In the most infamous district of Tokyo, the outcast youth of Japan come together at night.

Symbols of eroticism, fertility, power or protection, our society is obsessed with breasts. 

The Marquise de Flers decides to marry off her granddaughter, the jewel in the crown of the French aristocracy, to Ryno de Marigny.

A blueprint for a new era: Dua Lipa epitomises the rise of a pop generation that thinks digitally – and is taking the world by storm.

Goddess Athena urges Zeus to help Odysseus, the last Greek fighter who has not yet returned home to Ithaca

Occupation, displacement and war crimes: according to the UN, radical Israelis in the West Bank are violating international law.

From Italy to Greece, from the Bosphorus to the deserts of Egypt, the Byzantine Empire dominated the Mediterranean world for nearly a thousand years.

After years of relative calm, extreme violence and drug trafficking is back in Columbia. An investigation.

The son of a merchant who gave up his riches, Francis of Assisi made poverty an ideal and turned the religious conventions of his time on their head.

Off the north coast of Corsica, strange circular forms on the seabed were discovered in 2011. But what are they?

Art as a mirror of inner struggles: A portrait of the French-American artist Louise Bourgeois.

Renowned for its unusual blend of art, architecture and nature, the museum boasts one of the finest collections of modern art.

The turbulent history of Hungary through its great composers: Bela Bartok, György Ligeti and György Kurtag.

Honoured and persecuted: The life and work of the great Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.

His marriage is on the rocks, his career at a low ebb: at the age of 50, italian director Roberto Rossellini dares to make a fresh start.

In the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the figure of the fool was omnipresent in art.

Revisiting the key breakthroughs in history that allowed us to understand the world of microbes.  

Examining how the principles of gravity and friction were understood through the ages by great scientists: Ptolemy, Galileo, Newton and Einstein.

The story of Greek artists Memos and Zizi Makris takes us from occupied Athens under to post-war Paris.