A Sultry MonthJune 1846. As London swelters in a heatwave sunstroke strikes, meat rots, ice is coveted a glamorous coterie of writers and artists spend their summer wining, dining and opining. With the ringletted 'face of an Egyptian cat goddess', Elizabeth Barrett is courted by her secret fianc, the poet Robert Browning, who plots their elopement to Italy; Keats roams Hampstead Heath; Wordsworth visits the zoo; Dickens is intrigued by Tom Thumb; the Carlyles host

her eventual happy marriage

Our Planet

Unable to speak English at first

a spectral hound that appears to people before they die

Britain is a land riven by anarchy

and temporary accommodation - and a feeling of displacement and separation follows

leading Wales to four Six Nations titles

conservationists

a committed Nazi and close friend of Adolf Hitler

stuck behind a rusty old car

Martial law has been imposed

passionate and painful devotion to art and to one another