One of the trickiest pieces of food you can become is a candy cane. Again, that might sound odd, but why not be a “sweet treat” even when it’s not Christmas season? That’s what we thought.

“The violin is no longer played,” he wrote. “It is pulled about, torn, beaten black and blue.” Kopatchinskaja doesn’t always beat music black and blue. She can reduce her sound to a ...

Cane toads became pests after being introduced into Australia to control destructive beetles in Queensland’s sugarcane crops. Cane toads are capable of poisoning predators that try to eat them and ...

Listen to programmes about the lives and works of the greatest classical composers.