Culture

Pattinson has been having an exceptional year on screen – and that continues with his dizzying performance in this dark media satire about a 2000s US reality TV show.

By sticking a banana to a wall with duct tape and calling it art, Maurizio Cattelan created one of the greatest cultural debates of recent times.

The new film by Irish director Martin McDonagh stars John Malkovich as a 1970s agent wrestling with his conscience and in danger of spilling secrets. It's a spy yarn with real bite.

In 1972, pioneering journalist and activist Gloria Steinem – who has died at the age of 92 – co-founded the groundbreaking publication Ms Magazine.

In August 1966, a US astronomy professor shared his astonishing findings with the BBC. He believed that the Neolithic stone circle was built to predict eclipses.

In 1911, a US professor claimed he found the secret mountain stronghold of the last Incan king. 53 years later, a new explorer proved him wrong – and the BBC followed in his footsteps.

Thirty years after the bombing of Nagasaki, a US physicist who helped to assemble the bomb revealed to the BBC the decision-making behind the blast.

In 1977, the BBC looked back at the summer of 1944, when Allied agents smuggled pieces of Hitler's V2 rocket by hiding them in the apartment of a German officer.