Mark Lowen

Where did you find it? Wallet finders across Belfast have started calling me. Well, you're very kind. Why did you return it? You could have just taken the money.

So I dropped 10 wallets on the streets of Belfast. So how many do you think were offered back to me by kind strangers? Well, the answer is all 10. While our wallet experiment is not scientific, it does back up the evidence. Strangers are kinder than we think. So happy World Happiness Day, everyone.

So I dropped 10 wallets on the streets of Belfast. So how many do you think were offered back to me by kind strangers? Well, the answer is all 10. While our wallet experiment is not scientific, it does back up the evidence. Strangers are kinder than we think. So happy World Happiness Day, everyone.

So I dropped 10 wallets on the streets of Belfast. So how many do you think were offered back to me by kind strangers? Well, the answer is all 10. While our wallet experiment is not scientific, it does back up the evidence. Strangers are kinder than we think. So happy World Happiness Day, everyone.

still to come. The Tour de France is not the biggest bike race on Earth. It's the biggest annual sport event on Earth. And what the Tour de France showcases as well is the beauty of a place. And what better place to show that than Edinburgh?

still to come. The Tour de France is not the biggest bike race on Earth. It's the biggest annual sport event on Earth. And what the Tour de France showcases as well is the beauty of a place. And what better place to show that than Edinburgh?

The Tour de France is not the biggest bike race on earth. It's the biggest annual sporting event on earth. And what the Tour de France showcases as well is the beauty of the place. And what better place to show that than Edinburgh? I think the helicopter shots, the motorbike shots, wherever you're going to have a camera, it's going to showcase this incredible city.

The Tour de France is not the biggest bike race on earth. It's the biggest annual sporting event on earth. And what the Tour de France showcases as well is the beauty of the place. And what better place to show that than Edinburgh? I think the helicopter shots, the motorbike shots, wherever you're going to have a camera, it's going to showcase this incredible city.

Sunday Mass at the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in the heart of the old walled city of Bergamo. Outside, the narrow cobbled streets of Città Alta are packed with day-trippers, but inside, the old rituals still reassure the faithful.

Sunday Mass at the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in the heart of the old walled city of Bergamo. Outside, the narrow cobbled streets of Città Alta are packed with day-trippers, but inside, the old rituals still reassure the faithful.

The Sicilian filmmaker Stefano Savona spent months chronicling how people here responded to the pandemic for his award-winning documentary, The Walls of Bergamo.

The Sicilian filmmaker Stefano Savona spent months chronicling how people here responded to the pandemic for his award-winning documentary, The Walls of Bergamo.

In March 2020, the health system here was on its knees. You can hear it in the voice of the emergency responder. There aren't any ambulances, the hospitals don't have any oxygen, we have nothing. And the days to come are going to be even worse. Five years on, people are understandably still struggling to make sense of what happened.

In March 2020, the health system here was on its knees. You can hear it in the voice of the emergency responder. There aren't any ambulances, the hospitals don't have any oxygen, we have nothing. And the days to come are going to be even worse. Five years on, people are understandably still struggling to make sense of what happened.

Giovanni Cerasoli experienced Covid at first hand, first as a doctor and then seriously ill. as a patient. But through the suffering, he caught glimpses of a better way of being.

Giovanni Cerasoli experienced Covid at first hand, first as a doctor and then seriously ill. as a patient. But through the suffering, he caught glimpses of a better way of being.

The summer after the first devastating wave of Covid passed, they put up a memorial to the victims in Bergamo's main cemetery. 82-year-old Giovanni Mariani Seredo took me to see it.

The summer after the first devastating wave of Covid passed, they put up a memorial to the victims in Bergamo's main cemetery. 82-year-old Giovanni Mariani Seredo took me to see it.

At 10 o'clock every evening, as the waiters wipe down the tables at the Café del Tasso in Piazza Vecchia, the bell tower across the square rings out 100 times, as it has done since 1656. It's a reminder of the days when the bells would summon people back to the safety of the city. Covid, of course, respected no curfew and paid no heed to the city's stone walls.

At 10 o'clock every evening, as the waiters wipe down the tables at the Café del Tasso in Piazza Vecchia, the bell tower across the square rings out 100 times, as it has done since 1656. It's a reminder of the days when the bells would summon people back to the safety of the city. Covid, of course, respected no curfew and paid no heed to the city's stone walls.