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Brawls, blackmail and Judi Dench: 75 staggering moments from 75 years of The Archers | The Archers

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: The Archers,Radio,Television & radio,Culture,Farming,Rural affairs,BBC,Radio 4,UK news,Radio industry,Media,Podcasts 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The Archers, Radio 4’s “everyday story of countryfolk” – which the BBC now bills, rather more aspirationally, as a “contemporary drama in a rural setting” – celebrates its diamond anniversary this month. Like many British institutions (Marmite, PMQs, fruit cake) the serial, which launched in 1951, occupies a curious place in the national psyche; the first notes of that determinedly jolly maypole dance will either send you lurching for the power button, or shouting for…

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Googoosh: The Wrong Voice of Googoosh with review by Tara Dehlavi – The Extraordinary Story of an Iranian Icon | Biography and memoirs

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Autobiography and memoir,Pop and rock,Books,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIf you ask any Iranian to name the most important pop star in our country's history, they will say Googoosh. Nobody comes close. Over the course of six decades of revolution, repression, and exile, Googoosh has transformed from a singer into a cultural icon, a symbol of the country's grief for its murdered, imprisoned, and gagged artists, and a living link between pre-revolutionary Iran and its diaspora.Googoosh was only three years old when she started singing in…

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Al Khona Dry Cleaning: Week of Enthusiastic Reviews | culture

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✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...TraitorsBBC iPlayer; Next episode on SaturdaySummarize in a sentence Series four of 'Civilian Traitors' introduces a bold new wrinkle to keep players - and viewers - on their toes.What our reviewer said "Having increased the series' following with The Celebrity Traitors, the BBC could easily have rolled out another urban season using the previous templates and felt confident that audiences would break records. Instead, they have upped the ante and made the format more sophisticated."…

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Bowie: The Final Chapter – 10 years after his death, the rock god gets a colorful resurrection | TV and radio

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Television,David Bowie,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: THere's a theory that the world went off on its axis with the death of David Bowie, 10 days after January 2016. That was also two days after his final, death-filled album Blackstar came out of nowhere. As an artistic statement it was prophetic and flawlessly theatrical. A feature-length documentary now shines a black light on the recording of this album, which some call Bowie's creative resurrection. What does it reveal? Do we want to revisit that place emotionally?Fortunately,…

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I May Destroy You, You Helped Me Face High Exposure | culture

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Television,Television & radio,Michaela Coel,I May Destroy You 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen I May Destroy You aired in the summer of 2020, I hadn't yet been infected. Michaela Coel's comedy-drama, based on her own experiences with sexual assault, follows Arabella (Coel) as she realizes she has been drugged and raped on a night out. With one in four women in Britain experiencing sexual violence, the 12-part series was difficult viewing for many. If it is not relevant, it is confronting and familiar; Something that has happened to…

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Dreaming of writing your novel this year? Rip up all the rules! | Creative writing

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Creative writing,Fiction,Books,Creative writing,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: BeginningI don’t think it’s a bad thing to want to write a first sentence so idiosyncratic, so indelible, so entirely your own that it makes people sit up or reach for a pen or say to a beloved: “Listen to this.” A first line needn’t be ornate or long. It needn’t grab you by the lapels and give you what for. A first line is only a demand for further attention, an invitation to the rest of the book. Whisper…

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The English House Review by Dan Cruickshank – If Walls Could Talk | History books

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✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: History books,Books,Culture,Architecture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: HThe story used to be about wars and histories, but for architectural writer and TV presenter Dan Cruikshank, it's more about floors and grids. In his new book, he takes an insightful tour of eight English houses, from Northumberland to Sussex, dating from the early 18th century to exactly 100 years ago, and ranging from a quaint Gothic stack to one of the first council flats. In Cruickshank's pages, classical influences from Rome and Greece give way to the revival of…

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Arc Raiders Review – Pure multiplayer fun | games

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,PC,Xbox series S/X,PlayStation 5,Culture,Shooting games 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ARC Raiders is a shooter from Embark Studios - so, it's a game where you spread out in a map full of other players and do as much shooting and looting as possible before escaping. This is my first real experience in this genre, and it's excellent. It features smooth and only occasionally exhausting combat, properly brain-scratching sound design and truly terrifying robotic enemies. It satisfies my constant need to sift through my inventory and the gun in…

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TV tonight: Dennis Kelly’s brilliant new prison drama | TV and radio

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Waiting to go out9.30pm on BBC OneJosh Finnan is one of the best new talents, with hit shows like Say Nothing and The Responder. He takes the lead role in this fascinating new drama as Dan, a philosopher who for the first time teaches the men in prison. But this brings up Dan's past traumas, specifically his unresolved business with his violent father. Based on Andy West's memoir and written by Dennis Kelly (Pulling, Together), the interactions in the…

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Poem of the Week: The Man in the Wind by Anne Stevenson | hair

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💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Poetry,Books,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The man in the windThe man is blown awayWhich keeps us awake tonightNot the Black Wind Monkshrinks into nooks and crannies,Or the white face under the streetlightStricken with the guilt of his noise,Or the hand of the great windHit and hit the rainy alleysWhile the executioner continues the investigationAnd the prisoner's loud voiceIt bleeds over the cymbals and drums.He listens.His dream is the windIt is anger that controls his mindAnd he wears his skin.His cry is not what the wind saysBut the…

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