What keeps you up at night?
Episodes
The Nights The Books Needed Saving
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On January 12 2014, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France faced an unprecedented water issue: The pipes broke. Three levels were infiltrated by 25m³ ...
The Night the UK Dumped the EU
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎈On the night of June 23rd, 2016, Brexit marked the first-ever breakup in European Union history. After more than 40 years together in an emotional...
The Night The Far Right Became Mainstream in France
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On June 9, 2024, the European Parliament saw a significant shift to the far right. This unprecedented gain was felt across the continent, but in Franc...
The Night One French Actress Re-ignited The French #MeToo Movement
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎬✨On February 28, 2020, the César ceremony, the French Oscars, takes place in the Salle Pleyel (Paris). But this year's ceremony is not like any...
The Nights The Ground Shook In Turkey
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What would you do if you were witnessing one of the worst earthquakes of the century? Or worse, if you got the news that your family was stuck in it w...
The Night America Chose Trump, Again
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On November 5th, 2024, Americans headed to the polls in what many called one of the most pivotal elections in the country’s history. In Paris, the f...
The night I didn’t sleep, new season coming soon
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This season on ‘The Night I Didn’t Sleep’, we bring you first-person accounts of watershed moments – from natural disasters to cultural shifts...
Mo Ibrahim
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
📰 Mo Ibrahim is Anglo-Sudanese engineer, businessman and philanthropist. In 1998, he founded the mobile phone operator Celtel, a pioneer in providi...
Annette Young
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
📰 Anette Young, is a senior journalist and TV news presenter for France 24, as well as the creator and host of the @_51percent, a show about the mo...
Filippo Grandi
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
📰 Filippo Grandi is the head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a UN agency headquartered in Geneva offering assistance to those...
Jelani Cobb
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Doctor Jelani Cobb is Dean of Columbia Journalism School, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and board member for the American Jou...
The night(s) Ramallah was raided
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On June 8th, 2023, the Israeli military raided Ramallah in the West Bank. Khaled Abu Qare was out in the streets. He was used to the regular presence...
The night France won its first star
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On July 12th 1998 France won the world cup. 3:0 against Brazil, and on top of that, in the home stadium in Paris. It was a night of ecstatic celebrati...
The night the far right haunted French people’s sleep
14 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On April 21, 2002, an earthquake shook France. The far right made it to the second round of the presidential election. It was a first in the Fifth Rep...
The night(s) the world agreed on 1,5°C
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
December 12th, 2015. The newly adopted Paris Agreement makes headlines across the world. 196 delegations managed to adopt a legally binding agreement ...
The night(s) love won in France
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On April 23rd, 2013, France legalised same-sex marriage. The adoption of this law followed several long days and sleepless nights of debates in Parlia...
The night(s) of Maidan
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Almost two years ago Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which destroyed tens of cities and killed thousands of civilians. But the war d...
Teaser
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What goes on in the heads of leaders faced with the world's major challenges? What keeps them up at night? How do they fall asleep when they have so m...
Louise Mushikiwabo
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Louise Mushikiwabo is the 4th Secretary-General of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). Previously served as the Minister of Fore...
Kang Kyung-wha
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
South Korean diplomat and renowned political leader, she served as the Foreign Minister between 2017 and 2021, and was the first woman at this positio...
Maria Ressa
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Ressa is an acclaimed Filipino and American journalist. In 2021, she won the Nobel Prize, alongside Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, in recogn...
Anne Poiret
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Poiret is a French journalist and documentary filmmaker, recognized for her extensive work on the aftermath of armed conflicts. In her films, she...
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a Senegalese philosopher and Professor of French, and Chair of the Department of French and Romance Philology with a sec...
Arancha Gonzalez
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Arancha Gonzalez is the Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po and a lawyer who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Europ...
Mia Mottley
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados and lead Head of Government within Caribbean Community (CARICOM) with responsibility for the Single Market and...
Omar Alshogre
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Omar Alshogre, Syrian human rights defender and former political prisoner, was at Sciences Po in 2023 to present the "Caesar" exhibition of photos doc...
Rebeca Grynspan
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rebeca Grynspan is the UNCTAD Secretary-General. Previously, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations and Vice President of Costa Rica. 🔈📣...
Teaser
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What goes on in the heads of leaders faced with the world's major challenges? What keeps them up at night? How do they fall asleep when they have so m...