hundreds of years ago sure there are things to come of all the people. that we have shaping society. with ideas. our small three part documentary starts january thirteenth on t w. five or on a welcome to another exciting edition of your own max with near host meghan lee we've got a lot to celebrate on the show so let's get right to it here's a look at what's coming up. silent night the world's most famous carol was first heard two hundred years ago. happy birthday queen sylvia of sweden turning seventy

five. and christmas classic how to prepare a perfect roast goose. but we kick off today's show with the song silent night in the holiday season wouldn't be complete without some rendition of it but did you know that this christmas carol is two hundred years old it was first performed at a church in ourselves in austria a young priest wrote the lyrics two years before and the text was then set to music by a local teacher. so for the final part of our series home for christmas we had to austria to see the place worse tell it night has its origins. the. how.

he. moved. slightly. even if some have to brush up on the lyrics almost everyone knows the world's most famous christmas song it originated here in the austrian village of over and off in the run up to christmas the small town years on spec offers visitors silent night tours to eliminate the songs history just the stuff i normally start here with this picture. over here you can see the side that my chapel. organist and teacher friends of a group are and the young parish priest yosef more composed the music and wrote the lyrics and together performed the song an open door on christmas eve in eighteen eighteen traveling salesman took the song to markets across europe while christian

missionary spread even further around the globe. as if the missionaries realized that hobbit a christian message and was easy for families to learn that's probably why it became so popular and they didn't if we can put off since the nineteenth century the song has been translated into more than three hundred languages. that you. know whether carol has been recorded as often as the f. are green from austria with versions by a series of superstars. the

locals an open door stage a historical play in various locations that dramatize is the origin of silent night after the end of the napoleonic wars. that have. yet to sort through and of and the gun it was a terrible time the poverty created by the wards and the molding troops that passed through the village this cute blend of today the song stay. vokes the hope for peace visitors to the silent night chapel can listen to the original version with its six verses and accompanying guitar chords. oh. god. in

two thousand and eleven unesco added silent night to its intangible cultural heritage list sept primal hopes the song's popularity will last for generations to come. most folks who use new we have to try to maintain the tradition within the families so that children grow up as things it is not easy in the digital age of because of the internet it gets just don't sing songs like that anymore and it was all sing and i brought the human a memo so. some sixty thousand visitors flock to the small village every year most of them in the pre-christian a season tourists and locals alike enjoy the festive atmosphere around the silent night chapel this is all it's a quintessential christmas song that is always lovely because everyone associates it with the special memories that brings people together particularly around christmas eve with all of us on one side we had to phonied and then. if we had the famous. it's not our fault it's known around the world and that's why open doors

has become a place of pilgrimage around christmas with its message of peace silent night continues to bring people together in oberndorf and around the world. for our draw from a couple of weeks ago we had asked you to send us in your version of silent night and we received quite a few entries here some of them now. do you know. ok as always there can only be one winner and you just saw her there that's the very international euro max you're. upon who is talking about lives in jordan and

she loves germany just as well so congratulations you have one yourself in the original christmas pyramid ok moving on now to a look at other stories making headlines on the cultural scene starting with some furry friends who are also getting into the christmas spirit more on that coming up in today's express. the animals at london zoo got a taste of christmas on thursday the western lowland gorillas took awhile to suss out how i've been coming to work but they soon got to the tasty brussels sprouts inside. camels ganga's and new me with that breakfast in a christmas stocking. while the asiatic linus work have to pick catfish anough british christmas putting the papal scented with cinnamon and not make.

out and about in iceland again according to a centuries old tradition thirteen trolls arrive from the frozen north to frighten or entertain children before christmas songs it's why for example is out to steal food legend has it that the trolls mother used to eat naughty children. but these days the new lads are more into having fun and bringing gifts for the children. to . santa and his busy elves have officially left their village in finland to begin their annual trip around the globe. he was spotted gliding through the snow in his reindeer drawn. sleigh on the edge of the arctic circle. the name ian left land was named sam his official home in two thousand and ten every year more than half a million visitors from all over the world come here to visit father christmas.

