singing, dancing, laughing and toasting their good fortune over a litre of beer or six? Well, they have a secret. They even have a word for it that only Germans really understand. It's called Mittelstand and it's made many of the businesses in this uber enterprising part of the world solid, successful, optimistic and fearlessly forging into the future. Germans have another word for how that makes them feel about the many of their basket-case neighbours in Europe: Schadenfreude - a kind of delicious pleasure at the misfortune of others. If only they didn't have to prop them up.
30 minutes
Season 21 episodes
1. The Ka-Ching! Dynasty2012-02-07
2. A Bavarian Fairy Tale2012-02-14
3. Girlpower!2012-02-21
4. Meet the Frackers2012-02-28
5. The Almighty's Dollar2012-03-06
6. Building the Perfect Bug2012-03-13
7. The Road to Mandalay2012-03-20
8. They Paved Paradise2012-05-15
9. Sayonara Baby2012-05-22
10. The Real Great Escape2012-05-29
11. Miss Tibet2012-06-05
12. England Swings2012-06-12
13. That Was Then This Is Now2012-06-19
14. Globesity - Fat's New Frontier2012-07-24
15. Wired2012-07-31
16. The Wandering Souls2012-08-07
17. Two Hearts2012-08-14
18. Revenge of the Nerds2012-08-21
19. Lords of the Ring2012-08-28
20. Rise of the Machines2012-09-04
21. Tick, Tick, Boom!2012-10-23
22. Adrenalin Nation2012-10-30
23. Goin' Up Around the Bend - Truth, Votes and the American Way2012-11-06
24. The Odyssey2012-11-13
25. The Big Dig2012-11-20
26. We Will Not Be Moved2012-11-27
