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Lurking for Our Girls: Week of Enthusiastic Reviews | culture

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music ✅ Main takeaway: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...Our Girls: Southport FamiliesBBC iPlayerSummarize in a sentence A deeply moving documentary that celebrates the lives of the three girls killed in an attack on their dance class last year - and follows the powerful way their parents coped with the tragedy.What our reviewer said “There have never been children quite like these three, and it is an honor to get to know them a little through home movies and words from their parents.” Jack SealeRead the…

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LSO/Pappano Review – Musgrave’s Phoenix Rising and Vaughan Williams’ London Stir the Soul | London Symphony Orchestra

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: London Symphony Orchestra,Music,Culture,Antonio Pappano,Classical music,Barbican ✅ Key idea: AAntonio Pappano's evangelical embrace of British music continued apace with a concert that included a rare piece by Thea Musgrave, a strangely neglected Viola Concerto by William Walton, and the latest in Vaughan Williams' ongoing cycle, the evocative London Symphony.Musgrave, who is still composing at 97, wrote Phoenix Rising in 1997 for the late Andrew Davis, to whom Pappano dedicated this concert. A 23-minute rollercoaster that pits the black drummer and his stick-wielding allies against the devil's horn player…

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Zoe Ball is leaving her role as presenter of her BBC Radio 2 show Zoe Ball

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Zoe Ball,Television & radio,Culture,Radio 2,BBC,Media,Radio industry,UK news 💡 Key idea: Zoe Ball has announced that she will be leaving her role as presenter of her BBC Radio 2 show.Speaking on the programme, the 55-year-old said she would be replaced by presenter Emma Willis. Paul will present her last program next Saturday and will continue to present special programs on the station.“I loved being among my dear friends Romesh [Ranganathan] And Rylan [Clark]"You know, I love you all, but I don't just disappear," she said.“Obviously it's going to…

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From Eleanor the Great to Emily in Paris: Your complete entertainment guide for the week ahead | culture

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🚀 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Culture,Music,Stage,Dance,Theatre,Film,Television,Television & radio,Art,Art and design,Games 💡 Main takeaway: Exit: cinemaEleanor the GreatOut nowJune Squibb stars in Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut, which premiered at Cannes, and tells the story of Eleanor, a senior citizen recently moved to New York, who befriends a 19-year-old — and then stumbles her way into pretending to be a Holocaust survivor.LurkingOut nowA hit at Sundance, the story of an unassuming retail employee who happens to befriend a rising pop star becomes a Boswell for Johnson, if Boswell were part of the pop star's…

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Stranger Things to The Lowdown: The Seven Best Shows to Air This Christmas | TV and radio

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💥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television & radio,TV streaming,Emily in Paris,Culture,Stranger Things,Ethan Hawke ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Choose the weekStrange thingsThe final episodes of the Duffer brothers' smash-hit sci-fi coming-of-age fest (maybe the secret to the show's success is how many genres it manages to incorporate?) will be dropping around the holiday season — and they're huge. Fans will be up and early on Boxing Day for episodes five through seven (the finale airs on New Year's Day). Will's new powers take over, posing a major threat to Vecna. But why…

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The Great Christmas Bake Off 2025: The glorious Peep Show cast reunion is the most exciting TV event of the season | TV and radio

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television & radio,Culture,Peep Show,The Great British Bake Off,Television 📌 Key idea: peep Show is not actually a TV show. It's more of an identity now, embedded in the collective British DNA. A decade after the show ended, many of us still call each other "clean shirt," notice the logos in the foam or complain that the cracks are "weirder." The single show more emblematic of the UK's national psyche is The Great British Bake Off. So rejoice, because the best holiday collaboration is here! I call…

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Christmas unwrapped! Your bumper festive TV guide 2025 | Television

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Drama,Factual TV,Entertainment TV,Documentary 💡 Main takeaway: DramaStuffedDrama pickAn hour of capers and heartfelt moments … Stuffed. Photograph: Janne-Pekka Manninen/BBC/Baby Cow/When cash-strapped Arslan (Guz Khan) gets an £8,000 bonus, he treats his wife Hannah (Morgana Robinson), two daughters and brother-in-law Jamie (Theo Barklem-Biggs) to a magical Lapland trip. But the payment was an error. How will he pay it back? Cue an hour of capers and heartfelt family moments. Plus, