On my radar: Romy’s cultural highlights
The xx singer-songwriter and guitarist on the film that reminds her of holidays with her dad, reliving the Lionesses’ big win and her housework listening
Iain Johnstone obituary
Documentary maker, producer, writer and distinguished film critic for the Sunday Times and the BBC
On my radar: Ari Aster’s cultural highlights
The Hereditary and Midsommar film-maker on the genius of Daniel Clowes’s Eightball, a haunting Iranian drama and the revelatory writing of Édouard Levé
‘He epitomised the dazzling 60s and then was gone’: the inside story of Rolling Stone Brian Jones
Nick Broomfield’s new documentary recounts the life and death of one of rock’s most tragic characters
TV tonight: meet the people planning bank raids in Lebanon
Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to a couple taking desperate measures. Plus, the penultimate episode of Redemption. Here’s what to watch this evening
It’s a golden age for documentaries – but at what price for people whose lives are laid bare?
The Staircase gripped millions of viewers, but it wasn’t until I met Margie Ratliff that I began to question the human toll, says film-maker Camilla Hall
On my radar: Gary Younge’s cultural highlights
The author and academic on Richard Wright’s great unpublished novel, the joy of Brighton pier and dining alongside Gilbert and George
Christopher Nupen obituary
Maker of classical music documentaries who sought to capture the magic of live performance and the aspirations of the performers
Their trauma, our entertainment: what happens to documentary subjects when the cameras leave?
The Staircase’s Margie Ratliff, whose family nightmare became a TV sensation in the 2004 series, talks about a new film which looks at the ethics of ‘docu-tainment’
Derrick Knight obituary
Director known for a vivid documentary about the Watersons who brought fresh ideas to the British short-film industry in the 1960s
‘She’s like Princess Di’ – Selena Gomez and the extraordinary film about her mental health
Using six years’ worth of footage, In Bed With Madonna director Alek Keshishian has charted the former Disney child star’s troubled but successful pop reinvention, her remarkable empathy and love-hate relationship with fame
Political events now so quickly turn into TV drama that we risk confusing fact and fiction
This England covers Boris Johnson’s time in office. But that was only yesterday...
‘This is what it was like’: reliving the devastating US withdrawal from Afghanistan
In the harrowing documentary Escape from Kabul, first-hand accounts and archival footage bring us back to a terrifying time in 2021
TV tonight: a wild night in Grimsby’s new state-of-the-art prison
This fly-on-the-wall documentary series follows the custody officers employing a new approach to remanding people in custody. Plus, The Rap Game UK. Here’s what to watch this evening
TV tonight: second world war babies track down their Black heritage
An emotional journey for children born illegitimately to white mothers and African-American GIs. Plus: four single friends go on the same dinner date. Here’s what to watch this evening