42: The Answer to Almost Everything(2021)

series - first aired/released 2021-09-04 - audience 9.6

Documentary

Directed by Alexander Lahl, Caroline Hoffmann, Gunnar Mergner, Hendrik Löbbert, Lina Schuller, Luise Donschen, Max Mönch, Thomas Kulik

What would we be without mucus? Can we live on water? How much does life weigh? Finding out the answers is the aim of ARTE's new science show. In a nod to Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", where the figure 42 is the ultimate answer to all questions, 42 tries to provide the answers.