TV reviewReality TVReviewThe first ever UK gay dating show – hosted by Dannii Minogue – is fun, relatable and follows the tried-and-tested Love Island formula. What a thrill it is to watch There have been many legitimate complaints aimed at ITV’s brash yet brilliant blockbuster Love Island – too much lighting, too few people of colour – but one that has always seemed a bit, well, muggy is the idea that the UK’s most excessive example of straight culture should become a little … gayer.

Ireland This article is more than 10 years oldIRA sniper Bernard McGinn found dead in IrelandThis article is more than 10 years old56-year-old shot Lance Bombardier Stephen Restorick, the last British soldier to be killed before the Good Friday agreementAn IRA sniper who killed the last British soldier in the Troubles has been found dead in a house in the Irish Republic, the Garda Síochána has announced. Bernard McGinn is believed to have died from natural causes after being discovered at the property in Monaghan town on Saturday.

An island guide to TobagoFood and drinkTop 10 dishes in TobagoVisitors expecting little more than patties and jerk chicken may be surprised by the variety of food on offer in Tobago. Trinbagonian cuisine is a rich mix of African, Indian, Chinese, European and Middle Eastern influencesLobsterDon't miss the opportunity to taste some freshly caught and reasonably priced lobster while on the island. An ideal spot is The Watermill, which reopened in May this year under the management of Santos Dillon, who previously ran Dillon's Seafood Restaurant.

TV tonightTelevision & radioNever-before-seen footage shows the terrifying reality of what happened in 2021. Plus: Jon Snow reflects on his incredible career. Here’s what to watch this evening Evacuation9pm, Channel 4This haunting three-part documentary about the evacuation of Kabul in 2021 runs throughout this week. It uses excellent never-before-seen footage shot by combat camera teams and interviews with servicemen and women and British and Afghan citizens. “I need to come to terms, personally, with some of the stuff that I did,” says one soldier in the opener.

Best podcasts of the weekPodcastsMissing Richard Simmons’s Dan Taberski returns with a new series about the ripple effects of the attacks which took place 20 years ago this week. Plus: Philippa Perry on sibling stresses Picks of the week9/12 (Available now on Wondery+ and Amazon Music, and widely from 8 September) Unlike much of the current crop of 9/11 programming, which considers the event itself, this new series from Dan Taberski (Missing Richard Simmons) instead looks at the ripple effects, and the reality for different Americans on 12 September 2001.

Jay Rayner on restaurantsFoodReviewThe new kids on this block promise ‘good times’. If only it were true Block Soho, Clarion House, 2 Saint Anne’s Court, London W1F 0AZ (020 3376 9999). Starters £9-£17, Sunday lunch £15-£26, desserts £9, wines from £27 Hung on the wall above the urinal at Block Soho was a promotional poster for the Sunday lunch I had recently completed. It bore the slogan: “Whole joints, big flames, good times.

The ObserverPop and rockReview(Island) The Irish singer-songwriter draws on some classic literary sources for his entrancing but overlong third album Irish singer-songwriter Andrew Hozier-Byrne’s third album is a lot. A teetering stack of soul and rock teeming with furrow-browed, denim-jacketed, glass-cased emotion. It should come with a reading list – its 16 songs are patterned by way of Dante’s Inferno and he has said that epic poetry such as Metamorphoses inspired him.

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Great explorers you’ve probably never heard ofRussia holidaysLauded by Tolstoy and idolised by the Soviet Union, Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay campaigned for the suppression of slavery and challenged deceitful Europeans Passport details Born in Rozhdestvenskoye, Russia, on 17 July 184, and cursed with a name that’s confusing even for Russophiles, Miklouho-Maclay may be the greatest and most likable 19th-century explorer you’ve never heard of.  Claim to fame His adventures straddled the globe from the Canary Islands and North Africa to Patagonia, Easter Island, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, the Philippines and New Guinea.

Classical musicObituaryYuri Temirkanov obituaryRussian conductor admired for his electrifying interpretations of his nation’s repertoire, especially Prokofiev and TchaikovskyAs head of two of Russia’s leading musical institutions, the Kirov (later, Mariinsky) Opera and Ballet Theatre (1976-88) and the Leningrad (later, St Petersburg) Philharmonic Orchestra, of which he was principal conductor for more than three decades from 1988, Yuri Temirkanov, who has died aged 84, was at the forefront of music in the Soviet Union for nearly half a century.