Faranak Amidi presents The Fifth Floor, a weekly programme that revels in the variety and range of stories produced by the BBC World Service's language sections. Faranak joined the BBC Persian ...

Does a vintage poster auctioned this month disprove the long-believed location of the band’s 1965 performance?

The Hitchcock Estate’s 2,000 acres are known less for its tony accommodations — a bowling alley, two main houses, a tennis pavilion — than for its far-out history as an incubator of the counterculture ...