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Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David Nicholls, and a deep dive into the day’s news with Independent journalists and leading thinkers – this year’s Hay Festival programme is fit to burst with unmissable events. Jessie Thompson picks the highlights

With a programme rammed-full of performances, panels and talks, we pick some of this year’s best events

The film-spinoff restaurant drama is all about people not plates. Elsewhere, a Partygate docudrama is painful viewing and David Beckham bares little

One of Britain’s most pre-eminent historians on how the capital’s gravitational pull for talent and investment has been regarded as a weakness for the Union

Most history documentaries are so drearily simplistic they make you cross-eyed with boredom. Thank goodness then for this fascinating, first-rate effort about how our septic isle came to be

David Olusoga takes us on a journey that begins in 1707 with the creation of a new nation. Plus, a grim dramatisation of the Yorkshire Ripper’s reign of terror. Here’s what to watch this evening

Union won’t necessarily draw the type of viewers that do not already watch history programmes. But it is a fascinating look at the UK’s dark past

The historian’s new TV series, Union, exposes the contradictions and conflicting identities that have beset the United Kingdom from its earliest alliances to our present divisions

How much do you really know about the history of the United Kingdom? What passes for “British history” is, all too often, merely the history of England with bits of the histories of Scotland, Wales and Ireland tacked on when they affected events in England.