An acting legend laid bare

Man or myth? Discover the real Richard Harris

RICHARD HARRIS: RAISING HELL AND REACHING FOR HEAVEN

The Ghost of Richard Harris, Saturday 9pm Sky Arts When the actor Richard Harris first met journalist Joe Jackson in 1987, they didn’t get on, as Jackson’s probing questions delved too deeply for Harris’s liking. They reconciled, however, and became such good friends that Harris asked Jackson to write his biography. Over the years the pair sat down together many times and recorded their conversations, and Richard Harris: Raising Hell and Reaching for Heaven (Merrion Press, £22.99, out 25 November) is the result. Part memoir and part entries from Jackson’s journals, it paints a deeply personal portrait of the man behind the tag of “legendary actor”. See feature page 22

CORONATION STREET PUZZLE BOOK

Coronation Street ITV Fans of both Coronation Street and brainteasers, your time has come. The world’s longestrunning soap now has a puzzle book featuring more than 200 headscratchers for you to test your knowledge of the cobbles. Classic puzzles have been given a Corrie twist (the sudoku has become the Ken-doku, for example), and there are Rovers pub quizzes alongside the more cryptic questions. With puzzles for all ability levels interspersed with trivia from the soap’s history, The Official Coronation Street Puzzle Book (Cassell, £14.99) is a great way for fans to pass the time until the next episode.

SAS ROGUE HEROES

BEN MACINTYRE SAS Rogue Heroes Sunday 9pm BBC1 Ben Macintyre has been writing about the Second World War for years, with several of his books being adapted for TV and film — and SAS Rogue Heroes (Penguin, £9.99) is the latest, now showing on BBC1 and starring Connor Swindells, Jack O’Connell, Dominic West, Tom Glynn-Carney and Alfie Allen. Macintyre was given unprecedented access to the SAS’s secret files, and he dives deep into them to tell the story of the men who created one of the world’s most famous military units. RHIANNON THOMAS