Preview: CNN International Programme Information Weeks 20 & 21
Open Court
French Open champion and singer, Yannick Noah
Saturday 24 May at 0830 BST/0930 CET and 2200 BST/2300 CET
Sunday 25 May at 1730 BST/1830 CET
Duration: 30 minutes
This month’s ‘Open Court’ previews the second grand slam of the year, the French Open, Roland Garros, hosted by Pat Cash reporting from Paris. Champions who have previously traded the hard courts for a slide on the red clay in Paris, and won, are profiled.Cash speaks exclusively to the 1983 French Open champion Yannick Noah, spending one on one time in Adelaide, Australia with the last Frenchmen to win Roland Garros. Noah talks candidly about his historic Garros win, his popular singing career –and his son Joakim’s success with the Chicago Bulls.‘Open Court’ features former ‘teen champions’ Michael Chang and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, who each won Roland Garros in 1989, and this year celebrate the 25 year anniversary of their first grand slam titles. Chang is now coaching Garros contender Kei Nishikori, and the show spends time with Chang and his family in Paris as he prepares for this year’s French Open.In a picturesque close to ‘Open Court’s preview edition of Roland Garros, the show catches up with Joel Blanc. He’s the watercolorist who’s captured live action at the French Open for the past few years, drawing Rafa Nadal, Serena Williams and many of the biggest stars in tennis. ‘Open Court’ catches up with Blanc in his Paris studio to hear his story and see his fine work.
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CNN Go
Sunset over Rio de Janeiro and Sugar Loaf Mountain (Credit: Getty Images)
Wednesday 14 May at 1030 BST/ 1130 CET and 1730 BST/1830 CET
Saturday 17 May at 0530 BST/ 0630 CET and 1930 BST/ 2030 CET
Sunday 18 May at 1330 BST/ 1430 CET
Duration: 30 minutes
‘CNN Go’ features a unique take on global destinations every month, bringing views from insiders on what gives dynamic destinations around the world their distinctive buzz.
This month the programme travels to Brazil, exploring the real Rio de Janeiro from Sugar Loaf Mountain to Ipanema.
In the city’s western region, ‘CNN Go’ hits the Grumari beach with a local oceanographer for some surf time. The show also takes a look at a Brazilian jujitsu studio built for Rio’s youth and visits ‘The Maze’, a bed and breakfast that lets tourists live amongst one of the city’s favelas.
‘CNN Go’ also gets an inside look into one of Rio’s premier sushi restaurants, Sushi Leblon, where the owner shows CNN around his chic eatery, and follows local superstar DJ Tucho, as he visits his favourite tattoo studio.
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Human to Hero
Bodo Illgner and Fabio Cannavaro (Credit: Getty Images)
Bodo Ilgner – Wednesday 21 May at 1700 BST/1800 CET and 2230 BST/2330 CET ‘Human to Hero’ airs within World Sport
CNN’s ‘Human to Hero’ gets to the heart of what it means to be a sporting star, exploring the dedication, determination and inspiration involved for the world’s best athletes. As the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Rio draws closer, ‘Human to Hero’ continues profiling former football legends.
Footballer Fabio Cannavaro was captain of the Italian World Cup winning team in 2006. He is considered one of the greatest defenders of all time and was given the name “Muro di Berlino” (The Berlin Wall) by his Italian supporters, as well as named FIFA World Player of the Year in 2006. The 40-year-old spent most of his career in Italy, playing for Napoli, Parma and Juventus but also had a spell in Spain playing for Real Madrid, winning two Li Liga titles in 2007 and 2008. Now retired from professional football, Cannavaro is based in Dubai where he’s coach and brand ambassador to the Al-Ahli team.
Bodo Illgner is a former professional footballer who played as goalkeeper for Germany.
During his career, Illgner played 54 times for his country in total, helping West Germany win the FIFA World Cup in 1990, where he became the first goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet in a World Cup final. He has played for 1. FC Köln and Real Madrid, and was elected ‘Best German goalkeeper’ for four straight years, from 1989 to 1992 while playing for Koln. He has also won two La Liga titles and two Champions League with Real Madrid.
Since retiring at the age of 33, Illgner has been working as a football analyst for Sky Deutschland.
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CNN Business Traveller
Inside Lufthansa’s 3D machine where cabin interiors are designed
Friday 16 May at 0530 BST/0630 CET
Saturday 17 May at 0730 BST/ 0830 CET and 1630 BST/1730 CET
Sunday 18 May at 1130 BST/ 1230 CET
Duration: 30 minutes
This month’s ‘CNN Business Traveller’ travels to Washington D.C., Hamburg, Amsterdam and London on a mission to explore great design on the road.
Host Richard Quest reports from Washington D.C. where he visits Marriott International’s hidden design lab, ‘The Underground’ where future hotel rooms are developed. Quest is given a tour of the lab, to find out how Marriott’s design process works, and what guests are looking for in hotel rooms in 2014.
