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‘Make wine and share it. What more could you want?’: Sam Neill is remembered by his co-stars | Sam Neill

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Sam Neill,Film,Culture,Lindsay Duncan,Drama films,Television,Television & radio,World news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: "A wonderful man and a wonderful actor"Lindsay Duncan, co-starring in Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983) and Blackbird (2019)I worked with Sam on Reilly when I was young and shy, and even though he pinned me to a desk in one scene, I didn't get the most out of the experience. Then a few years ago we shot a movie called Blackbird, directed by Roger Michell, with an amazing group of actors and we all became close…

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Eat, sleep, rave…make peace! DJ Yousuke Yukimatsu’s mission to change the world through topless rave | Dance music

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✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dance music,Electronic music,Music,Japan,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TSeveral years ago this month, Japanese DJ Yusuke Yukimatsu suffered an epileptic seizure. When he didn't show up to book the festival, organizers called his friends in Osaka, who found him exhausted at home. He was taken to hospital where doctors diagnosed him with a brain tumor. “If no one had contacted me, I probably would have died,” he posted on a crowdfunding platform several months later.In the black-and-white photo accompanying a crowdfunding in support of his work, Yukimatsu…

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Mastermind of €88m Louvre heist believes ‘they could have taken more’ | Paris

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Paris,France,Europe,Museums,World news,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Two men suspected of stealing the Crown Jewels worth €88m (£75m) from the Louvre Museum in Paris last October have told investigators that the alleged mastermind behind the heist was disappointed by the stolen items and thought they "could have taken more".The French newspaper Le Monde cited transcripts of the interrogation of the alleged thieves last month by the two investigating judges responsible for the investigation, providing detailed insights into the robbery that made international headlines and led to the…

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TV Tonight: Chris Packham’s brilliant series on evolution | television

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: development9pm on BBC TwoChris Packham begins his fascinating five-part series next to a Kenyan waterhole, laughing in amused amazement at the magnificent creature that is the African elephant. No one would ever design an animal like this, so how did it evolve? The answer is a four-billion-year-old epic story of hunger, conflict, and earth-shaking natural disasters, all of which made the survivors stronger. Jack SealeAnimal control6pm, Sky OneFour seasons have already aired in the US, and now this sitcom about…

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A Year in London Review – Fashion student clashes with her professor in a frothy gay romantic comedy | film

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🚀 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Romance films,LGBTQ+ rights,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A The story of the year is about how long this film feels so strange, although there are moments when the TV series silliness, love longing for images and wooden line readings in Google Translate are mildly amusing.Olivia (Nina Pons) is a young fashion student from southern Italy who gets the opportunity of a lifetime to spend a year in our glamorous capital at the London Academy of Haute Couture in South Kensington. It seems like saucer-eyed Olivia can't get…

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The impact of Brexit, 2016-2026, edited by Anthony Seldon Review – Life Without the EU | History books

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✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: History books,Politics books,Books,Culture,Essays,Brexit ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: THis huge collection of essays by 43 different authors, including seven princes, four barons, one lady and three knights of the realm, is perhaps the closest we will ever come to quasi-formal thinking about the causes and consequences of Brexit. Its editor, Sir Anthony Seldon, is an honorary historian at 10 Downing Street and has written definitive works on successive British administrations in the twenty-first century.However, the phrase “English nationalism” appears precisely once in its six hundred pages –…

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Review by Ana Mendieta – If She Were Alive, She Would Be at the forefront of Art This Century | Art and design

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Art,Culture,Sculpture,Exhibitions,Tate Modern,Cuba ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A A huge color photograph of an ancient ruined site greets you outside the dramatic Ana Mendieta exhibition, and immediately tells you that this is going to be different. This sort of thing looks more like it belongs in a British Museum exhibition about a lost pre-Columbian civilization than the concrete fortress of the Blavatnik Wing at Tate Modern. But in her imagination, this is where Mendieta belongs, too. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1948, she was sent to…

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I interviewed Sam Neill in 2024. He was more charming than I expected | Sam Neill

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Sam Neill,Film,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I He interviewed Sam Neill in 2024, remotely: He was in Vancouver filming the Netflix series Untamed, but we were there to talk about a twisty Australian courtroom drama, The Twelve. He was immediately honest. He said his second season was "much stronger" than the first, which was absolutely true, as the first was a bit corny, and the second showed more confidence in its audience and our tolerance for nuance.But actors, in general, will never say anything remotely critical…

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‘A true gentleman’: Actors, directors and leaders pay tribute to Sam Neill | Sam Neill

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Sam Neill,Film,Culture,New Zealand,Australia news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Friends, peers and fans of Sam Neill were quick to pay tribute to the actor, following his sudden death on Monday at the age of 78.Steven Spielberg, who directed Neal in Jurassic Park, said he was "saddened" to hear of Neal's death. “Sam was exceptionally helpful,” he added. “It was difficult for him to play a character who acted as if the children were messy and smelly because that was the opposite of a father who loved his…

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Chatsworth House Pilots Free Entry Scheme “Society Membership” | legacy

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Heritage,Culture,UK cost of living crisis,Derbyshire,Emily Brontë,UK news,England,Libraries,Books 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When Kate, a 47-year-old contract worker, came face to face with Charlotte Brontë's handwriting during her visit to Chatsworth House, the avid reader, who counts Jane Eyre as her favorite book, struggled to contain her excitement.“I've had some time,” she said. "I just thought: 'Wow, that was actually what Charlotte Brontë was writing there on that page.' That was very special.This was her first visit inside Chatsworth House. Although she has lived just 90 minutes…

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