so santa claus is out and about trying to make children's wishes come true so what do you think a queen would wish for as she celebrates a milestone birthday i'm talking about sweden's queen sylvia who is turning seventy five queen sylvia will certainly be spending the holidays surrounded by her big family including seven grandchildren here's a look back at her life so far. green sylvia is admired far beyond sweden's borders she was born in germany to a brazilian mother and a german father so many germans have always considered her to be their queen. the bombing won't change the perception in sweden is different in sweden the main figure is the king and he has a great what all the germans perception is there's queen sylvia who happens to have a husband. for more than four decades sylvia has personified the perfect

queen standing by her husband king carl the sixteenth to stuff like here at the annual nobel prize ceremony in stock on but she wasn't born into this role. still you are not came into the world in heidelberg in one thousand nine hundred forty three in one nine hundred seventy two she met swedish crown prince congress stopped at the olympic games in munich where she was working as an interpreter. in march nine hundred seventy six you officially presented sylvia as his fiance. it's funny. i didn't decide to marry a king i decided to marry the man i loved in my. i'm saddened in monday the couple married three months after announcing their engagement and sylvia quickly won over the hearts of the swedish people to this day many are convinced that sylvia is the best thing that could have happened to the swedish royal family. they credit her

with having transformed her husband proud good stuff from a playboy prince into a respectable monarch his or herself became a modern hard working queen it's asked the colonel going in there she was the first queen in sweden's thousand year history of course the first commoner but also the first queen to interpret this office as a job and and to fill it with real purpose. or work on behalf of children the disabled and the underprivileged quickly became her trademark she serves as a patron of dozens of charitable organizations. busy had i'm a function of the folk when she set up various foundations and now she's considered one of the experts worldwide on children's rights issues with. funding for and that's united nations and some other really big institutions have great respect for her and i think that the. queen sylvia made it clear she wanted to bring up her

children herself the family came across as modern and in touch with the people and willing to speak openly about their struggles. and what she was very courageous in publicly admitting that her children were experiencing problems and that the crown princess had anorexia and was also dyslexic and her son had dyslexia too but legal she felt that being open about it would help her children and other children too they got the new. queen silvio also weathered a number of storms the image of the happy royal couple became somewhat tarnished during the one nine hundred ninety s. . that what. ok he. was ruthless in reporting on the couple's private lives about affairs the king had an alleged trips to the red light district . road you that's a physical obviously it must have been a nightmare for the queen. we think is the fuss for next session invited for but it

had all long since been cleared up between the two of them and no one ever knew about it. they could have been so into the queen's decision to stand by him and to continue her role in such an exemplary fashion won her a lot of credit in sweden claim to guy. the royal family held in advance celebration for queen sylvia's birthday this week at a theater in stockholm. conference victoria under husband don you know and prince confident bent his wife sophia were among the guests. sylvia's youngest daughter princess margaret and her husband were also there to celebrate the queen's birthday and honor her for her untiring efforts to help others. in the new year something unusual just might be spotted on the streets in germany in east scooter now they're still not permitted here but france has introduced them in paris and it's proving to be an effective way to maneuver through heavy traffic

. east coasters are taking over the streets of paris and most every street corner you can see these trucks in that electric as the french call them just waiting to be rented. unlock the scooter using an athlete and then drive off at speeds of up to twenty five kilometers an hour. to get them to depend on my work in customer service in paris the scooter is practical ecological and saves me time so i go with all. the pick up my kid from school little screws or this good or is very useful for small shopping trips. which. a company called lime started paris's first rental service a few months ago now four companies are competing for this growing market. have been used more than a million times we average around thirty thousand troops per day. paris is plagued

by smog and traffic jams so scooters have caught on quickly the city is looking for ways to get cars off the streets and promote alternative modes of transport but a scooter like this is meant to carry only one person so what's allowed and what's not. the city plans to pass a law governing the use of the scooters next year. something that can go up to twenty five kilometers an hour has no place on the sidewalk so it's dangerous so there'll be a one hundred thirty five you're all fine for that. goal safety first but it can still be fun and apps hills users where to find one and once they're done scooting around they can just leave it. and next we're off to ukraine to visit a toy factory that takes the traditional approach to manufacturing now there's no sign of plastic at the u. gears workshop that's because every model is made of wood over the past few years

a company has used several crowdfunding campaigns to get on their feet and their toys have become a huge hit. each of these models comprises hundreds of individual punks he would find any plastic trees the trains and trucks consist excusably all intricately assembled pieces of wood mountains propelled forward fine rubber bands. on just vehicles to choose from and no one expected us to create a musical instrument you can assemble and play yourself with. like the old masters our customers can build an instrument from the middle ages. the yugas company was founded in twenty fourteen and has been exporting toys to phones the world over and. to be successful with what models in the past again every angle must be right every detail must be exact it often takes thousands of attempts until

