High Society

Two girls from very different social backgrounds discover, at the age of 25, that they had been switched at birth.

Two girls from very different social backgrounds discover, at the age of 25, that they had been switched at birth.

A deputy curator of a chaebol-funded art gallery and her husband, a politically ambitious economics professor, will do anything to join the über-elite.

A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman.

We are living through one of the greatest revolutions in history. One that has changed how we live in Britain forever, and yet many of us don't even notice it is happening. This revolution is the ongoing transformation of the rights and role of women. Historian and broadcaster Helen Castor examines the fundamental shifts that have taken place in Great Britain in this Timewatch Guide to Women, Sex and Society.

In city parks and apartments, on stairwells, in classrooms, and in magazine offices, the people featured in Rethinking Cuban Civil Society grapple with these questions. Can more competitive elections and greater democracy exist in a one-party State? How can LGBTQI activists successfully influence government policy? How can access to the benefits of economic reforms allowing private business be extended to marginalized populations? Can the government help encourage a healthy, independent media eco-system? And how much of the stifling of civil society can be blamed on the embargo and how much is simply home-grown?

Ian Mortimer transports viewers back to Elizabethan England and reveals, in vivid detail, a living, breathing Tudor world. Viewers learn how ordinary Tudor housewives turned plants into medicine, how the middle classes kept themselves clean using linen cloths, how the poor made pottage, how cooks of the rich devised recipes for new ingredients, and how Tudors learned to read and write.

The story of Shula Cohen, aka The Pearl, who spied for the Israelis in Lebanon for 14 years. When Shula Cohen was arrested for espionage in 1961, Beirut society was shocked. How could such an elegant, classy, high society woman turn out to be an Israeli spy? Shulami, "Shula", Cohen was born of Jewish parents in Argentina and grew up in Israel. At 16, she was married off to a wealthy Lebanese Jewish businessman, Josef Kishik, and moved to Beirut.