While the king of pop – the subject of a new biopic – was thrilling audiences in Cork in 1988, concerned reporters were offering to help James Safechuck escape

Television: New presenters chef Anna Haugh and food critic Grace Dent go together like Tayto and red lemonade

Television: Charlotte Regan has gone out on a limb with this tale of star-crossed lovers in small-town Scotland

Game of Thrones vibe adds sense of the epic to Amos’s stark warning about tyrants in our midst

Konnakol could have been so much more than a muffled collection of anti-bangers. In the year of 1D comebacks, Zayn is lost among the trailing pack

Television: As he approaches his 100th birthday, veteran wildlife presenter catches up with descendants of primates he met on Life on Earth

Ultimate verdict, in the end, rests with us, the listeners

Television: Kathryn Thomas’s thought-provoking documentary explores man and medicine’s quest to delay the ageing process

Euphoria’s jaded nihilism always had a best-before date, this tawdry, tedious and underwhelming new series suggests it has finally passed

The singer was still at school when the BBC discovered her. By 2024 she was opening for Taylor Swift – yet she still doesn’t have the music industry all figured out, she says

Glittering, supersized dance juggernaut fuses the Chemical Brother’s propulsive electronica and the Norwegian’s icy, eerie singing and production

Róisín Ní Thomáin explores whether she may be neurodivergent and hears from parents seeking support for autistic children

Television: Starring Noah Wyle, The Pitt bears a jarring resemblance to the joys of the Irish medical system

Television: Sightseeing takes a back seat as Keating talks about his brother Ciarán, who died in 2023

At the 3Olympia, the Scottish band insult Trump, quote Churchill and serve up winning qualities of nostalgia in charming anniversary concert