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An Austrian émigré who fled the Nazis to settle in Britain, art historian EH Gombrich was one of the most eminent public intellectuals of his time. Among other highlights in a remarkable life, he was the man who alerted Churchill to Hitler’s death while monitoring German broadcasts for the BBC World Service, and wrote the much-quoted aphorism: “There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.” For Archive on 4: The Story of EH Gombrich (Radio 4, Saturday 28 July), long-time fan Robert Newman considers Gombrich’s influence. Also on Radio 4, Reflections with Peter Hennessy ( Tuesday 31 July), the show in which the historian discusses recent political history with senior politicians, returns with four new episodes. Among the dramas on Radio 4, there’s a new adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King (Sunday 22 July); and Tommies ( Wednesday 1 August) returns with another set of snapshots of life a century ago. Highlights on Yesterday include Shipwreck Psycho ( Wednesday 25 July). This is a programme that tells a gruesomely fascinating tale of what happened after a Dutch ship, Batavia, was wrecked on a coral reef off Australia. The Viking Dead ( Yesterday, Tuesday 31 July) focuses on excavations at Norse burial sites. Earthrise: The First Lunar Voyage (PBS America, Monday 30 July) looks back at Christmas Eve 1968, when one of the largest TV audiences in history tuned in to see a live telecast of the Moon’s surface as seen from Apollo 8, the first manned space flight to leave Earth’s orbit.