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KaDeWe: Our Time Is Now, Valerie Stoll and Neele Bucholz

History TV and radio in the UK: what’s on our screens this week?

The Serpent Queen stars Samantha Morton as Catherine de' Medici

The Serpent Queen The STARZ drama offers a caricature of the real Catherine de' Medici

Prince Charles in 1969

King Charles III The life of the reigning king

Elizabeth II poses for a portrait in Buckingham Palace in December 1958

Queen Elizabeth II 50+ facts about her life and reign

Cast and crew filming an episode of EastEnders in 1998 (Photo by Polly Borland/Getty Images)

BBC at 100 How EastEnders saved the BBC

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Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen in House of the Dragon (Photo by Ollie Upton/HBO)

House of the Dragon The real historical event behind the Game of Thrones prequel

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Composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky rehearses with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ahead of a concert to be broadcast on the Third Programme, 1958

BBC at 100 The Third Programme: a cultural institution

Thomas Seymour (Tom Cullen) and Katherine Parr (Jessica Raine) in Becoming Elizabeth

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The presenters of the recently launched BBC Radio 1 assemble for a group photo outside Broadcasting House, 1967. (Photo by Robert Stiggins/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

BBC at 100 Sounds of the Sixties

David Attenborough with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, in a famous scene from 1979’s Life on Earth

BBC at 100 The rise of natural history television and David Attenborough

African-American double act Buck and Bubbles (Ford L Washington and John W Sublett) were part of a coterie of entertainers of colour broadcast on the BBC in the 1930s (Photo by UPI/Bettmann via Getty Images)

BBC at 100 Mirroring Multicultural Britain

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Dakota Johnson stars as Anne Elliot in Netflix's 2022 adaptation of Persuasion, the final completed novel by Jane Austen

Persuasion “The essence and spirit of Austen’s work are fundamentally changed”