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When you’re in love, it seems as if the sun is always shining. But being in a relationship is not always like a bed of roses. How do we cope with each other when the butterflies have flown away? In Metropolis advice from all over the world on how to keep the love alive.

Italian men have to put a lot of work into satisfying their warm-blooded wives. One way to do it is by hiring Roy as a gift. Roy is a gigolo and for a reasonable price he gives the ladies the night of a lifetime. Tip from Italy: outsource your marital duties once in a while.

Mjuma form Kenya rather keeps her man satisfied herself. She never refuses her husband in bed and it is for this reasons she claims they are still very happy. And old school tip, but your guy will never cheat on you, says Mjuma.

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Denchio in the Philippines asks a shaman for advice. His wife left him and hasn’t responded to the roses and chocolate he has sent her. Now he resorts to black magic as a way of winning her back.

But what to do if you can’t find a wife at all? You may be suffering from bad karma. Anish in India gets advice from his astrologist: marry a cow. We follow him as he goes to a farm to pick up his mooing love.

Metropolis on relationship advice. Reports online Thursday February 23rd at 9.00 PM.   

Sometimes a person is really fed up with something; a chain smoker who doesn't handle New York's smoke policy any longer or a Chinese vegetarian who can't stand the fact that his country slaughters over 600.000 pigs for consumption every year.

Meet for instance do-gooder Jiang, who attempts to sell his pro-vegetarian talk to his Chinese fellow citizens, who are -let's face it- quite fond of meat dishes. Our reporter has been closely following him for years now, ever since he started his earlier protest against evironmental pollution. Nevertheless, his demonstrations were rather fruitless. In this episode we'll witness the efficiency of his anti-meat campaign.

Some people fiercely have to try and make their life a bit more pleasant. For example, hardcore smoker Audrey. She lives in New York and successfully avoids paying tobacco taxes by rolling her own cigarettes made of home-grown tobacco leaves. Fresh from her own garage. In India, taxi driver Shaji crawls with his bare knees across the roads in order to demonstrate the poor quality of it. And in Kenya we'll find a village consisting only of female inhabitants; they refuse to live with their violent husbands any longer. 

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In the Netherlands we are less radical, yet our intentions are just as good. Metropolis will accompany the protesters of "Strike out nature" when they are right in action. The intention behind their protest is to improve national environmental policy.

This is the limit! New reports online February 2 at 9.00 pm.

This week there is no new episode of Metropolis, but there are other developments going on. Bureau Buitenland just started with a radio version of our program.  Every week they highlight one theme from various countries- every day another country.  The podcasts are unfortunately only available in Dutch. 

Furthermore, we are already busy with new themes for the summer season and for those who didn't know, on facebook we are quite active. Did you like our page yet? If not, do it now! Each week you'll find some nice previews of our broadcasts, funny street interviews and other special images.

We couldn't do nothing this week. That's why we pay extra attention to the five most viewed videos of the past few years. 

World Champion jerking-off from Japan

Be a jurk in Bulgaria

Become a men in Nicaragua

The hooters-girls from Beijing

'Black lifestyle' in Japan 

Next week there will be a new episode of Metropolis as usual, this time about Resistance. 

In the Netherlands we don't abandon an addict. We distribute cheap beer, hand out heroin for free and if necessary we offer a sleep spot. In the rest of the world our correspondents didn't find soft treatments, but only rehabilitation by praying, vomiting and tying up.

In Burkina Faso vicar Samuel helps 21-year old Sori quit smoking weed. If Sori gets agressive, he ties him up to a tree until he has calmed down. Meanwhile the vicar and his followers are praying for him in front of the tree. That sounds like a harsh measure, but it's effective. Because now he'll certainly remains clean, according to the vicar.

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Another striking detoxifation cure is found by our correspondent in Thailand. The 24-year old Jan was a former heroin smoker and now she occupies herself with a daily vomit ritual in a rehab temple. In Indonesia we take a look inside the only Islamic rehab in the country. Muslims who couldn't resist the temptation of narcotics come here to sober up. They mainly do this by praying, at least eight hours a day.  

Here in the Netherlands our therapies are a lot more comfortable. Mark wants to stop drinking and therefore attends an anthroposophic rehab clinic in Zeist. As part of the therapy he can bathe for hours, every day he's being swaddled like a baby and every night the nurse puts him to bed. That sounds a lot better than "Plan Boozer" in Nicaragua, where notorious alcoholics will be removed from the streets, shaved and forced to go into rehab.  

New reports online January 26 at 9.00 pm.