Radio and TV
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Articles
A topic-by-topic breakdown
Film
- (Times2/ Times of Malta: The military man who became a stunt double
- Inverse: Time to hang up the heels: Behind the 44-Year career of The Killer’s legendary foley artist
- Little White Lies: Inside the wild world of film-to-book novelisations
- The Guardian: ‘It was a crazy thing to do’: Alex Camillieri on how he made ordinary fishers the stars of Luzzu
- Spotlight: Mobile Movies
- Little White Lies: How do you create a real fake language?
- Little White Lies: Ollie Laker: ‘More people have been up Mount Everest than to the rainforest canopy’
- Little White Lies: Jaime Leigh McIntosh: ‘We weren’t stuck in this idea of what the 1920s should look like’
- TOPIA MAGAZINE: GIRLS CAN’T SURF?! Meet the badass women who fought sexism and homophobia in surfing
- Modern Times Review: Unearthing hidden truths in the Moscow Metro
- Modern Times Review: Unpacking trauma
- Modern Times Review: The children of the Amazon
Food and drink
- The i: Europe’s healthiest summer diets — and how they could help you live longer
- Reader’s Digest: Why you need to try bigilla, the Maltese tic bean dip
- Time Out: Six must-visit restaurants in Madrid
- Inside Hook: Meet the Woman Bringing Iranian Beer to American Markets
- Business Spotlight: My favourite after-work drink in Valencia
- Business Spotlight: Anyone for cricket?
- Modern Farmer: Meet the Spaniards Turning Tiger Nuts into Horchata
Travel
- Time Out: Try this perfect coastal getaway this summer
- Time Out: Discover Madrid’s drag scene
- Time Out: Get a taste of Italy at these seaside spots near London
- Time Out: Brighton, as you’ve never experienced it before
- Time Out: Epic walks in the south east to take this summer
- Times2: Times of Malta “Gozo is the perfect freediving spot”
- Times2: Times of Malta: “Malta didn’t feature on the map of pilgrim routes, and I wanted to do something about it”
- New 7 Wonders: Chichén Itzá: a wonder of archeoastronomy
Human interest
- Business Spotlight (ZEIT SPRACHEN): Forced to flee: Living and working in exile
- Spotlight (ZEIT SPRACHEN): “I swam into a plastic bag and it engulfed my head”
- Sunday Circle/ Times of Malta: From meat to marrow
- TOPIA Magazine: Let’s talk about death, baby
- Sunday Circle/ Times of Malta: Abela Brother — the beauty of harmonising
- Spotlight (ZEIT SPRACHEN): Seaweed entrepreneur — harvesting at sea
- Sunday Circle/ Times of Malta: Dream big. Dive deep.
- New 7 Wonders: Let’s talk about Komodo dragons! An interview with Professor Bryan Fry, a biochemist, molecular biologist and Komodo dragon expert
- Selamta: Seeds of change
Opinion
- The Guardian: Why I’m not sorry I learned to quit the vacuous English habit of constantly apologising
- Business Spotlight (ZEIT SPRACHEN): “If we millennials don’t feel valued, we’ll look elsewhere”
- The i: “I thought I would love living in Malta, but it wasn’t what I’d imagined”
Art
- Meer: Exploring the mind of the talented Gabriel Buttigieg
- Sunday Circle/ Times of Malta: Painting with light
- Sunday Circle/ Times of Malta: Filigree rewired
- Meer: Amber Vittoria: Manhattan artist and poet
- Malta Independent: Biophilia and beyond: An exhibition by Sabrina Debono
- Meer: Ulm Synagogue, designed by Professor Susanne Gross
- Meer: Curb appeal
- Meer: Reframing Catholicism through art
- Meer: Perucchetti’s homage to nature
Business
- Business Spotlight (ZEIT SPRACHEN): On both sides of the law
- Business Spotlight (ZEIT SPRACHEN): The great paper chase
- Business Spotlight (ZEIT SPRACHEN): “People don’t like to hear it, but it’s a choice”
- Business Spotlight (ZEIT SPRACHEN): Rent before you buy
- Business Spotlight (ZEIT SPRACHEN): The country with just one cinema
- Business Spotlight (ZEIT SPRACHEN): Professional dads
- Business Spotlight (ZEIT SPRACHEN): Carbon farming — growth and renewal
- Business Spotlight (ZEIT SPRACHEN): The cost of conferences
- Business Spotlight (ZEIT SPRACHEN): How to promote yourself (without feeling inauthentic)
- Business Spotlight (ZEIT SPRACHEN): Scientific and commercial diver
- Business Spotlight (ZEIT SPRACHEN): Where you go to school determines your career
Published articles
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