First to The Odyssey, and if it’s possible to have spoilers about a story which has been in circulation for nearly 3,000 years, then so be it. There can’t be many people who don’t know the story. But alongside all the headline stuff, the swordplay, Cyclops and Circe bits, there was a depth to Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster that I hadn’t anticipated.

Happily for those of us who came away from the movie with a thirst to know more, our brilliant authors have provided some fascinating insights into Nolan’s reading of Homer’s classic tale. The crippling survivor guilt suffered by Odysseus which the nymph Calypso treats with the lotus - the flower of forgetting - which has parallels with the PTSD suffered by many returning soldiers.

In fact, there’s a body of scholarship around symptoms suffered by combat veterans which Homer appears to have anticipated with remarkable prescience. And anyone who wasn’t moved by the hero’s encounter with his ageing hunting dog Argos, has never shared their lives with a hound.

If you are boarding a flight this summer, don’t ignore the safety announcement before take-off. That’s one key takeaway from the recent underwater discovery of the wreckage of a Pan Am flight from 1952 in which people who survived the crash landing subsequently drowned because they didn’t know what to do. In fact it was this crash that led to the introduction of safety announcements on flights.

If it’s a long flight, you might like to make a start on the new book about the first year of the second Trump presidency by Washington journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. Some of Donald Trump’s language should probably come with a trigger warning though.

And if you are looking for something good to watch this weekend, go no further than Force of Nature. The new documentary from some of the team which brought us Blue Planet II is an in-depth look at how the animal kingdom is attempting, successfully in many cases, to live with the extreme weather that is so often a consequence of climate change.

Also this week: when to eat that old fruit and veg and when to bin it, the ancient monsoons that created a dinosaur graveyard and the new research that has identified a “super” enzyme that could transform recycling.