Culture

VE Day on 8 May 1945 marked the end of World War Two in Europe. Forty years later, the Queen told the BBC how she slipped out of Buckingham Palace to join the joyous crowds.

The new season of HBO's Euphoria, and Apple TV's series Margo's got Money Troubles, both feature lead characters who are adult content creators. But they don't tell the whole story.

US TV comedy is the latest battleground for millennials, boomers and Gens Z and X. Just as it did in the 1970s, the generation gap makes us laugh – can the laughter help heal the rift?

Rose Dugdale rejected her privileged background and joined the IRA. In April 1974, reported the BBC, she took part in "one of the largest art heists in history".

In April 1996, two years after Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's death, fans could bid on everything from her school textbook to her diamond engagement ring. The BBC was at the auction.

Dr Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the hallucinatory effects of LSD in April 1943. In 1986, he told the BBC about a "terrifying" bicycle ride home from the laboratory.

On 12 April 1955, Dr Jonas Salk announced that his vaccine was safe and effective – but he refused to profit from it.

The Unabomber's campaign of violence had baffled investigators for almost two decades. The BBC reported on his arrest 30 years ago, when he "laid a trail to his own front door".