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From the Editors
HAVE YOU TAKEN THE SCREEN TEST? • Don’t miss your chance to be part of the most wide-ranging and important viewer survey taken in the UK – and to shape the TV of the future
THIS WEEK • THE TEN BEST SHOWS TO WATCH, LISTEN TO & STREAM
OUR PLANET’S HEAVY SLEEPERS
GRAPEVINE • The TV stories that are getting us talking…
TEN QUESTIONS WITH KATHERINE PARKINSON • The Bafta-winning actor on her Taskmaster disaster, filming bad sex — and her love of Jilly Cooper
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AFRICA ISN’T WHAT YOU THINK • Ignore the bad news, says Afua Hirsch, creativity is saving the continent
THE RADIO TIMES AT 100 • Continuing our countdown to the centenary of Radio Times in September, with a weekly look back at some of the magazine’s landmark issues…
THE TV THAT WE DESERVE • I’m watching Love Island with my kids and I’m appalled. So why am I watching it again and again?
‘I can’t watch, I know how brutal it is’ • Sharon Horgan on winning Baftas, putting women centre stage – and why she can’t bear to tune in to her heartbreaking new drama
‘No one needs to see me STRIP OFF these days’ • Robert Carlyle revealed all for The Full Monty – 26 years later, he’s keeping his trousers on for the sequel
‘PEOPLE STILL ASSOCIATE ME WITH MALE NUDITY’ • Mark Addy and co on the new Full Monty
‘I felt it would really help people’ • Since she was a girl, Sarah Beeny has feared the cancer that killed her mother. Now she’s gone public with her own diagnosis
BALDRICK’S CUNNING PILOT • Comedy classic Blackadder had a couple of false starts, says Sir Tony Robinson – and he nearly never played Baldrick at all
HIGH AND MIGHTY • Erling Haaland has the power, skill and magic to propel Manchester City to true greatness, says Simon Barnes
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THE WAY WE WERE • In 1994 Viv Groskop set off on a road trip to Volodymyr Zelenksy’s home town. Now it has inspired her new play set in war-torn Ukraine
WHO’S IN CONTROL? • A bonus edition reminds...