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After the Flood review an unexpectedly riveting disaster drama

TV reviewTelevisionReviewAfter a predictably watery start, this six-parter becomes an ace murder mystery starring the wonderful Sophie Rundle and Lorraine Ashbourne. A rare treat from ITV I’ll be honest with you. My hopes weren’t high for new six-part drama After the Flood. ITV drama is a hit-and-miss affair – increasingly the former, but not yet often enough that you can approach an evening’s viewing with unassailable confidence in the investment you are about to make – and the publicity made this one sound like a standard police procedural, with added water.

Barbie can be a computer engineer ... but only with help of a man | Women

Women This article is more than 9 years oldBarbie can be a computer engineer ... but only with help of a manThis article is more than 9 years old‘I’ll need Steven and Brian’s help to turn this into a real game!’ laughs computer programmer Barbie in new book Breaking away from her pink heels, pink ball gown and oversized pink hairbrush, Barbie – the fashion doll manufactured by Mattel – now has a range of gender-stereotype-breaking books.

Bob Marley's 30 greatest songs ranked! | Bob Marley

Bob Marley performing at the Rainbow theatre in London in 1977. Photograph: Adrian Boot/ReutersAs Tuff Gong releases a limited edition series of Marley albums, we pick the greatest work of reggae’s biggest star by Alexis Petridis30. Rude Boy (1965)The ska-era Wailers launch themselves into the 60s Jamaican vogue for singles either praising or condemning the violent Kingston “rude boy” youth cult. Tellingly, given the socio-political songs that lay ahead of him, Marley focuses on the deprived circumstances that birthed the phenomenon: “Want it want it – can’t get it, get it get it – no want it.

Donald West obituary | Health, mind and body books

Health, mind and body booksObituaryDonald West obituaryWriter of a book on homosexuality that helped change the climate of opinion at a time when sex between men was illegalThe criminologist and psychiatrist Donald West, who has died aged 95, made his name with his book Homosexuality, first published in 1955. The time was right, West wrote then, to deal with the “problem” of homosexuality in a dispassionate and popular manner. Very little had been published previously on the subject for a wide readership.

Mad Men: season four, episode three | Mad Men

Mad Men: notes from the break roomMad MenMad Men: season four, episode threeA visit to Anna leaves Don devastated. So he heads to the only place close to being a home – the SCDP officesSPOILER ALERT: This blog is for those who are watching season four of Mad Men on BBC4. Don't read on if you haven't seen episode three – and if you've seen more of the series, please be aware that many UK viewers will not have done so …