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How to watch 'Fake or Fortune?' season 13 on BBC iPlayer (it's free)
How to watch 'Fake or Fortune?' season 13 on BBC iPlayer (it's free)

Tom's Guide

time21-07-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Tom's Guide

How to watch 'Fake or Fortune?' season 13 on BBC iPlayer (it's free)

It's the show that appeals to fans of detective shows, arts documentaries and reality TV with real jeopardy and so it's really no surprise that "Fake or Fortune" season 13 features the 50th episode of the popular show. The theme this season is "lost" works of art... Here's how to watch "Fake or Fortune?" season 13 online from anywhere with a VPN — and potentially for free. "Fake or Fortune?" season 13 premieres on Monday, July 21 on BBC One at 9 p.m. BST (4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT) and available to stream on BBC iPlayer later the same day.• WATCH FREE — BBC iPlayer (U.K.)• Watch anywhere — try NordVPN 100% risk free The first episode features a 1916 painting of a garden bought for £140 but if correctly attributed to Sir Winston Churchill could be worth up to £500,000 - as ever, provenance is everything. In episode two the stakes are even higher as two paintings turn up that the owners believe to have been the work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Forensic investigation is required here but there is also an exciting reveal as a conservator discovers a label hidden underneath the frame. The human stories and hopes of the current owners, as ever with this show, add layers of poignancy to the layers of paint being examined and evaluated. Read on to find out how to watch "Fake or Fortune?" season 13 online, on TV and potentially for free from anywhere in the world. "Fake or Fortune" season 13 premieres on Monday, July 21 on BBC One at 9 p.m. BST. It will also be available to stream FREE on BBC iPlayer. You must be a British resident and have a valid TV license with a U.K. postcode (SE1 7PB). If so, register for your account today. You don't have to miss it if you a Brit exiled abroad because you can unblock BBC iPlayer with a VPN. We'll show you how to do that below... Thanks to the wonders of a VPN (Virtual Private Network), "Fake or Fortune?" season 13 should be available to Brits no matter where they are. The software allows your devices to appear to be back in your home country regardless of where in the world you find yourself. Our favorite is NordVPN. There's a good reason you've heard of NordVPN. We specialize in testing and reviewing VPN services and NordVPN is the one we rate best. It's outstanding at unblocking streaming services, it's fast and it has top-level security features too. With over 7,000 servers, across 110 countries, and at a great price too, it's easy to recommend. You can even get an Amazon gift card worth up to $50 included until the end of July. Get 70% off with this NordVPN deal Using a VPN is incredibly simple. 1. Install the VPN of your choice. As we've said, NordVPN is our favorite. 2. Choose the location you wish to connect to in the VPN app. For instance, if you're away from the U.K., and want to view your usual U.K. service, you'd select U.K. from the list. 3. Sit back and watch the show. Head to BBC iPlayer to watch "Fake or Fortune?" season 13 episodes online and on-demand. "Fake or Fortune?" has previously been shown on Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, and Magellan TV and you can watch season 8 right now. But, we have had no word on season 13. Prices start from $7.99/month, but the annual subscription gets you 12 months for the price of 10. However, if you are a Brit abroad for work or on vacation you can catch the show for free by using a VPN such as NordVPN, choosing U.K. from the list and selecting BBC iPlayer. There is no release date for "Fake or Fortune" season 13 in Canada but it will almost certainly be be available to stream in the near future on TVO and possibly Magellan TV, where previous seasons of "Fake or Fortune" are available to stream. But don't panic. If you are a Brit in the Great White North for work or on vacation you can catch the show by using a VPN such as NordVPN. It is a similar story in Oz. "Fake or Fortune?" has been shown on both ABC iView and Freeview in Australia but we haven't received a confirmed season 13 release date. Brit working or on vacation Down Under? You can catch the show on BBC iPlayer by using a VPN such as NordVPN. "Fake or Fortune" season 13 should be available to stream on SkyGo in New Zealand after the BBC broadcast in the UK. Date TBA. Away from home? Can't wait? If you are a Brit away from home for work or on vacation you can catch the show on BBC iPlayer by using a VPN such as NordVPN. Season 13 Episode 01: "The Mystery of Churchill's Garden" - A mysterious inscription, a famous name and a colossal price tag. The team embark on a high-stakes quest to authenticate a 'lost' Churchill. Is it genuine or a clever fake? S13 E02: "A Tale of Two Renoirs" - The team investigate an early portrait and a charming little landscape, both believed to be by one of the biggest names in art. Could two new Renoir works have surfaced in the UK? S13 E03: TBC S13 E04: TBC Fiona Bruce is an award-winning newscaster and a regular presenter of both the "BBC News at Six" and "BBC News at Ten". She joined the "Antiques Roadshow" as lead presenter in 2008 having begun her career as a researcher on "Panorama". She was later a reporter for "Newsnight". She spent eight years as co-presenter on "Crimewatch" from 2000 and a year later became the first woman presenter to be part of the BBC's election team. Her other presenting credits include: "Priceless Antiques Roadshow", "The Antiques Show", "Call My Bluff" and quiz show "What are You Like?". Most recently, Fiona Bruce presented the acclaimed "Victoria: A Real Love Story". We test and review VPN services in the context of legal recreational uses. For example: 1. Accessing a service from another country (subject to the terms and conditions of that service). 2. Protecting your online security and strengthening your online privacy when abroad. We do not support or condone the illegal or malicious use of VPN services. Consuming pirated content that is paid-for is neither endorsed nor approved by Future Publishing.

