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Hannah Booth: ‘The release of talking, of being listened to, is an emotional experience.’ Photograph: Pål Hansen/The GuardianTherapy was like finding a key for a door that had been locked my whole life. Here are the nine things it’s taught me Listen to an audio version of this article by Hannah BoothI am standing outside an ordinary house in a tree-lined street on a midsummer afternoon, about to change my life.

BanksySteve Lazarides was the art renegade’s strategist, photographer and minder. As his shots are published, he recalls the politics, parties and soaring price tags of ‘Matey Boy’ One Christmas, Steve Lazarides and Banksy decided to kill Santa. “Reject false icons,” read the slogan hastily spray painted across their shopfront, behind a highly festive effigy they had created of Father Christmas dangling from a noose. Dotted around were signs intended to lure passersby into their shop, in the hope that they would join in the party and buy some artworks.

TheatreReviewRiverside Studios, London A talented cast can’t save this bizarre production about a holiday romance dogged by a conflict in ideology This musical begins like a cheesy Mills & Boon romance and goes downhill from there, taking bizarre turns into biomolecular science. Maggie (Madalena Alberto), a celebrated biophysicist who only believes in the material world, goes to Italy and meets Luke (Tim Rogers), who wears his shirt unbuttoned almost to the navel and gives mountaintop tutorials about mysticism.

Ozone layerObituaryMario Molina obituaryMexican scientist who helped discover dangers posed by CFCs to the ozone layer, leading to an international ban on their use Unknown to humanity, in the later decades of the last century an environmental crisis was slowly unfolding in the upper atmosphere. The existence of the ozone layer was proved by chemists in the early 20th century, but as a scientific curiosity rather than a beneficial barrier. A thin layer between the troposphere, in which we live, and the stratosphere, the ozone layer filters out about 99% of harmful ultraviolet light from the sun before it hits the Earth.

BooksReviewKathy Kleiman’s offers a valuable boost to our understanding of modern computers and their beginnings in wartime In 1942, the unthinkable happened. This “help wanted” ad appeared in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: “Looking for Women Math Majors.” Under the Skin review: US healthcare, racism and a terrible toll takenRead moreThe ad was placed by the US army, which was hiring women to work at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, at the University of Pennsylvania.

The ObserverInteriorsThe founder of Led Zeppelin shows off Tower House, his beloved Victorian castle in London Growing up in London, there was a house I was fascinated by. It looked like a mini castle with a tower; red-bricked and handsome, a portal to another time with its stained-glass windows. Back then, I had no idea who lived there. Later, I discovered it belonged to the guitarist and music producer Jimmy Page, erstwhile of Led Zeppelin.

Afro modernism: Africa's avant-garde architecture boom – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The 1960s and 70s were an explosive period for experimental architecture in Africa – from vast Toblerone-shaped exhibition centres to giant lily-bud auditoriums. Swiss architect Manuel Herz has tracked down 80 of these lost monuments of African independence for a new book, African Modernism

Ramiro Funes Mori lived in the US for eight years before returning to Argentina. Photograph: Joe Nicholson/USA Today SportsView image in fullscreenRamiro Funes Mori lived in the US for eight years before returning to Argentina. Photograph: Joe Nicholson/USA Today SportsSportblogArgentinaThe Everton defender – known as ‘the yankee’ after spending his early career in America – will be on familiar ground facing the US in the Copa América semi-final

Play timeStageReviewThe Place, London This imaginative stage show is ripping fun for under-fives, who will be mesmerised by the paper birds and monsters My son Jamie has just turned four and he’s seen a few shows, mostly puppets and Julia Donaldson adaptations. I tell him this will be a new kind of show for him. “I like the old kind of show better,” he says, a boy not keen on change.