On TV tonight, Sue Perkins follows the Orient Express from Paris to Istanbul

Also, Channel 4 encourages debate over the US election and it's Dessert Week on Bake Off

Also, Channel 4 encourages debate over the US election and it's Dessert Week on Bake Offnow follows the route of the Orient Express. After narrowly missing the train in Paris, she samples gourmet insects crafted by a world-class chef, gets a little tipsy on absinthe, finds her place as a catwalk model in Paris Fashion Week and spends a night at the Crazy Horse Cabaret. Nice work if you can get it, and all amiably done, but don’t expect too many stunning insights into Paris itself.

She explores how rumours of sexual indiscretions were used to target a formidable medieval queen and still follow her centuries on. She also asks if the 13-year-old King James VI of Scotland was really groomed by his 37-year-old uncle, Esme Stewart.Hollywoodgate was the nickname for the US base in Kabul where, after the hasty 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban unearthed an estimated $7bn worth of discarded US weaponry.

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