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Fifty years old this month, Kraftwerk's single Radioactivity was a groundbreaking track that morphed into the German electronic pioneers' most political protest song.

In May 1917, three Portuguese children declared that they had seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary in a meadow. In 1992, a witness told the BBC about the "miracles".

William Golding's story of boys descending into violence is a 20th-Century classic. Now Adolescence writer Jack Thorne is behind a new TV version speaking to a rancorous world.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was met with horror, then revered. A century later, the piece was reinterpreted by US artist Henry Taylor, and Picasso's masterwork remains contentious - why?

When Hudson Hawk was released 35 years ago, it was "savaged" by critics and was "notorious for its behind-the-scenes chaos". How did it build such an enthusiastic following?

From Heidi Klum as a veiled Vestal virgin to singer Ciara as a gold-encrusted bust of Nefertiti, here is the art behind the fashion at the Met Gala.

Based on the novel The Other Bennet Sister, a new TV imagining of Mary Bennet's life has won the hearts of British viewers. Here's why this Austen character is so relatable today.

VE Day on 8 May 1945 marked the end of World War Two in Europe. Forty years later, the Queen told the BBC how she slipped out of Buckingham Palace to join the joyous crowds.

The new season of HBO's Euphoria, and Apple TV's series Margo's got Money Troubles, both feature lead characters who are adult content creators. But they don't tell the whole story.

US TV comedy is the latest battleground for millennials, boomers and Gens Z and X. Just as it did in the 1970s, the generation gap makes us laugh - can the laughter help heal the rift?