‘CNN Business Traveller’ also visits the Hamburg Aircraft Interiors Expo, taking a look at the latest in aircraft and cabin design for the next generation of planes. The programme visits Lufthansa’s design centre, ‘The Cave’, where computer models are turned into life-size 3D rooms that a designer can walk through.
In London, the show gets an inside look at the new Shangri-La Hotel, due to open this month, at the 54th level of The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union. It is the Shangri-La’s first property in England, and Rosie Tomkins takes a private tour with the brand’s CEO, Greg Dogan, to find out how designers go about creating a whole new hotel, particularly one with the difficult issue of being built at height.
‘CNN Business Traveller’ also learns how fashion in the air has changed since the beginning of flight, by taking a look at the world’s largest collection of airline cabin crew uniforms in Amsterdam.
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The Circuit
Lotus driver, Pastor Maldonado
Sunday 18 May at 1030 BST/ 1130 CET
Monday 19 May at 0430 BST/0530 CET
Tuesday 20 May at 1030 BST/ 1130 CET
Duration: 30 minutes
The May edition of ‘The Circuit’ is hosted from the Historic Grand Prix in Monaco, where vintage Formula 1 cars race the circuit, as the programme looks ahead to the Monaco race, the jewel in the crown of the F1 calendar.
The show explores the legacy of the six time Monaco winner, Ayrton Senna, as the Formula 1 world commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Brazilian’s death. ‘The Circuit’ host Amanda Davies also finds out what it takes to become a safety marshall at the Monaco Grand Prix.
‘The Circuit’ also meets Pastor Maldonado, who drives for the Lotus F1 team. Maldonado demonstrates the importance of telemetry and communication during a race, and talks about the hundreds of sensors on the F1 car, which give him and the Lotus F1 team real-time information about how their car is performing.
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One Square Meter
Downtown Los Angeles (Credit: Getty Images)
Tuesday 20 May at 1600 BST/ 1700 CET
One Square Meter airs Tuesdays in Global Exchange within Connect the World
This week’s ‘One Square Meter’, comes from Los Angeles, with a report on the demand for property investment in the city and the fast-paced world of real estate development.
In LA, there has been rapid development of the city’s downtown area. The best example of this is the collection of new blocks near the famed Staples Center, called ‘South Park’. At least half a dozen major construction projects are underway in this neighbourhood and several others are in the works. ‘One Square Meter’ takes a look at why this area is such attractive real estate, speaking to Mack Urban, the developer planning large projects in the area, as well the CEO of Greenland USA, a Chinese group, who have selected ‘South Park’ as their first US investment.
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Vital Signs with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
More babies are being born through IVF than ever before
Wednesday 21 May at 1030 BST / 1130 CET and 1730 BST / 1830 CET
Saturday 24 May at 0530 BST / 0630 CET and 1930 BST / 2030 CET
Sunday 25 May at 1330 BST / 1430 CET
Duration: 30 minutes
This month’s edition of ‘Vital Signs with Dr. Sanjay Gupta’ looks at innovations happening in In Vitro Fertilisation technology, and the journey of parents who look to IVF as their last chance at having children.
The show meets couple Simon and Gemma Potter, who were told it would be impossible for them to get pregnant on their own, and thought their dreams of having a child were over. But a breakthrough in IVF technology allowed them to realise those dreams. Now, they are celebrating the second birthday of their little girl.
The programme also explores the complicated, delicate and emotional journey of IVF, joining the doctors at CARE in the UK, to look at a new technology they are working with called the EmbryoScope. More babies are being born through IVF than ever before and the EmbryoScope is changing the way embryos are monitored and selected for implantation in the womb – improving the future of IVF, and giving hope to families like the Potters all over the world.
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Make, Create, Innovate
Ingeborg and Erwin Hochmair with their multi-channel cochlear implant
‘Make, Create, Innovate’ airs within Quest Means Business In this ‘Make, Create, Innovate’, Nick Glass reports from Austria on an invention that has been changing the lives of the deaf, and those with partially impaired hearing.‘A soundless world with voiceless faces’, that’s how one person described being deaf to Ingeborg Hochmair. The 60-year-old Austrian academic has spent her life searching for ways to help the deaf hear once again, joined on her quest by her husband. The pair first met at the Vienna Technical University in 1975, where Erwin asked Ingeborg if she would help him develop the world’s first multi-channel cochlear implant – a device implanted in the inner ear. Composed of two sections; an external processor that converts sound into electrical signals and an internal implant that sends these signals to the brain, their invention was first implanted in 1977. Since then, the Hochmairs have sold more than 200,000 implants around the world through their Innsbruck-based company MED-EL. cnn.com/Make-Create-Innovate