Twenty springtime cultural highlights in the UK

From Normal People on TV to Beethoven at the Royal Festival Hall, Observer critics pick the best from the new seasonLove (and sex) are very much in the air on television this spring as the much-hyped adaptation of Normal People, Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel, arrives on BBC Three. Relative newcomers Daisy Edgar-Jones (best-known as Olivia in Cold Feet) and Paul Mescal (making his TV debut) take the lead roles of Marianne and Connell, two very different teenagers who fall unexpectedly in