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A heartwarming walk with Paul Merson every bit he trades in booze for birdsong

Merson discusses his demons while discovering the countryside for the first time - only this is more therapy session than BBC nature evidence

Sam Ryder may finally provide U.k. a winning shot at Eurovision

The charismatic TikTok metallic head is the Uk'due south Eurovision entry for 2022, and may represent our all-time hazard in decades
The Staircase, review: a corkscrewing whodunit to match the hit documentary

This HBO dramatisation of the popular Netflix documentary keeps you hooked with its central mystery: did Michael Peterson kill his wife?
The White Carte, Northern Stage, review: as well many statistics, non enough story

Claudia Rankine'due south play nearly race and privilege deals with important themes, but makes for unconvincing fine art

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Sam Ryder may finally provide Britain a winning shot at Eurovision

The charismatic TikTok metal head is the Uk's Eurovision entry for 2022, and may represent our all-time chance in decades
Why I volition never scout a Curiosity motion picture

The superhero leviathan is infantalising viewers and impoverishing our civilization
No-one cares if Boris doesn't picket Lorraine Kelly – the Blair era is over

The Left's joy over the PM'south 'gaffe' is misguided – working-course voters intendance nigh action, not syrupy 'we're merely like you' TV references
Lucy Worsley sensationally unbuttons the murderous scandals of Victorian women

A new Radio iv series – replete with sexual practice and scandal – explores the motives of Victorian killers with a contemporary feminist twist

The White Card, Northern Stage, review: as well many statistics, not plenty story

Claudia Rankine's play most race and privilege deals with important themes, but makes for unconvincing art
Arica, review: a grimly enthralling tale of corporate malversation

Filmmakers tell the story of the Swedish mining company Boliden and 20,000 tons of toxic waste dumped outside the Chilean town of Arica
House of Ife: familiar clashes of civilization and generation, with one astonishing star turn

Beru Tessema's naturalistic new drama, which revolves around a bereaved British Ethiopian family, reveals Michael Workeye as a rising star
Center, National Theatre, review: essential viewing for anyone with a rocky matrimony

Superb performances from Claire Rushbrook and Daniel Ryan bolster David Eldridge's subtle, poignant drama
Arcade Fire, WE: big ideas, grand emotions, and right up there with their best

The Canadian-American ensemble's sixth album is as musically and thematically ambitious as you lot'd expect, and it delivers in spades
Barry & Joan: treading the boards with two veterans of British vaudeville's golden historic period

You lot'll emerge from this film happy that these two troupers are nevertheless plying their trade, and much better versed on the Commedia dell'Arte

Stone's untold stories, from band-splitting feuds to the greatest performances of all time

What's on Tv tonight: The Terror: Infamy, Tehran and more than

Your complete guide to the week'south television, films and sport, across terrestrial and digital platforms

A regular series telling the stories behind moving picture and Tv set's greatest hits – and near fascinating flops

Sophie Ward interview: as a model, I fabricated sure my hotel door was locked

The actress and 'face of the 80s' talks about writing novels and her regret about her famous father
You can't trust a word in this unbelievable biography

This maddening novel is a imitation-biography full of puzzles and contradictions – just all its meta trappings can't make up for poor writing
Did Bobby Kennedy murder Marilyn Monroe?

A new Netflix documentary concludes that Marilyn was not 'deliberately killed'. Just i former LAPD investigator disagrees
The Contrary of a Person by Lieke Marsman review: a fizzing tale of heartbreak and climate disaster

The Dutch poet laureate moves betwixt prose, verse and script-like dialogue in this inventive, and excellent translated, novel

Donald Baechler, divisive New York painter who paid prisoners and drunks to draw for him – obituary

His cartoonish images, often culled from art past social outcasts, were touted in the 1980s as a Pop Art renaissance simply reviled past others
Radical Landscapes: a bracingly different kind of ramble through the British countryside

Tate Liverpool's new testify is only partly green and frequently far from pleasant – and that'due south precisely what'due south and so enjoyable near it
How Venice transformed Monet's art

Equally one of his Venetian views goes on sale, our writer charts the artist's obsession with the city's light and h2o
The problem-making life of 'big fame hunter' Ron Galella

Brando knocked out his teeth; Richard Burton had him beaten upwardly; Jackie Onassis sued him. Merely the pioneering paparazzo had no regrets