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💥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Economics,Accounting and finance,Art and design,Painting,University of Bristol,Bristol ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: My father, Don Egginton, who has died aged 92, was professor of accounting at the University of Bristol and head of the university's economics department. A distinguished teacher and respected academic, he was also an accomplished artist, creating works in various media over a period of 50 years. His portrait of the economist Alfred Marshall, after a 1908 painting by Sir William Rothstein, hangs in the university.Don was born in the East End of London to…

✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Bake: The Professionals8pm on Channel 4With a place in the final six at stake, the four remaining teams must produce twenty pieces of delicious melfe and perfectly executed babka cakes. Before that happens, they're tasked with creating intricate cookies inspired by ancient wonders of the world (the Hanging Gardens of Bourbon, anyone?) accompanied by elegant mini plates. Ali CatterallThe best medicine8pm, Sky One“I'm a doctor, not a social worker!” The late American adaptation of Doc Martin continues, with big-city doctor…

🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Religion,Books,JD Vance,Rowan Williams,US politics 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: AThe core of this strange, and perhaps somewhat poignant, book is the biblical question: “What must I do to be saved?” Not in the simple sense of how to secure a place in heaven, but as an urgent challenge to the whole stock of destructive assumptions and customs sanctioned by the majority culture. In his famous first book, "Hillbilly Elegy," Vance chronicled, among other things, the impact of drug abuse on generations of the rural poor. It is not…

💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Art and design,Culture,Bayeux tapestry,British Museum,Exhibitions,Architecture,Heritage,Painting 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: THere's a carved stone figure scowling ferociously in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral and you can see why – a man sitting on his head, legs apart, holding a fish and a bowl in his outstretched arms. Other figures atop slender stone columns include a snake-tailed creature wrestling a dog-like beast, a griffon eating a siren, and a (now separate) sculpture of a horned devil. All this nefariousness in the depths of the holiest shrine in England.But…

✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Science fiction and fantasy films,Thrillers,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: CA decade after the year Blade Runner was set, this film remains the gold standard of dystopian futures. This is evident from the dark green and Asian signage of the crumbling city where this sci-fi thriller begins; The last remnants of civilization after a mysterious catastrophe called The Event. As Earth enters a new Dark Age, outside the cities there is a noxious fog that shrouds everything in perpetual winter.Fortunately, our child protagonist (Athena Park) has the coziest…