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• My Fair Lady, Coliseum, review: a watershed production, merely not a benchmark

  The get-go black extra to play Eliza Doolittle, Amara Okereke flowers opposite Vanessa Redgrave, but the staging is underpowered

  

• Spreadsheet, review: Katherine Parkinson stars in desperate Australian sexual practice comedy

  The British actress is one of the few redeeming features of this cringeworthy and explicit sex-com

• Derry Girls: The Agreement, review: a stunning, bawling ending to a modern sitcom swell

  Channel 4's coming-of-age, Troubles-set comedy delivered an affecting finale that was as heartwarming as it was hilarious

• Prince of Muck, review: one man, a Hebridean island and a film of elegiac brilliance

  Nothing much happens, but the story of Lawrence MacEwen eventually reveals itself to have Shakespearean depths

• The House of Shades, review: a disturbing drama every Labour MP should meet

  Beth Steel's new decades-spanning ballsy chronicles how the party poisoned its relationship with the working course

Comment and analysis

• The BBC needs to produce a perfect Platinum Jubilee

  The corporation cannot beget to bungle its coverage of this year's celebrations the fashion it did the Queen'due south Diamond Jubilee in 2012

  

• Gail Porter's 'mental health' interview cutting through all the mindfulness mumbo-jumbo

  Porter was open, insightful and costless of cliché as she spoke honestly to Elis James and John Robins on their How Do You Cope? podcast

  

• The existent hush-hush of Sam Ryder's Eurovision success? Busking

  Politics – and TikTok – both played a part, only the UK entrant would never have finished 2nd if he hadn't first hit Europe's pavements

  

• UK'southward Sam Ryder wuz robbed, but y'all would be hardhearted to object to Ukrainian win

  Given two decades of apple-polishing failure at Eurovision, it would have been considered a victory if the Britain had managed to avoid scoring nul points

  

Reviews

• The mother who fell out with her son for writing well-nigh his drug corruption has done it over again – in a novel

  Julie Myerson acquired controversy with her 2011 memoir The Lost Child. Her new novel, Nonfiction, returns to the same painful topic

  

• My Off-white Lady, Coliseum, review: a watershed production, but non a benchmark

  The get-go black actress to play Eliza Doolittle, Amara Okereke flowers contrary Vanessa Redgrave, merely the staging is underpowered

  

• The Business firm of Shades, review: a disturbing drama every Labour MP should run into

  Beth Steel's new decades-spanning epic chronicles how the party poisoned its relationship with the working class

  

• Tchaikovsky'southward Wife, review: a stately period piece – with an unexpected orgy-dance

  Kirill Serebrennikov's return to Cannes is a watchable if unsubtle melodrama about the composer's ill-fated wedlock to Antonina Miliukova

  

• James Blake at Ally Pally: a heavenly homecoming for the choirboy of electronica

  The famously shy synth-wizard'south Alexandra Palace gig saw him chatting away and unleashing big hits from the out – it went downwards a storm

  

• Andrew Morton's admirable new biography of the Queen feels like atonement for his Diana bombshells

  With Diana: Her True Story in 1992, Andrew Morton is the biographer who has caused the Queen the near hurting. thirty years on, he is making apology

  

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This night's TV

• What's on TV tonight: Art That Made United states of america, Secrets of the London Underground, and more than

  Your complete guide to the week's television, films and sport, beyond terrestrial and digital platforms

Screen Secrets

A regular series telling the stories behind picture show and TV's greatest hits – and nigh fascinating flops

• What's on Television receiver tonight: Art That Fabricated Us, Secrets of the London Secret, and more

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

  

• What's on Tv set tonight: Art That Fabricated Usa, Secrets of the London Underground, and more

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• The mother who fell out with her son for writing about his drug abuse has done it once more – in a novel

  Julie Myerson caused controversy with her 2011 memoir The Lost Child. Her new novel, Nonfiction, returns to the same painful topic

  

• Torment, treadmills and smuggled biscuits: what Oscar Wilde's fourth dimension in Reading Gaol was really like

  125 years agone today, the great writer was released from Reading Gaol. Today, the building is still haunted by its past

  

• Andrew Morton'southward admirable new biography of the Queen feels like amende for his Diana bombshells

  With Diana: Her Truthful Story in 1992, Andrew Morton is the biographer who has caused the Queen the most pain. 30 years on, he is making amends

  

• The real Tokyo Vice: how a Westerner took on the yakuza and lived

  Jake Adelstein spent 12 years uncovering the brutality and abuse of Japan's criminal offense lords – at great personal price. Is he condom at present?

  

• Feminine Power, review: a treasure trove you may demand divine powers to navigate

  The British Museum'due south look at how female spiritual beings have shaped our understanding of the world has terrific pieces but is overwhelming

  

• Is this violently explosive Tate Britain show by Cornelia Parker – or a poltergeist?

  This new retrospective for the 65-year-one-time British artist is a whirl of destructive energy that wears its political sentiments on its sleeve

  

• The kitschy, kinky classical painter who inspired Picasso

  These days, information technology can be hard to wait at the art of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres without smirking. So why did the modernists revere him?

  

• James Butler, Madame Tussauds waxworker who concluded up sculpting earth leaders in bronze – obituary

  Wearing a T-shirt saying 'We Never Say No', the stevedore's son took any task going until he established his mastery of figurative bronzes

  

In depth

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• What's on TV tonight: Fine art That Made Us, Secrets of the London Underground, and more

  Your complete guide to the calendar week'due south boob tube, films and sport, across terrestrial and digital platforms

  

• The mother who brutal out with her son for writing about his drug abuse has done it again – in a novel

  Julie Myerson caused controversy with her 2011 memoir The Lost Child. Her new novel, Nonfiction, returns to the aforementioned painful topic

  

• The BBC needs to produce a perfect Platinum Jubilee

  The corporation cannot beget to bungle its coverage of this twelvemonth'southward celebrations the style it did the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012

  

• My Off-white Lady, Coliseum, review: a watershed product, but non a benchmark

  The first blackness actress to play Eliza Doolittle, Amara Okereke flowers contrary Vanessa Redgrave, but the staging is underpowered

  

• Spreadsheet, review: Katherine Parkinson stars in desperate Australian sexual practice comedy

  The British actress is one of the few redeeming features of this cringeworthy and explicit sex-com

  

• Derry Girls: The Understanding, review: a stunning, tearful ending to a modern sitcom peachy

  Aqueduct 4's coming-of-historic period, Troubles-fix one-act delivered an affecting finale that was as heartwarming as it was hilarious

  

• Prince of Muck, review: one man, a Hebridean island and a film of elegiac luminescence

  Zippo much happens, but the story of Lawrence MacEwen somewhen reveals itself to have Shakespearean depths

  

• The Business firm of Shades, review: a disturbing drama every Labour MP should see

  Beth Steel's new decades-spanning epic chronicles how the party poisoned its relationship with the working grade

  

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