5 best travel deals of the week: fares from $826 Singapore-Melbourne return
5 best travel deals of the week: fares from $826 Singapore-Melbourne return

The Advertiser

time17-06-2025

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  • The Advertiser

5 best travel deals of the week: fares from $826 Singapore-Melbourne return

NOW One of this year's biggest blockbuster art exhibitions, French Impressionism, has just kicked off at the National Gallery of Victoria, with more than 100 artworks by masters such as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro and Edouard Manet. WHEN: Until October 5; COMING UP From family-friendly food markets during the day to entertaining fire shows and pyrotechnics at night, Winter in the City will bring 15 days of fun and festivities to Canberra. A festival highlight is truffle hunts - followed by gourmet meals - at two of Australia's finest truffieres: Beltana Farm and The Truffle Farm. WHEN: July 5-19; LATER Planning a trip to the Queensland capital? Line up your dates with Brisbane Festival, when the city comes alive with cultural events, live performances and riverside fireworks. WHEN: September 5-27;

In Netherlands, a 200-year-old condom is on display at ‘Safe Sex?' exhibit
In Netherlands, a 200-year-old condom is on display at ‘Safe Sex?' exhibit

Hindustan Times

time06-06-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Hindustan Times

In Netherlands, a 200-year-old condom is on display at ‘Safe Sex?' exhibit

The Netherlands' national museum has a new or rather a bizarre object on display, a nearly 200-year-old condom emblazoned with erotic art, that merges art with Amsterdam's infamous Red Light District. It is part of an exhibition called "Safe Sex?" about 19th-century sex work that opened on Tuesday. The 200-year-old condom, possibly a souvenir from a brothel, is decorated with an erotic image of a nun and three clergymen. According to a CNN report, the condom measures under eight inches, and is in 'mint condition,' said Joyce Zelen, curator of prints at the museum in Netherlands. UV testing revealed it hasn't been used, she added. 'Condoms would have been sold under the counter at the time. This fact, as well as the print and the extended length of the condom, which is 20 centimeters (7.9 inches) long, suggest that this was 'a luxury brothel souvenir,' she said. The Rijksmuseum said in a statement that the playful prophylactic is believed to be made around 1830 from a sheep's appendix and 'depicts both the playful and the serious side of sexual health.' 'This is my choice,' makes the print a parody of both celibacy and the Judgement of Paris from Greek mythology,' AP news agency quoted museum's statement. The inscription, 'Voilà mon choix', meaning 'This is my choice' is written along the sheath in French. According to the museum, this is a reference to the Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting "The Judgment of Paris," which depicts the Trojan prince Paris judging a beauty contest between three goddesses. While this kind of condom was not likely to have been used, those designed to protect the wearer would have been made with similar materials, Zelen told CNN, adding that they would have provided minimal protection from unwanted pregnancies and sexual transmitted infections such as syphilis, which was a significant public health problem in 19th century Europe. The Rijksmuseum reportedly acquired the condom at auction six months ago and it is the first example of a print on a condom to form part of the museum's collection. The condom is on display until the end of November.

200-year-old condom with erotic art goes on display in Amsterdam
200-year-old condom with erotic art goes on display in Amsterdam

Hindustan Times

time06-06-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Hindustan Times

200-year-old condom with erotic art goes on display in Amsterdam

The Netherlands' national museum has a new object on display that merges art with Amsterdam's infamous Red Light District — a nearly 200-year-old condom, emblazoned with erotic art. The Rijksmuseum said in a statement that the playful prophylactic, believed to be made around 1830 from a sheep's appendix, 'depicts both the playful and the serious side of sexual health'. This artefact is part of an exhibition titled Safe Sex? that showcases 19th century sex work. The condom, possibly a souvenir from a brothel, is decorated with an erotic image of a nun and three clergymen. The phrase 'This is my choice' is written along the sheath in French. According to the museum, it is a reference to the Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting The Judgment of Paris, which depicts the Trojan prince Paris judging a beauty contest between three goddesses. The condom is on display until the end of November.

