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Sleaford Mods Goes Metal Detecting: Best Podcasts of the Week | TV and radio

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Podcasts 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Choose the weekDo I discover a problem?In this unconventional interview show, producer and host James Deacon wanders through the greenery with a celebrity, as they try to spot metals and have an intimate conversation with themed questions ("What's the only piece of gold you've ever found?"). Sleaford Mods frontman Jason Williamson is the first guest for an hour of meditation and searching for rusty nails. It works best as a visual podcast rather than an audio one. Alexey Duggins Widely…

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TV Tonight: The Targaryens arrive in the Game of Thrones prequel | TV and radio

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Game of Thrones,Television ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Knight of the Seven Kingdoms9pm, Sky AtlanticThe action-packed Game of Thrones prequel is all set for action as Ser Duncan (former Irish rugby player Peter Claffey) seeks knighthood in order to enter the tournament, accompanied by new Squire Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell). When the Targaryens arrive, Duncan takes the opportunity to ask for their help. But is the existence of the Dragonfire bloodline about to set events on a new course? Holly RichardsonClive Merry's African AdventureAt 6.30pm on…

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BBCSO/BBC Singers/Brabbins: UnEarth review – Wolfe faces the climate crisis head-on | classical music

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Music,Culture,Climate crisis,Barbican,BBC Symphony Orchestra ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HHow do we deal with the issue of climate breakdown in art? Doing so indirectly risks diminishing the urgency of the matter, but going too far risks being reckless or slipping into cliché. In its UK premiere, Julia Wolfe's UnEarth speech ultimately leaned towards the latter, although it left some startling impressions on the way.UnEarth is produced by Wolfe collective Bang on a Can, and premieres in 2023 in New York. Wolfe developed some of his script with…

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Wicker Review – Olivia Colman is a smelly fisherman who falls in love with a wicker man in an uneven tale | Sundance 2026

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Sundance 2026,Olivia Colman,Film,Alexander Skarsgård,Elizabeth Debicki,Peter Dinklage,Culture,Comedy films,Sundance film festival,Comedy,Festivals,Romance films ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIn terms of plotlines that demand attention, this year's Sundance has a few. There's the body horror film Saccharine, about a diet craze that involves eating human ashes, and the midnight movie Buddy, about a Barney-style children's TV star who starts killing kids, and then there's Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant, which you can probably imagine.But "wait what?" Annual. The award easily goes to the offbeat tale The Wicker, the story of a…

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The Moment review – Charli xcx struggles through devastating Summer Brat satire | Sundance 2026

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💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Sundance 2026,Charli xcx,Alexander Skarsgård,Film,Culture,Kate Berlant,Sundance film festival,Comedy films,Comedy,Festivals,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn April 2025, pop singer Charli I And it becomes my whole life, you know? She said. “I started thinking about culture, about the ebb and flow and the age of things...” She admitted that over-saturation is risky, and that maybe she should stop, but “I'm also interested in the tension of staying in too long. I find that very fascinating.”The frank, casual confession befits Pratt, a pop-culture-changing album that channels, in startling immediacy,…

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Josephine Review – Channing Tatum is a slam dunk in the shattering drama of lost innocence | Sundance 2026

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Sundance 2026,Sundance film festival,Channing Tatum,Drama films,Film,Culture,Festivals,Gemma Chan 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: COsephine, the titular character of Péth de Araujo's stunning second film, is eight years old. Played by equally accomplished newcomer Mason Reeves, Josephine loves to play soccer with her father, Damien (a formidable Channing Tatum), with whom she grows close—the film's crisp, almost wordless opening minutes, which shift seamlessly from Josephine's perspective to a third-party co-conspirator, as she jogs with the duo through San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, quickly convey a tender, playful bond: a supportive,…

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‘People can be cruel – I learned that early’: US pop star Madison Beer on child fame and fan attacks | music

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✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Pop and rock,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: MAddison Beer may only be 26 years old, but she's a veteran of the pop industry. She began her career when she was 13, after Justin Bieber tweeted a link to a YouTube video of her covering Etta James' "At Last," and has spent more than a decade toiling in mainstream pop music, amassing a massive Gen Z fanbase in the process — including more than 60 million followers between Instagram and TikTok. It's no exaggeration to say that her…

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‘I Don’t Tell People I Like the Spice Girls’: Mo Gilligan’s Honest Playlist | Mo Gilligan

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💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Mo Gilligan,Music,Comedy 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: First song I boughtSubtraction (practical) by Ludacris from HMV in Lewisham Shopping Centre. I played it over and over again.The first song I fell in love with I grew up listening to a lot of reggae music – my dad was Rastafarian – so Get Up, Stand Up by Bob Marley was always playing in the house when my mom was doing the housework. Ironically, it's a song about redemption when you're asked to clean house.The song I play at karaoke…

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TV Tonight: The Internet’s Favorite Train Controller Takes a Space Adventure | TV and radio

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Mission into Space with Francis Bourgeois6.50pm on Channel 4Can a train controller become an astronaut? You can't help but root for train lover Francis Bourgeois as he makes this his mission. Fortunately, he had help from British astronaut Tim Peake, who happily helped him get to NASA's Space Center in Houston, Texas to fulfill his childhood dream of launching into orbit. It's a surprisingly moving film in two parts - and somehow, watching Bourgeois use a sick bag in…

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Age verification is reaching a global tipping point. Is the TikTok strategy a good compromise?

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture Latest 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Culture News,ID Check ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Governments around the world are Move to limit children's access to social media as lawmakers question whether platforms are able to enforce their own minimum age requirements. TikTok recently became the latest tech giant to succumb to regulatory pressure when it announced it would implement a new age disclosure system across Europe to better keep under-13s off the platform.The system, which follows a year-long pilot in the UK aimed at proactively identifying and removing underage users, relies on a combination…

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