In one of his final official acts before he died, Pope Francis put Antoni Gaudí, Spain’s most famous architect, onto the path to sainthood.
Gaudí’s masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia, is a towering basilica, strangely designed and bursting with colour. It stands in the heart of Barcelona and its walls recount the entire story of the Catholic religion. After 140 years, having survived wars, arson attacks and dictatorship, it is still under construction. As Gaudí worked on it throughout his life, he became obsessive and it intensified his devotion. By the end of his life he was living like a monk.
Today, millions come every year to see his work. Some have been so affected by his art and approach they have converted to Catholicism. The process to confirm Gaudí as a saint is secretive and potentially long. But for the creator of the world’s longest ongoing construction, there’s no rush.
The BBC’s Max Horberry has been to Barcelona to see Gaudí’s work and speak to the people who have been working to finish the Sagrada Familia and campaigning for Gaudí’s sainthood. We will find out more about the path to sainthood and how architecture, nature and religion intertwine in Gaudí’s life.
[Credit: Fundació Junta Constructora del Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família]
Producer/Presenter: Max Horberry
Executive Producer: Rajeev Gupta
Editor: Chloe Walker
Production Coordinator: Mica Nepomuceno
The economy is made up of real resources and the people who produce and own them. Money is different. Money is supposed to represent these real things and the relations between them, but it often fails to. Focusing too much on money – and interest rates and monetary policy – blinds us to how the economy actually works. Gary explains why this is so important if we want to change anything.
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Further resources to understand money mentioned in the video:
What is money? • What is Money?
Burning money • Burning Money
The devaluation of money • The Devaluation of Money
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:47 The obsession with interest rates
03:56 How monetary policy failed in 2008
06:05 Know your medieval history
06:55 People confuse money for real resources
07:24 Money printing during COVID
08:20 Why don’t we just make more money?
10:21 You need more real resources
11:27 Redistribution of resources
12:46 Money is different for the individual and the state
13:24 Resources are rapidly flowing to the rich
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Thanks also to Joe Jackson, Dr. Kevin Krause, Dr. Peter Polyak, Donald Shultz, Professor Robert Weiss for all their help on the project.
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0:00 Where does rubber come from?
2:59 What is rubber?
5:10 Why is rubber so stretchy?
6:29 The problem with natural rubber
9:02 Cured Rubber
15:23 Vulcanisation
18:41 What rubber is used in tires?
22:54 How fungi could destroy the world economy
29:17 Synthetic rubber vs natural rubber
38:20 Why are some people allergic to latex?
23 Aug 2025
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 16 August 2025
1. Various high angle shots of Jongo Festival at Praça Tiradentes
2. Various of women singing and clapping hands
3. Large group of drummers playing
4. Man and woman doing the Jongo dance
5. Women watching and clapping
6. Various of couples dancing Jongo
7. Raquel Cunha, Jongo dancer, demonstrating USOUND (Portuguese)
“Before entering the circle we do a bow to the drums and salute the primeval tree. And then we dance.”
8. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Raquel Cunha, Jongo dancer:
“It’s like a waltz and a hunt. Always trying to be above and behind.”
9. Man and woman playing drums
10. Mestre (teacher) Cosme, drummer from Barra do Piraí, demonstrating drums UPSOUND (Portuguese) “We use two drums. This here is the Caxambú, the big one, and there’s the Candongueiro. I’m going to play the Caxambú beat.” (he plays).
11. Mestre Cosme, drummer from Barra do Piraí, demonstrating drums UPSOUND
“Now I’m doing the Candongueiro beat. It’s a more treble instrument”. (He plays again)
12. Drums on stage at Theatre Carlos Gomes
13. Jongo participants at congress in Theatre Carlos Gomes
14. Jongo masters on stage at Teatro Carlos Gomes
15. Drummers playing
16. People dancing onstage
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 15 August 2025
17. Drummers playing at Jongo drumming class seminar
18. Seminar participants playing their drums Jongo style
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 16 August 2025
19. Jongo players and dancers out in the street on their way from theatre to Tiradentes Square
20. Spontaneous Jongo gathering before the main event begins. Pedro Antonio Francisco dancing
21. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Pedro Antonio Francisco, festival goer:
“I love to dance Jongo. There are no words in the Portuguese language to say how much I like it.”
22. Drummers drumming
23. People dancing
24. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Mestre (teacher) Fatinha, festival goer from Pinheiral:
“Jongo was created in Brazil in the slave quarters, but the origins of the Black people, at least in this region, is Angola. When they reached Brazil, enslaved, they had to reinvent themselves. So Jongo was also a form of struggle for freedom.”
25. Various of drummers playing, and women dancing and singing
26. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Paulo Cesar dos Santos, Jongo Mestre (teacher)
from Barra Mansa:
“Jongo is an Afro Brazilian dance born at the time of slavery from the enslaved Black people who after an intense day of work met at the slave quarters to dance Jongo and exchange information, because in the Jongo gatherings there was dialogue among them which their enslavers could not understand.”
27. Drummers playing
28. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Paulo Cesar dos Santos, Jongo Mestre (teacher) from Barra Mansa:
“By singing they conversed with each other, sent messages without the plantation owners understanding what they were saying. They were songs sung in metaphoric language.”
29. People dancing Jongo, including festival organizer Marcos André Carvalho
30. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marcos André Carvalho, Jongo Festival organizer:
“Here in Rio de Janeiro, the state’s capital it’s even more important because these quilombos (settlements) are very well hidden at the Coffee Valley and in the state’s Northwest, so coming to the cultural state capital is also showing their faces. There’s a deep interior in Rio and in Brazil which should be better known by tourists, by the whole world and even by the Rio locals. Many here don’t know what Jongo is.”
31. Leandro Estevão Nascimento showing the interior of a drum
msamba 