hundreds of millions of dollars. the winner of the museum of the year will be announced tonight, a prize which celebrates the uk s best museums and galleries. this year s finalists include experience barnsley, firstsite in colchester and thackray museum of medicine in leeds. the art fund, which runs the prize, says the entries reflect the resilience and imagination of museums throughout the pandemic. the announcement will be made during a special programme on the bbc news channel tonight at 7.15pm. a bbc documentary has shed new light on what the duke of edinburgh was like as a father and grandfather. all of the duke s children and grandchildren took part in the programme, to be broadcast tomorrow on bbc one. they portray prince philip as firm but with a fondness for practicaljokes as our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. as well as assisting - the queen, he has a separate and independentjob of his own. he ran his public life from this office in buckingham palace. he lov
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