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TV tonight: Jamie Oliver cooks up a new campaign – to help children with dyslexia

Fuelled by his own experience, the chef bids high to spark an educational reform. Plus: Jane Austen’s Emma takes shape on the page. Here’s what to watch this evening

Walk on the wild side: Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs on their epic hiking movie The Salt Path

Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir about her and her husband’s 630-mile trek around England’s south coast has become a film. Its stars, makers and Winn talk floods, fog and forgiveness

The Salt Path review – Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs hike from ruin to renewal

Marianne Elliott directs this affecting drama, based on Raynor Winn’s memoir, which builds steadily as the couple journey towards redemption

The North review – old friends’ trek through the Highlands might be the ultimate hiking film

Patiently following the progress of two pals’ reunion across Scotland, director Bart Schrijver achieves a majestic drama that never forces its epiphanies

TV tonight: a new series that goes inside life-changing therapy sessions

Emma and Matt Willis meet people who want to make a change in their lives. Plus: warm up with the Eurovision semi-finals. Here’s what to watch this evening

Sarah Wilson: ‘Worrying about your gut biome when the world’s burning is too indulgent’

From I Quit Sugar to the ‘shittification of life’, writer and journalist Sarah Wilson on breaking up with hope and finding happiness in collapse theory

Final autopsy results on Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, reveal complex health issues

Report confirms that Arakawa died of hantavirus and her husband, who had heart problems and Alzeimer’s disease, may not have realised she had died

Love My Face review – this presenter is an absolute gift to television

Jono Lancaster is a compassionate, authoritative presence – an absolute natural. It’s just a shame that we don’t get more of him in this show about helping people with facial differences overcome their issues with the way they look

Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life by Frances Ryan review – countering the stereotypes

The journalist’s second book offers positivity in the face of the obstacles confronting disabled girls and women

A lifesaving midwife in Afghanistan: Noriko Hayashi’s best photograph

‘This woman was nine months pregnant but had never had a checkup. Anisa is listening to the baby’s heartbeat with a stethoscope. After foreign aid cuts, including Trump’s, she is now out of a job’

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