BBC four In the final episode of the series, our intrepid cultural explorers Janina Ramirez and Alistair Sooke set off on their most adventurous trip yet – to Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. A former Soviet state, bordering the Caspian Sea, Baku offers a tantalising mix of the ancient and modern – at the crossroads of East meets West, on the ancient silk trading route. It is also an authoritarian state, where 2026-05-20 2026-05-20 2026-05-20 Long-running general knowledge quiz that tests the intellectual powers of the brightest undergraduates in Britain. Launched in 1962 and hosted by Bamber Gascoigne, the show achieved cult status with teams from two different rival colleges pitting their wits against each other each week. The questions are as varied and as tough as they can be, and competitors risk having hard-earned points deducted 2026-05-20 British quiz show, presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell, in which teams compete in a tournament of finding connections between seemingly unrelated clues. Each episode features two teams of three people competing in four rounds of gameplay. Each of the four rounds involve connections but they are not obvious or easy. The four rounds are ''What is the Connection?'', ''What Comes Fourth?'', ''Connect 2026-05-20 Physicist Dr Helen Czerski explores the narrow band of temperature that has led to life on Earth. She reveals how life began in a dramatic place where hot meets cold, and how every single living creature on Earth depends on temperature for its survival. She uncovers the extraordinary natural engineering that animals have evolved to keep their bodies at the right temperature. And she witnesses the 2026-05-20 In April 1955 Ruth Ellis shot her lover David Blakely dead. It's a case that shocked the nation and it still fascinates today. It has its place in ushering in the defence of diminished responsibility and the eventual abolishment of capital punishment. We all think we know the story, but why, when it was seemingly such an open and shut case, does it still divide opinion on whether Ruth Ellis got th 2026-05-20 2026-05-20 2026-05-20 2026-05-20 Controversial, witty, irreverent – Britain's best-known screenwriter, Andrew Davies, has created some of the most iconic small-screen dramas of the past 50 years. At the age of 82 he is following his smash hit adaptation of War and Peace with another global epic, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. As he watches the production come to life during 2018, he looks back at the influence of his childhood in 2026-05-20 Physicist Dr Helen Czerski explores the narrow band of temperature that has led to life on Earth. She reveals how life began in a dramatic place where hot meets cold, and how every single living creature on Earth depends on temperature for its survival. She uncovers the extraordinary natural engineering that animals have evolved to keep their bodies at the right temperature. And she witnesses the 2026-05-21 In April 1955 Ruth Ellis shot her lover David Blakely dead. It's a case that shocked the nation and it still fascinates today. It has its place in ushering in the defence of diminished responsibility and the eventual abolishment of capital punishment. We all think we know the story, but why, when it was seemingly such an open and shut case, does it still divide opinion on whether Ruth Ellis got th 2026-05-21 2026-05-21 Long-running general knowledge quiz that tests the intellectual powers of the brightest undergraduates in Britain. Launched in 1962 and hosted by Bamber Gascoigne, the show achieved cult status with teams from two different rival colleges pitting their wits against each other each week. The questions are as varied and as tough as they can be, and competitors risk having hard-earned points deducted 2026-05-21 British quiz show, presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell, in which teams compete in a tournament of finding connections between seemingly unrelated clues. Each episode features two teams of three people competing in four rounds of gameplay. Each of the four rounds involve connections but they are not obvious or easy. The four rounds are ''What is the Connection?'', ''What Comes Fourth?'', ''Connect 2026-05-21 2026-05-21 Der geniale Regisseur Howard Hawks verstand nie so recht, warum alle Jane Russell und Marilyn Monroe in „Blondinen bevorzugt“ so sexy fanden. Privat sei Russell eher der Typ Hausfrau und guter Kumpel gewesen, und die von Selbstzweifeln geplagte Monroe konnte angeblich halb nackt am Set sitzen, ohne dass sie ein Mann beachtet hätte. „Aber wenn du sagtest: ,Kamera! Und bitte!‘, dann passierte etwas, 2026-05-21 2026-05-21 Sie haben keinen Cent auf der Naht, dennoch mieten die New Yorker Models Tschicki (Lauren Bacall), Tütü (Betty Grable, „Die Frau im Hermelin“) und Pola (Marilyn Monroe) ein Luxusappartement. Für die Jagd auf reiche Männer braucht frau ja ein vorzeigbares Hauptquartier. Auf der Suche nach dem Richtigen erlebt das liebenswerte Trio einige blaue Wunder…\n\nEigentlich müsste der Film etwa 6 Minuten lä 2026-05-21 „Jeder erinnert sich an seinen ersten Job“, glaubt Colin Clark. Doch nicht alle sind so aufregend wie jener, den der 23-Jährige 1956 ergattert: In den Londoner Pinewood Studios dreht Shakespeare-Experte Laurence Olivier mit Marilyn Monroe die Komödie „Der Prinz und die Tänzerin“, Colin ist dabei dritter Regieassistent, sprich: Mädchen für alles. \n\nWährend Olivier hofft, sich an Marilyns Seite zu 2026-05-21 Sylvia Syms looks at the handsome heroes and gorgeous heroines, pin-ups and bombshells who came to be known as cinema's greatest sex symbols. They were the actors who made audiences' hearts beat fastest – the men and women whom the camera just seemed to love that little bit more than most. The programme hears from the stars themselves talking about what their sex symbol status meant to them, and t 2026-05-21 2026-05-21