Culture

From a luxe haven with dizzying ocean vistas to the highest private home on the US west coast, these sky-high masterworks of design are among the most breathtaking ever built.

Ahead of the Academy Awards, here are the BBC film critics' final expert predictions.

Oscar-nominated film Hamnet has brought Tudor architecture and interiors to the fore. And there are plenty of houses around the UK still showcasing this historic way of living.

The new space epic starring Ryan Gosling as a solo astronaut trying to save humanity is 'zippily entertaining' throughout.

The Portland spy ring trial began on 13 March 1961. The BBC reported on a Cold War tale of espionage, adultery, exorcism – and a deceptively ordinary-looking bungalow.

Traditionally, younger actresses have been favoured by the Oscars – but as BBC research shows, that's changing. Is it a sign that female ageism in the film industry is on its way out?

In 1946, less than a year after the end of World War Two, Britain's wartime leader sounded an urgent warning about the Soviet threat to the West.

In 1957, the painter showed the BBC how he built up his pictures of industrial urban life from his imagination, and described the loneliness that informed them.

Shergar was the world's most famous stallion. When armed men seized him from an Irish stud farm on 8 February 1983, the BBC reported on a sensational true crime saga.

In a BBC archive clip, archaeologist Howard Carter describes the moment on 12 February 1924 when he and his team became the first people in 3,300 years to meet the Egyptian boy king.

Frank Serpico was shot on 3 February 1971, after exposing corruption in the NYPD. The following year, the BBC reported on the "widespread" rot in the Big Apple's police force.

For years, UK politician Jeremy Thorpe's affair was a secret – but when his former lover Norman Scott blurted out the truth, an astounding story emerged.