Another skin-crawling episode of US thriller The Hunting Party. Plus: what will Celia Imrie do next in The Celebrity Traitors? Here’s what to watch this evening

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The US crime thriller in which former FBI profiler Rebecca Henderson (Melissa Roxburgh) returns to clean up after a secret underground prison explodes. A skin-crawling opening to episode two proves just how terrified they should be about the escaped serial killers – including Clayton Jessup, who targets happy families and is looking to kill again. Hollie Richardson

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At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret

War photographers are not meant to reach 90. “Fate has had my life in its hands,” says Don McCullin. Over his seven-decade career covering wars, famines and disasters McCullin has been captured, and escaped snipers, mortar fire and more. How does it feel to be a survivor? “Uncomfortable,” he says. No wonder he finds solace in the beautiful still lifes he creates in his shed, or in the images he composes in the countryside around his Somerset home.

McCullin is proud of escaping the extreme poverty he was born into, and the interesting and adventurous life he has lived, but he says the accolades – including a knighthood in 2017 – make him uneasy. “I feel as if I’ve been over-rewarded, and I definitely feel uncomfortable about that, because it’s been at the expense of other people’s lives.” But he has been the witness to atrocity, I point out, and that’s important. “Yes,” he says, uncertainly, “but, at the end of the day, it’s done absolutely no good at all. Look at Ukraine. Look at Gaza. I haven’t changed a solitary thing. I mean it. I feel as if I’ve been riding on other people’s pain over the last 60 years, and their pain hasn’t helped prevent this kind of tragedy. We’ve learned nothing.” It makes him despair.

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Jean-Xavier de Lestrade defends decision to film mini-series inside Paris theatre where 130 people died in 2016

The Oscar-winning director of a TV mini-series about survivors of the 2015 terrorist attack at the Bataclan in Paris has rejected accusations his decision to film inside the theatre was “indecent”.

Jean-Xavier de Lestrade said the hostages on whose story the eight-part docudrama was based wanted their terrifying ordeal recreated inside the building and to film it elsewhere would have been “trickery”.

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Soyinka, 91, who recently compared US president to Idi Amin, says ‘I have no visa – I am banned’

The Trump administration has revoked the visa for Wole Soyinka, the acclaimed Nigerian Nobel prize-winning writer who has been critical of Trump since his first presidency, Soyinka revealed on Tuesday.

“I want to assure the consulate … that I’m very content with the revocation of my visa,” Soyinka, who won the 1986 Nobel prize for literature, told a news conference.

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Richard Taylor calls for clearer rules around dramatic misrepresentation after suing over his portrayal in Steve Coogan’s The Last King

A university executive who won damages over his portrayal in Steve Coogan’s film The Lost King has urged Ofcom to strengthen regulation of fact-based drama, after what he described as a three-year “anxious, stressful and hurtful” ordeal.

Richard Taylor, formerly deputy registrar at the University of Leicester, sued Coogan as well as the film’s production company, Baby Cow, and the distributor Pathé over his portrayal in the 2022 film about the discovery of Richard III’s remains in a Leicester car park.

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The lure of self-sufficiency is explored in this documentary, which follows the ebbs and flows of mostly solo characters who shun the ratrace

Filmed by its directors Gerard Bryan and David Rafique over 10 years, this amiable documentary profiling north Devon residents who live off-grid perhaps needed that much time to ripen in order to create a sense of narrative progress. Otherwise, it might have played like a series of cinematic snapshots of randomly selected folks who have little in common apart from a certain bolshie-minded self-sufficiency and love of rural life. That and a willingness to open up for the camera a tiny bit and let the directors snoop around their (mostly) messy but cosy homes.

No one here is what you might call a hermit, but being at ease with living alone seems to be a common trait among most of them. A few find themselves in relationships at one point or another, but their enthusiasm for other people varies greatly. When first met, eco-warrior Chris appears to think of himself as a lone wolf who’s only temporarily shacked up with younger woman Emma. By the end of the movie, they’ve got two lovely kids, despite Chris’s somewhat troubling assertions that he likes his old single life and that he seems distinctly unsure about this parenting malarkey. Similarly, adorably cantankerous Amy pairs up for a little while with sweet-natured villager Sue, but that doesn’t seem to last long. At the end, Amy muses on whether she lives off-grid because she’s difficult, or the other way around. Octogenarian Pamela on the other hand seems serenely content with her life of solitude, writing poetry and pottering about her home.

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A nuclear clear up, a bloody massacre, an extremely fraught game of marbles … From The Bear to Blue Lights, here are television’s most heart-pounding outings

Television is supposed to be relaxing. Flop on the sofa, lose yourself in your favourite show and feel your shoulders unknot themselves. Yet sometimes the best episodes are the most stress-inducing. Nerves jangle. Anxiety levels spike. Before you know it, you’re perched on the edge of your seat, quietly whimpering and clutching a cushion for comfort.

We select the dozen most intense TV episodes of all time – two of which aired in the past fortnight. Well, it’s been a turbulent time. Press play and feel those knuckles whiten …

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Poet laureate pays tribute to ‘message in a bottle tied to a life buoy thrown from a ghost ship’ released when he was 12

It was derided by some critics as self-indulgent and “ gimmicky ” when it was released in 1975 but has since been marked a perfect 10 and inspired exhibitions and postage stamps .

Now to mark the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s album Wish You Were Here, the poet laureate, Simon Armitage, has written an epic poem about the record, the band and their “profound” impact on him titled Dear Pink Floyd.

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From an afterlife fantasy to a tale of loss in Mumbai, death is a recurring theme in this story collection – an echo of the novelist at his peak

Towards the end of Knife , his 2024 book about the assault at a public event in upstate New York that blinded him in his right eye, Salman Rushdie offers a thought experiment:

Imagine that you knew nothing about me, that you had arrived from another planet, perhaps, and had been given my books to read, and you had never heard my name or been told anything about my life or about the attack on The Satanic Verses in 1989. Then, if you read my books in chronological order, I don’t believe you would find yourself thinking, Something calamitous happened to this writer’s life in 1989 . The books are their own journey .

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