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ENVIRONMENT The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet

Available from 4 December The Prince of Wales’s environmental awards are back for a second year. Winners from around the world receive £1 million to scale up their inventions to help tackle the climate crisis. Finalists include a project that turns desert into farmable land and efforts to create wildlife corridors for orangutans between fragments of habitat in Malaysia. Five winners, described as “innovators, leaders and visionaries”, are announced in Boston. SHERNA NOAH

FOOD Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy

Available now The insouciant style, charisma and appropriate credentials of Stanley Tucci, the occasional lapse into Italian, glorious locations, a little history and a lot of mouth-watering food… It’s no wonder this gem of a series was devoured by those who discovered it. It’s a delicious show for foodies and TV travellers alike. The American actor with Italian roots and adventurous taste buds eats his way across the 20 regions of Italy but he also visits London. Buona mangiata! JANE RACKHAM

DOCUMENTARY Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen

Available now Her reputation may be as a cosy writer who crafted parlour-game mysteries, but Agatha Christie was — according to Worsley — someone who subverted detective fiction in radical ways. In this insightful three-parter, the historian explores Christie’s flair for narrative fiendishness by delving into her uneasy childhood before probing her disappearance in 1926. In many cases, the inspiration for her mysteries turns out to be dark and, in one case, tragic. DAVID BROWN

MUSIC 6 Music Artist in Residence: AAA Loyle Carner

Available now Fun fact: Loyle Carner is a foodie, and runs a cookery school for kids called Chilli Con Carner. And true to form, the London rapper arrives at Maida Vale for this 6 Music video special with a pastry in one hand and his new album in his other. The station has been a champion of Carner since his early days and now it’s payback time, as he delves into his sonic cookery book to show how he gets his beats (or should that be beets?) so juicy. GARY ROSE