The patient who loves buying lettuce for his daughter-in-law – and what his case teaches us about shared decision-making in medicine Ranjana Srivastava (www.theguardian.com)
A TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to stop that Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong (www.theguardian.com)
‘My mother was 4ft 11in and scared the hell out of people’ – Sean Astin on child stardom, The Lord of the Rings and surviving 45 years in Hollywood (www.theguardian.com)
Sweet, fragrant, impossible to resist – south Asian mangoes in Australia’s winter summon memories and unite historic enemies Shadi Khan Saif (www.theguardian.com)
From the strait of Hormuz to the North Sea, a global maritime war rages around us – and more than the price of oil is at stake Simon Tisdall (www.theguardian.com)
‘I never mentioned it for 25 years. I didn’t want to be a victim of the bomb’: Hiroshima survivor Koko Kondo on horror, anger and forgiveness (www.theguardian.com)