everything is perfect. tension is work hard to achieve this. what attracts them to it. it's always interesting to come up with your own ideas and then turn them into reality it's. up to the design has been finalized they use an laser to cut the pieces from the new plywood. customers compress them out of the sheets of home and assemble them according to a blueprint. some thirty models are now available with something for everyone from a guinness to a professional craftsman but sometimes customers have special requests to. southeast asia our partners asked us to put something other than a ballerina in the middle of the model that could symbolize happiness for example. the ballerina isn't popular there. it's always about giving our customers things

that mean something to them. then they sell better. assembly of the tractable model with ninety seven pots takes just three quarters of an i want to complete a treat for an experience model make. the most complex models consist of almost six hundred pounds. final puzzle seem to be catching on again in the digital world production is currently running full speed ahead and. the model still being packaged here will end up all over the world in time for christmas so. the models are designed and manufactured here in the ukrainian capital kiev. but next then a tenth of production remains in the country. thank

of. overseas customers have long since discovered the former. facebook and instagram split the wood even without expensive advertising you get sales it's models in around eighty countries and even big companies are interested in a cooperation but what comes next. the goal is not to build bigger and bigger models or become even more complex there are already clear limits after which would be so difficult that most people couldn't assemble them anymore words were more concerned with aesthetics and originality. thank you like this innovative fortune say thank you thank you thank you incidentally you get his hands full ukranian gives a name that describes the halls of these modern day mechanical toys thank

you and finally good. is the traditional christmas meal for most families here in germany and one place where you can enjoy it is at the hester bag estate in brandenburg just outside berlin this is where six hundred geese roam free now we visit the estates restaurant chef to find out how to prepare the perfect christmas roast goose dinner. those are at. least free range peace were raised at who tested bad and estates in eastern german state of brandon book stand nine months old and weigh about five pounds each . estate. says that the birds feed on grain that's grown right on the farm part of his policy off humane treatment. and yet also

little from them today does what they enjoy being able to run around in the open they can pack away of the grass for us and that's about as healthy an environment as you could imagine one guy said under it's a natural way to raise a cross was. he said they can live just as they have for ages or and that's what this also contributes to the production of hormones and harms the bad sense of wellbeing groups one morning we've been here and. that's good news i was more. there has to pakistan it was built in two thousand and one the main building contains living quarters and office space. on the right hand side of the complex there's a farm produce shop and arrest jones went visitors can enjoy a homegrown meal. brandenburg resident benyamin schultz trained terraces chef. right now

he's preparing stuffing for a dish of roast goose. doesn't cause a shipload so this is a standard regional recipe i'm using apples oranges onions mug war time place and then i rub salt and pepper into the meat and both inside and outside also in the stone and if you. first showed slices an onion. and apple on an orange. being pretty insane this recipe include i love to vitamins and nutrients. the secret to creating the perfect roast goose is in the cooking time the meat should be tender while the skin should be crispy. it's healthy it's a temple to accept the temperature for the goose is gone eighty degrees celsius for eight hours all. others with the go through this slow cooking the acids from the

fruit will permeate the meat slowly and evenly. in the fish ensued. after the long cooking time you can tell whether the goose is well cooked by trying the joints. now place the goose breast side up on accounting board and come to. the choices pieces go on to the dinner plate what's left will be used to season the gravy together with roasted vegetables or does them both know what's left is just skin and bones but you can cook out along with it this gives it a wonderful flavor long as there's nothing better than to put the. at test a back they say if they roast goose with kale and red cabbage the chef uses lots of ingredients to spice up these winter vegetables. doesn't. make it special sauce to the red cabbage and. so there's also cloves cinnamon a leaf all spice and

a bit of goose fat in it some of the. now it's time to serve the food alongside the kenyan red cabbage benyamin schultz of spectating dumplings made from rule and pre-cook potatoes. then best the roast goose and then you have it the classic german christmas dinner. what drink goes best with such a hearty meal. for forty two c. it is a good to see oh my favorite is of course it's bone and fruity and due to the variety of grapes you can drink it while it's young yet it's strong enough to hold its own against the fatty gibsons on very thin no matter what. don't forget to raise a toast and enjoy your roast beans.

and finally before we go we want to let you in on the winner of this week's draw now we have asked you what you need to make a perfect christmas and some of you answered with pictures of cookies and lots of various ornaments including a nativity scene but the winner comes from john gomez in columbia who said crew the christmas tree is the icing on the cake for him so congrats to you john you have won yourself and the exclusive in your own max watch and with that it is time to say goodbye but we will be back tomorrow with the highlights edition so closely that. next time on your own next highlights tour with the german city of constant arms decked out for the festive season. two french artists and their artistic like creation. and find out how to

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