Should we celebrate foolishness? Today everyone needs to be on the alert for hoaxes, in a tradition that goes back hundreds of years. We look at some classic modern examples.
Prank alert! It’s April Fools’ Day
Light relief: The Fool in Shakespeare's King Lear, portrayed above by Leo Wringer, provides humour and distraction in tense moments — but he can also speak truth to power. Glossary
BBC - The British Broadcasting Corporation is the UK's national broadcaster.
Tower of London - A fortress in London, once used as a prison and now part of a museum homing the UK's crown jewels.
Antarctica - The most southerly continent, surrounding the South Pole. Its area is estimated at 5.5 million square miles, most of it covered in ice.
Large Hadron Collider - The world's most powerful machine for smashing high-energy particles together.