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Very exciting to be here. But im trying to understand what has happened to this land of yours, because when you arrived here, this was an intensively farmed land, wasnt it . It was. My husband, charlie, inherited it from his grandparents when he was in his early 20s, and this was back in the 1980s. And every inch of the land was ploughed, it was producing arable crops and dairy. And we fully expected to be farmers for the rest of our lives. Mm. 17 years on, we were £1. 5 million in debt, tearing our hair out and realised that, you know, this is very marginal land. Were walking on 320 metres o...

get to spend time in museums. during my working life and i have witnessed something astonishing, how radically they have changed. the days of museums as grand, intimidating treasuries for dusty objects, they are long gone. they are becoming much more dynamic and inclusive, less solemn, less elitist, museums, i believe, are having a moment and that's what i want to explore. it is art of that's what i want to explore. it is part of the — that's what i want to explore. it is part of the story. _ that's what i want to explore. it 3 part of the story, what is that's what i want to explo...

about in a boat on this exact spot in the arabian gulf half a century ago, what would you have seen? not the futuristic cityscape before me today, that's for sure — because in recent decades, doha has witnessed unbelievably rapid change. i can't help thinking that the same is true of art history. this excitingly dynamic discipline that's always evolving. that's certainly the case with our ever expanding understanding of islamic art — the speciality of an extraordinary and recently revamped museum that's filled with masterpieces fashioned everywhere from the mediterranean to south...

shouting. saturday night in the port city of marseille, as france's summer of strife continues. police and protesters clashed, officers fired tear gas to disperse the crowds. unrest in france over the police killing of a 17—year—old continues. sirens wail. in paris, a beefed up security presence. they had been called on social media for protesters together in the city centre, but it seems they had been outnumbered by the police. it is lights out here in the french capital. the mood quickly changed. and for the last few days, it has been a familiar cycle of frustration, anger and ...

for 300 years, on and off, estonia was part of russia... ..ruled first by the tsarist empire, then the soviet union. links between the two are many and deep. in fact, around a third of the people here have russian as theirfirst language. but since the invasion of ukraine, the government has steered a course very firmly away from its powerful neighbour. there have been travel bans for russian tourists and something even more dramatic. historic russian and soviet monuments are being removed from public view, and notjust here. the other baltic states, latvia and lithuania, are making si...