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How we madeTelevision & radioInterviewDee Dee Wilde and Babs Powell: how we made Pan's PeopleInterviews by Dave SimpsonBabs Powell: 'We wanted to put dancing on the map. Our work in Belgium was a bit like the Beatles in Hamburg'Dee Dee Wilde, dancerWe got our big break after a couple of us passed auditions for the Go-Jos – Top of the Pops' original group of dancers. After the show, Ruth Pearson and I buttonholed the producer, Colin Charman.

Israel-Gaza war This article is more than 1 month oldFighting terrorism did not mean Israel had to ‘flatten Gaza’, says Emmanuel MacronThis article is more than 1 month oldFrench president calls on Israel ‘to stop this response because it is not appropriate’ as he repeats ceasefire demand Emmanuel Macron has said that Israel’s goal of fighting terrorism did not mean it had to “flatten Gaza”, referring to its response to Hamas’s attack on 7 October.

Brian Rix in 1984. His farces usually involved a lie, a comic deception and someone being caught with his trousers around his ankles. Photograph: ANL/Rex/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenBrian Rix in 1984. His farces usually involved a lie, a comic deception and someone being caught with his trousers around his ankles. Photograph: ANL/Rex/ShutterstockTheatreObituaryLord Rix obituaryBrilliant comic actor and manager best known for his Whitehall farces who became a dedicated campaigner for people with learning disabilities

Sam Riley plays Pierre Curie alongside Rosamund Pike’s Marie in the biopic Radioactive. Photograph: Allstar/StudioCanal/Laurie SparhamSam Riley plays Pierre Curie alongside Rosamund Pike’s Marie in the biopic Radioactive. Photograph: Allstar/StudioCanal/Laurie SparhamSam RileyHe made his name playing Ian Curtis then found himself in Disney films with Angelina Jolie, but has his current turn as Marie Curie’s husband really taught him how to make a bomb? Science wasn’t Sam Riley’s thing at school.

Art theftNapoleon robbed it, Calvinists nearly burned it, the Nazis were desperate to own it, and part of it has been missing for 80 years. Noah Charney on the world's most tangled art heistJust about everything bad that could happen to a painting has happened to Hubert and Jan van Eyck's Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (also known as the Ghent Altarpiece). It's almost been destroyed in a fire, was nearly burned by rioting Calvinists, it's been forged, pillaged, dismembered, censored, stolen by Napoleon, hunted in the first world war, sold by a renegade cleric, then stolen repeatedly during the second world war, before being rescued by The Monuments Men, miners and a team of commando double-agents.

Working in developmentThe seven sins of humanitarian doucheryAre you guilty of being a humanitarian douchebag? A group in Vancouver is campaigning to end irresponsible voluntourism once and for all Join our community of global development professionals. “Hi. I’m just calling because I’m looking for some more information about helping or aiding the local youths of North America. I really hear that obesity is a huge problem over there ... ”

... on scienceNeuroscienceFrom seeing shapes in clouds to hearing Bing Crosby in a blizzard of static, we're all prone to finding things that aren't there. And there's a name for it: apopheniaThe Latvian psychologist Konstantins Raudive spent the summer of 1965 trying to contact the dead. Every day, with careful precision, he would take a new reel of recording tape from its box, thread the tape through the rollers of the recorder and set up the microphone next to a mistuned radio.

Lockdown livingMapsKevin Rushby explores the Berwyn range’s contours and landmarks from the comfort of his home – finishing the hike with a well deserved, but fantasy, pint The Guardian’s product and service reviews are independent and are in no way influenced by any advertiser or commercial initiative. We will earn a commission from the retailer if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. The method is simple: I examine my pile of Ordnance Survey maps, some battered and torn, others barely used, and find an area of Britain that I would like to visit.

DanceReviewCurve, Leicester The New York company makes a long-awaited English debut with a colourful and lively triple bill that interrogates Latinx stereotypes while celebrating self-actualisation It’s 52 years since Tina Ramirez founded Ballet Hispánico in New York as a haven for marginalised Latinx artists. Now it’s the largest Latinx cultural organisation in the US, run by Cuban American Eduardo Vilaro, but surprisingly making it’s very first appearance on an English stage as part of Leicester’s Let’s Dance International Frontiers festival.