200-year-old condom with erotic art goes on display at Dutch museum
200-year-old condom with erotic art goes on display at Dutch museum

Euronews

time04-06-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Euronews

200-year-old condom with erotic art goes on display at Dutch museum

The Netherlands' national museum has a new object on display: a 200-year-old condom, emblazoned with erotic art depicting a partially undressed nun pointing at the erect genitals of three clergymen. The 19th-century 'luxury souvenir', bought for €1,000 at an auction in Haarlem last November, is the first contraceptive sheath to be added to the Rijksmuseum's art collection. It goes on display this week as part of an exhibition called 'Safe Sex?' about 19th century sex work. Presumed to be made out of a sheep's appendix circa 1830 (vulcanised rubber was invented nine years later to make them safer and more widely available), the ancient prophylactic reportedly comes from an upmarket brothel in France - most likely in Paris. As well as the phallus-indicating sister of Christ, the condom features the phrase 'Voila, mon choix' ('There, that's my choice'). So, a nun judging a cock-off? Almost... The Rijksmuseum said in a statement that the playful item 'depicts both the playful and the serious side of sexual health' and that the French etching is a reference to the Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting 'The Judgment of Paris,' which depicts the Trojan prince Paris judging a beauty contest between three goddesses. Visitors of the Rijksmuseum have until end of the November to take the plunge and see the condom of yore in the 'Safe Sex?' exhibition. "I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen." Thus begins William Blake's 230 year-old poem 'The Garden of Love'. And what a bloom has it inspired in the shape of musical sensation Falling in Love, at the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin. "I just remember how it was the first time I read the first two lines," writer and director Oliver Hoppmann explains. "I went to the Garden of Love and saw what I never had seen. And that was just, wow, that struck me, because there's pretty much everything in there for a show. There's a reference to nature, to love, I mean, what else do you need?" Well, it turns out what else you need are a supporting team of 60 performers, 50 musicians and countless backstage and office staff. Oh, and an audience, which now collectively amounts to half a million spectators. Some of whom, much to my initial dismay, clapped along rather a lot. The show centres on a young, creative but rather lost character called 'You', a deaf poet whose inability to conform leaves them dejected until an immersion into the lost Garden of Love opens a realm of possibilities. A magical place where they may finally find words, and a voice that is heard. That it is a spectacle is doubtless. From the get-go, Falling in Love showers you with light, with colour and with a wow factor that doesn't ever really go away. Your eyes dart left, right, up, through, beyond, and at every shift there is a new colour, a new depth, another stonking guitar-riff. And while you're blown away by the sheer magnitude of this visual carnival, the remaining part of your senses will not be surprised to discover that the entire thing has been curated by the French fashion stylist Jean Paul Gaultier. "Jean Paul and I, we've known each other for quite some has become a friend of our house because he loves the shows at Frederickstraße Palast," continues Hoppmann. "He travels here privately to see shows. So we have been in regular contact. And when we came to that idea of that new show, that poem, that garden of love, we said, okay, who could be that person who brings that spark in a couture way to that?" There is of course only one answer. Enter Jean Paul Gaultier. "I have had the pleasure and the privilege to design again many costumes for Falling in Love, but I also worked with other designers: Matières Fécales and Sasha Frolova. The challenge was to choose great collaborators who would share my and Oliver's vision for the show. And after our initial meetings and exchange of ideas and first sketches I was happy to give them almost a carte blanche for their sections of the show," Gaultier explains to Euronews Culture. The layered production design and the scale of that design gives you a tangible 360 degree sensation. The costumes are truly spectacular with echoes of Gaultier's iconic outfits in The Fifth Element but also The Hunger Games which, although designed by Judianna Makovsky, betrayed a Gaultier influence in places. "I have some codes that are part of my style and my fashion vocabulary," he says. "The corset and the cone bra is one of them. I always want to create something new but at the same time I use my fashion codes as my vocabulary." Theatrically it shares some elements with the We Will Rock You musical that ran for 12 years in London, and not just the wall of guitars. The flagrant pantomime nature that pervades much of the interaction is a common by-product of writing it large. And this is as large as indoor theatre gets. From the kick-off number Diamond City, it's clear the show is going to be a kaleidoscope. And you need such a thing when the whole audience is not bilingual and therefore the jokes sometimes fall flat. The audiences have comprised many nationalities but the top five are France, Switzerland, the US, Austria, and Denmark. There is cheeky titillation (the lower cheeks to be precise) and super-hench pecs on show in a celebration of athletic prowess and beauty. Choreography