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Readers recommendMusicA reader finds a way through your suggestions, meeting Chet Baker, the Clash and Eric Clapton along the way Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of your suggestions last week. Thanks for taking part. Read more about how our weekly series works at the end of the piece. “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” artist Paul Gauguin asked in 1897.

TV reviewTelevisionReviewEvery subtle scene is stuffed with emotion, poignancy and a great sense of humour. It’s a lovely antidote to TV’s more stressful shows Somebody Somewhere can be a hard sell. In each of its roughly half-hour episodes, people talk, drive, go home. It is a series of small character studies, set in a sleepy town in Kansas, and whatever plot rears its head tends to gently nudge the drama forward in ever-so-gentle increments.

Weather trackerHurricanesAnalysisWeather tracker: Super Typhoon Bolaven moves through western PacificLauren Herdman and Matt AndrewsWith sustained winds of 180mph, Bolaven became the second strongest storm of 2023 This week the powerful Super Typhoon Bolaven developed in the western Pacific Ocean. It began forming on Saturday and gradually strengthened as it tracked north-east, passing between Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands on Tuesday as a category 1 equivalent storm. Bolaven subsequently underwent a process known as rapid intensification, with sustained wind speeds increasing from 90mph to 160mph (145km/h to 255km/h)– the equivalent of a category 5 hurricane – in just 12 hours.

RED TAPE, WHITE LIESWhat's the difference between MI5 and MI6? What happened to MI1 - MI4 and are there agencies with higher numbers (MI7, MI8, etc.)? Matt Denham, Dorchester UK I believe the difference is like the FBI and CIA in the USA - one is for domestic intelligence and one is for international intelligence. But I'm not sure which one is which. I also think that some of the other numbers may have been active in intelligence and of the like during the world wars.

Life and styleTarot used to be seen as the domain of the credulous. It’s now seen as a means of coping with the present, thanks to psychology-minded practitioners like Jessica Dore When Jessica Dore was growing up, her mother had a tarot deck from which she’d pull cards – much to the mounting mortification of her daughter. As a child, Dore went along with it as fortune-telling fun. But “as an adolescent, it was sort of like ‘Mind your own business’”, she says wryly.

‘There are times when you want to be helpless’ … the Royal Ballet star, now the subject of a film called Force of Nature Natalia. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian‘There are times when you want to be helpless’ … the Royal Ballet star, now the subject of a film called Force of Nature Natalia. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The GuardianNatalia OsipovaInterview'Mmmm, it was electrifying!’ Natalia Osipova on finding a perfect partnerLyndsey WinshipAs the explosively powerful dancer makes the leap into film, she talks about feeling bloodied and bruised by her latest work – and how loving her dogs helps her perform

24 hours in pictures: June 25 2007 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Mon 25 Jun 2007 16.29 BST First published on Mon 25 Jun 2007 16.29 BST Moscow, Russia: A woman sells items at a flea market. Photograph: ALEXANDER TITORENKO/AFP Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Ramallah, West Bank: A Palestinian money changer counts banknotes as he waits for customers.

Film blogMoviesFilm quiz: High school promsThere's a new adaptation of Carrie out this week, showing today's youngsters how to really mess up someone's prom night. To mark the occasion, here are brief descriptions of 10 other prom nights and school dances. Can you match the proms with the films they featured in?ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaJ6ZobpwssilpJukn5x8ssHIs2ZraGFofK%2B71Whpb2eWnrmuedCuoLNlmJ60qXnSnJ%2Bop5xivbO7zKw%3D

Nicholas Harding in his Camperdown studio in 2010. ‘From the start, his work was beautiful if rather gloomy.’ Photograph: Marco Del GrandeNicholas Harding in his Camperdown studio in 2010. ‘From the start, his work was beautiful if rather gloomy.’ Photograph: Marco Del GrandePainting This article is more than 1 year old‘He found beauty and colour everywhere’: celebrating the life of Nicholas Harding This article is more than 1 year oldDavid MarrWe will miss the award-winning painter who died this week aged 66