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- Peter Parker, the beloved superhero Spider-Man, faces four destructive elemental monsters while on holiday in Europe. Soon, he receives help from Mysterio, a fellow hero with mysterious origins.
- Under fire for giving a student her copy of a romance novel, Prudence resigns from her teaching position and sails for Italy.
- The "casanova" gondolier Bepi struggles to accept his future monogamous life, being Venice a hub of attracting tourists.
- A woman of humble origins who marries a nobleman in the mid-19th century. Unfortunately, the unstoppable force of their love hits an immovable object: his grandmother.
- John Eliot Gardiner explains the background to the composition of the 'Vespers of the Blessed Virgin' by Claudio Monteverdi before conducting a performance by the Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists.
- 201158m8.4 (26)TV EpisodeItaly north of Rome, mainly city states and the larger ones' hinterland, like Venice's, has many gardens belonging to country homes of rich patrician or merchant families. An impressive front and vista could impress, more intimate elements like mazes allowed for party and more private fun.
- Every spring, various migratory bird species return to their breeding grounds all over Europe, as far as the wild geese in Scandinavia and northern Siberia or much closer to the Mediterranean. Even at the shortest passages, the Gibraltar Strait and the Marmara Sea, gliding many miles without soil is perilous, but so are predators all along each route, like the peregrine falcon. Some (stork) nests are family heritages for many generations. Human landscape changes, such as urbanization, significantly change conditions. Navigation is by astronomy, earth magnetism and landmarks.
- The making of the previous five episodes. To film 100 bird species worldwide, many in flight, from their own, airy perspective, lots of equipment was used, including light aircraft and miniature cameras, even life-like bird dummies. The key factor however were birds hatched and trained with endless patience. Even then, filming them proved nerve-wracking and sometimes perilous.