When Jacob Dunne hit James Hodgkinson in a pub brawl, he had no idea the single punch would kill him. He recounts how his victim’s mother, Joan, helped turn his life around, while she reveals what drove her to confront the stranger who took her boy’s life – and how they feel now the story has inspired a new play

I was released from prison on New Year’s Eve 2012. I came out with more complex needs than I had before going in: lower self-esteem, fewer aspirations, less optimistic about the future. I was angry at myself and others. I had none of the skills required to communicate, be vulnerable or support myself. I was destined to join the 46% of people in England and Wales who reoffend within their first year post-prison. I was 20 years old with no fixed address, no qualifications or work experience and manslaughter on my criminal record.

The comedian, 41, talks about time with kids, normalising champagne, and why they probably won’t have a roast

Lie-in or early start?
Always an early start. My one-year-old has just started sleeping until 6.15am. It feels much later than that because for a long time it was consistently 5am.

What time is breakfast?
About two minutes after either child gets downstairs. I’ll fill the kettle the night before and have a mug ready with a tea bag in it, so it’s good to go before I give the baby his bottle. Then it’s a video call to Australia to my in-laws, making the baby do his new tricks, high-octane stuff like clapping.

At such a juncture of history, Hollywood must deliver its best: melodrama, conspiracy, dreams – not to mention the films

There is a common complaint among film buffs that cinema, dominated by superhero fantasies and blockbuster franchises, isn’t what it used to be. They look back misty-eyed to the 1940s heyday of the studio system or to the 1970s rise of the counterculture auteurs as celluloid golden ages that are destined never to be repeated.

It is, then, a rebuke to the naysayers that the 97th Academy Awards boasts a full array of compelling genres: steamy melodrama, political conspiracy thriller, science-fiction action and disaster epic.

Easy to apply and with an instant effect, these products will give you luminous skin

Liquid highlighters will give you luminous skin – quickly. Tap and blend on the bridge of your nose and the high points of your face, like your cheekbones. But avoid using them on the forehead, otherwise you will look greasy rather than glowy, especially in photographs. (Top tip, though: if you mix it in with your foundation, the results are sublime.) Solid highlighters are another option, but if you are new to this, they have disaster-waiting-to-happen written all over them. I once had a shimmering gold, solid highlighter smash in my bag. And yes, it was every inch as bad as it sounds.

1. Rare Beauty Luminizer Liquid Positive Light £24, spacenk.co.uk
2. Vieve Nova Glow Liquid Light £27, vievebeauty.com
3. Saie Glowy Super Gel £22, cultbeauty.co.uk
4. Dior Forever Glow Maximalist Highlighter £36, dior.com
5. Ilia Liquid Light Serum Highlighter £42, sephora.co.uk

The BBC’s Towards Zero follows the scandalous life and loves of an adulterous tennis pro, and it’s slick from the get-go. Plus, Tom Hanks narrates epic nature show The Americas – and it’s Oscars night!

9pm, BBC One
Challengers meets Agatha Christie in the latest slick adaptation, which follows the aftermath of the scandal of adulterous pro tennis player Nevile Strange (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) – who holidays at his coastal family pile with his wife and ex-wife. At Gull’s Point, owned by the no-nonsense Lady Tressilian (Anjelica Huston), there are more guests and residents with grudges. Naturally, a murder is ahead. Hollie Richardson

Second home owners are poised to fight back as Cornwall prepares to impose double council tax – leaving councillors fearing for their budget

Cornwall councillor Steve Arthur is convinced that this year’s council budget will have a large hole in it because of tax-avoiding second home owners.

Arthur, a local businessman who runs a holiday cottage firm in Perranporth on the north Cornish coast, expects many of the county’s second home owners to nominate their children as council tax payers.