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The historian’s unflinching Holocaust documentary doesn't just chronicle horror. It also asks: how much was Europe to blame – and is any nation immune from antisemitism?

Reunion tells an intriguingly layered story of redemption. Plus: Sam Mendes’ documentary about the cameramen who filmed the horrors of Belsen. Here’s what to watch this evening

Patience is Channel 4’s crime drama set in beautiful York. Plus: more trouble with Claudia Winkleman in The Traitors. Here’s what to watch this evening

Suzy Klein defends BBC’s ‘incredibly strong and passionate’ commitment to culture programming

Exclusive: Dramas pay homage to Waldemar Haffkine, who created vaccines for bubonic plague and cholera

Anselm Kiefer received The Queen Sonja Lifetime Achievement Award

As art and cultural historian Simon Schama has explained, the term “landscape” originated from Dutch and German etymology – literally speaking of shaping the land as a cultural activity. It is gratifying to see this term being rehabilitated after decades of substitution for the term “environment”.

Rightwing culture warriors can’t help torching the truth with observations on New York’s landmark and London’s Ulez

Pandemics. Quarantine. Vaccines. These concepts have been at the forefront of our minds for over three years now. Having lived through the height of the COVID pandemic, it would be easy for us to imagine we have just experienced something unique in human history.