Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
Constructed between 1175 and 1490, Wells Cathedral in Somerset was the earliest English Cathedral to be built in the Gothic style. Among its notable features are a clock, which is said to have one of the oldest mechanisms in Britain.
Cloudesley Shovell was an English Naval Officer who had a distinguished career and ended up as Admiral of the Fleet. He is remembered for his death as much as for his life.
The lost gardens of Heligan are located near Mevagissey, Cornwall. They are a rediscovered delight, typical of the 19th-century Gardenesque style - a term coined by Scottish botanist John Claudius Loudin, to describe a type of garden design that incorporates both formal and picturesque styles from the past.
Though the phrase is often quoted as a description of the life of our ancestors, especially in the Stone Age, 'Nasty, brutish and short' is actually taken from Thomas Hobbes' book Leviathan, published in 1651, and a reference to contemporary events.
From 1870, the small Cornish seaside village of Porthcurno - just south of Land's End - became a hub of the British telecommunications industry. PK Porthcurno, The Museum of Global Communications, celebrates this history.
Cyclist Eileen Sheridan rose to fame in the 1940s and 1950s with her record-breaking rides around Britain. Her performances and diminutive 4 foot 11" height earned her the nickname 'the Mighty Atom'. She broke all the Women's Road Records. Born in Coventry in 1923, she still lives with her family in Middlesex. She has been described as captivating the public's imagination, and changing attitudes to women's sport.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.