and technical elements come together to form something genuinely beautiful; a dancer abseiling down a waterfall enchants the mind while a wonderfully-engineered fountain dance is candy-popping fun. And all the camp, kitsch, multicoloured vibrancy sometimes finds its way into the audience. There's no fourth wall here. We're allowed into the pop video, the dream, the trip. The guitar-toting character of Leon is part game show host, part Worf from Star Trek. I wonder if all this colour has left characterisation as a second thought. The colours don't really inhabit the character types they represent in any physical or vocal way which leaves us having to try to recall them. Gaultier himself admits his greatest challenge on this production "was the soloists and how best to express their nature and their feelings through the costumes." There is something tribal about the colours here. We have three camps: red, green and blue, all in their various ways offering modes of expression to the poet to colour their world. The theme of deafness and isolation is encapsulated by the character of 'You', which brings a profound level of meaning to the carnival. "I try to focus on vision, on touch, on vibrations," says Justyna Woloch, who plays the deaf character of 'You'. "There is, built into the stage, a vibration plate in the middle of the hexagon that was purposefully made for people with hearing problems to be able to feel when to really be on the music and not be off the beat." Woloch is not deaf but took over from deaf performer Hearns Sebuado when she took the role of 'You'. "The plate helps me as well because, of course, I hear music and I immediately start moving but I really consciously have to try to stop hearing it, which is really hard. And so many times during the show I'm touching the vibration plate and trying to really block out all the sound." To illustrate the genesis of this element of the show, Hoppmann tells me about a deaf poetry slam that he attended 10 years ago where he suddenly understood the frustration of those with hearing impairment. "I'm a hearing director in a room of non-hearing people with performers on stage who are only using sign language, German sign language, to recite their poems. And I didn't have a clue what they were saying. There were, like, verbalisations and an audio description." "There was a verbal translation for people who were hearing and couldn't understand sign language," he recounts. "But, you know, a director always wants to be ahead of time, right? You want to know what comes next, what happens next. And I couldn't because I had always to wait until I got the translation. I really felt it. I'm the last person in the room that understood." It is without a doubt impressive that the themes of deafness and isolation are part of something so vast, loud (in both colour and sound) and inclusive, and the Palast itself plays a fundamental part in the proceedings. With an unrivalled stage area of 2,854 square metres, and near-perfect sight lines for the whole audience, as well as a trailblazing air-conditioning system via the actual seats, unusually visual treats can be clearly observed in comfort. Also playing a role is the wider geographical context. The inimitable city of Berlin. "I love Berlin," admits Gaultier. "I have been coming regularly for years. There was still the wall dividing the city the first time I visited. And this show is possible only in Berlin with its unique history and unique feeling." Disco ball shoulder pads, bike helmets, glitter g-strings with regency wigs run amok on the enormous stage. Every number is a brilliant pop video leaving little room for sentiment but plenty of fuel for entertainment. Gaultier is resolute on what's important. "It is a show, a Grand Show and I think it is most important that the audience enjoys themselves, that they enjoy the story, the music, the dancing, the special effects, the costumes. Whether that enjoyment is through form or the substance is not crucial for me," he says. Another thing that will not have escaped the audiences are the extraordinary number of crystals in the design. This is thanks to a partnership deal with Swarovski who provided a staggering 100 million crystals in all cuts and colours, which I am assured is a new world record in live entertainment. I'm not convinced there was an old world record to beat but it certainly fits the 'sky's the limit' remit. Profundity may be hard to detect among a sea of crystals but there are important themes at work amongst the glitz. There's an anthropological callback to Levi Strauss in the play's symbolic handing-over of the written word from the character of 'Me' and then to the character of 'You'. Walls created by isolation are broken, which takes on its own emotional evocation after the confinement of the global pandemic. The astonishing acrobatic performers (audiences genuinely screaming with disbelief at the physical feats) fall out of windows onto trampettes and ping back up again only to throw themselves out again is a nice metaphor for human romantic behaviour. The silly shapes we bend ourselves into for love and visibility. And on the philosophical note, when quizzed about upcoming fashion trends, Gaultier responds with something that probably should be on a poster. "I don't look at fashion as much as I used to. And trends are just trends but the style is something that stays. If you are too fashionable then very quickly you become unfashionable. As the French say La Mode se démode." Falling in Love is booking until 5 July 2025.

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