TV tonight: the excellent Nicola Walker stars in a new series of Annika
Emotions come to the fore in the Scottish cop drama. Plus, a sobering documentary about a 1970s yachting tragedy. Here’s what to watch this evening
Documentary producer Jess Search dies at 54
Tributes paid to influential co-founder of Doc Society, who ‘lived a life of purpose on her own terms’
On my radar: Charlie Brooker’s cultural highlights
The award-winning creator of Black Mirror on the most over-the-top film he’s ever seen, a podcast that doesn’t send him to sleep and the bit of the Observer he always reads
The Observer view on Dear England: Cry God for Harry, England and our Gareth
Theatre audiences are gripped by James Graham’s story of Gareth Southgate’s team, and the first Ashes Test was almost unwatchably tense
Disney+ documentary reignites anger over Marvel Comics’ cult of Stan Lee
Families of artists Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby, and broadcaster Jonathan Ross, say pair were at forefront of creating Marvel characters
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The author and academic on Richard Wright’s great unpublished novel, the joy of Brighton pier and dining alongside Gilbert and George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