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TONIGHT TV: It’s the long-awaited return of Police Inspector Lynley | television

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Drama,Television & radio 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Lynley8.30pm on BBC OneLeo Suter (Sanditon, Vikings: Valhalla) dons DI Tommy Lynley heels in this 2000s remake of the series, based on the novels by Elizabeth George. Lynley is paired with working-class DS Barbara Havers (Sophia Barclay), who thinks he's just a "fresh-faced city boy who doesn't know his ass from his elbow." But as the chalk and cheese duo continue to solve the first murder case, can their work prove that they are the dream team? Holly RichardsonCorydale8pm on…

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Absolutely Silly Prank Show for Fonejacker Fans: Best Podcasts of the Week | TV and radio

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Podcasts ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Brian Badmond's podcastFonejacker and Facejacker Kayvan Novak is back with this extremely silly series, in which he brings to life one of his most famous characters: failed art critic Brian Badonde. Interviewees include "podcaster" Adam Buxton and singer Ella Eyre, who - despite her podcaster style and inability to correctly pronounce any words that don't start with ab - gives a frank account of her time in the music industry. Hannah J. DavisWidely available, weekly episodesFamily secretsFans of the likes…

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Technology disrupts friendship. It’s time to bring it back

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture Latest 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,EXPIRED/TIRED/WIRED 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Anyone looking for A lively examination of residents' current sentiments about AI would be best served by checking the walls of New York City's subway system. This fall, along with posters for everything from dating apps to Skechers, a newcomer debuted: the boyfriend. The ads were simple, telling passengers that a “friend” is someone who “listens, responds, and supports you” next to an image of an accompanying white AI-powered pendant floating on a similar white background.It was the perfect graffiti…

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We Bury the Dead review – Daisy Ridley takes on the undead in a powerful zombie twist | Horror movies

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Horror films,Daisy Ridley,Film,Culture,Zombies,Drama films 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ShUnlike some other, less malleable horror subgenres, the zombie movie will never truly die. And the filmmakers won't try to add their own twist, which is understandable given how repetitive the die, wake, wood, bite, repeat formula has become. Australian director Zak Hilditch's somewhat subdued attempt, We Bury the Dead, is not quite as striking as it seemed a decade ago and changed a decade ago. Using words like "meditative" and "sad" to describe a movie that includes its…

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Miranda Otto: “It can be a gift when things go completely wrong” | film

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Animation in film,Culture,Family films,Theatre,Stage,Lord of the Rings 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Your latest role is the Squid Queen in The Pout-Pout Fish; If you could be a fish for a day, which one would it be and why?The Blue Groper at Clovelly Beach – because it looks like an institution, people go there to see it. I think it's great to have a local fish that people go to and see and talk about - it's a special fish.What movie do you always go back to, and…

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Review of Waiting to Get Out – A very good TV show about philosophy in prison | TV and radio

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🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Television ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIt is difficult to imagine a better path to true philosophical inquiry than spending time in prison. Remorse, causality, and the nature of freedom: these are pressing issues for prisoners. Time is impossibly empty and passes terrifyingly quickly. You experience endless days and nights with only the inside of your head for company. You are at the extreme end of practical philosophy, whether you like it or not. What is life for? Can it be changed for the better?Accordingly, teaching…

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When a heart attack left me in a coma, my hallucinations inspired a novel – and a new life books

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🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Fiction,Heart attack,Health 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOn the evening of Monday 1 February 2021, during the third coronavirus lockdown, my wife Alexa and I sat on the sofa eating hot dogs and chips in front of the TV. The kids were cranky, and we were tired of trying to homeschool them while working from home, me as a music industry lawyer and Alexa as a charity fundraiser. But at least, Alexa told me, we made it through January.Then it started making strange noises. "Are you kidding?" I…

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‘I have the courage to be exposed’: How Yungblud became Britain’s biggest rock star | music

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Pop and rock,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIn November, Dominic Harrison, known as Yungblud, received three Grammy nominations. The news that he has become the first British artist in history to be nominated multiple times in the awards' rock categories came as a stunning finale to what has been, by all accounts, an exceptional year for the 28-year-old singer-songwriter.In June, his fourth studio album, Idols, entered the UK charts at number one, beating its closest competitor by 50%. In the same month, his annual festival and…

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Simon Stone on the lure of movie stars on stage, family tragedy, and staging a Chekhov play in Korean: ‘It’s one of the proudest moments of my career’ | Simon Stone

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✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Simon Stone,Theatre,Adelaide festival,Stage,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIf Simon Stone had not intended to become a world-renowned theater and film director, he might have followed his parents into science, and might have stayed in Melbourne where he spent much of his childhood.“Australia would have had everything I needed,” he says, although the passionate, youthful-looking, bearded writer-director gave the impression during our interview that Europe would still have retained its appeal.Stone, 41, is speaking to me from Vienna, where he lived for eight years until moving to London…

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The Rivals review – The stunning, thrilling revival is stylishly silly Christmas fun | stage

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💥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: RRichard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy is the perfect revival of the festive period for its crowd-pleasing mix of anarchic spirit, silliness and Mrs. Sheridan's own word-playing Mrs. Malaprop.Tom Littleear's 250th anniversary production transports the upper-class antics of the 18th century play to 1920s Bath to give it a lively energy with incidental songs and a lively Charleston cast. Littler also adapted his production of She Stoops to Conquer to the interwar years, but now there are PG Wodehouse elements, more subtle but one…

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