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Todays TV: Rounding off the week with regular Friday night faces Jools Holland and Graham Norton Grayson and Philippa Grayson’s Art Club (C4, 8pm) IT’S food week, and Grayson and Philippa Perry are joined by presenter Sue Perkins, who crafts an unusual work of art on the subject. Grayson talks to Rose Wylie, who became an art world star in her 70s. There’s a peak inside the studio of Lucy Sparrow, who uses felt to create colourful replicas of everyday food items. Comedian Mawaan Rizwan ...

ON DEMAND: Hi-De-Hi! (BritBox, from Thursday) By 1980, Jimmy Perry and David Croft were among Britains top comedy writers. Dads Army, which ended in 1977 after nine years on our screens, had made their names, while It Aint Half Hot Mum, which ran for seven, was drawing to a close. Both series had been inspired by their own experiences, in particular those of Perry, and their next project would be too. Perry was a redcoat at Butlins after leaving the army, and channelled his memories into th...

ON DEMAND: Hi-De-Hi! (BritBox, from Thursday) By 1980, Jimmy Perry and David Croft were among Britains top comedy writers. Dads Army, which ended in 1977 after nine years on our screens, had made their names, while It Aint Half Hot Mum, which ran for seven, was drawing to a close. Both series had been inspired by their own experiences, in particular those of Perry, and their next project would be too. Perry was a redcoat at Butlins after leaving the army, and channelled his memories into th...

Certainly, not every German was in party mood. In a West German prison, our heroine, Stasi agent Lenora Rauch (the captivating Maria Schrader) lights another cigarette as the news came through about the fall of the wall. “People are screaming for freedom and capitalism is what they’ll get,” she snarls superbly to anyone listening. ”Capitalism is nothing but capitalism. It serves no other purpose. Not freedom, nothing. Capitalism sucks everyone in, and devours them.” Thi...