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From the Editor
THIS WEEK • THE 10 BEST SHOWS TO WATCH, LISTEN TO & STREAM
ALAN CARR • The king of the Celebrity Traitors castle on stabbing his friends in the back, writing his own murder mystery — and having tea with Mariah Carey
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THE END OF BRITISH TV? • With editorial failures and resignations at the top of the BBC, as well as the threat of an American takeover at ITV, broadcasting as we know it is facing the greatest challenge it has ever seen
HAVE YOUR SAY • From the editor, Radio Times
KEEP SAFE WHEN YOU GO ONLINE • Social media platforms have a duty to protect their users from scammers, says Matt Allwright
IT WAS 30 YEARS AGO TODAY… • Three decades after the Fab Four’s history was chronicled in Anthology, there’s now an extra chapter. Theirs is a long and winding road – but an endlessly compelling one
FROM ME TO YOU…
‘THEY WERE THE BLUEPRINT OF WHAT A BAND IS’
CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE • Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was held prisoner in Iran for six years, while her husband fought for her freedom. A new BBC drama tries to do their story justice
TREASURE TIME • A new series of Civilisations opens the doors of the British Museum to explore epochal society change, seen through its finest objects
‘WE WERE FAILURES BEFORE THIS’ • The show’s first script was rejected 20 times. Now, five seasons on, The Duffer Brothers are moving on to even stranger things
THE STORY SO FAR…
Watered-down truth? • There are still questions following 1988’s mass poisoning in Camelford
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS • New tech can undoubtedly transform people’s lives, so is it AI or its creators that we should fear?
A TALE OF TWO STRIKERS • Harry Kane comes home with nothing to prove — but Marcus Rashford has scores to settle, says Simon Barnes
Sport editor Michael Potts on the best of the week’s action on TV and radio
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BERTRAND RUSSELL? ‘HOLY SH*T!’ • Historian Rutger Bregman follows in the footsteps of his intellectual hero to deliver this year’s Reith Lectures
BEYOND THE TRY LINE • Two former England players may have hung up their...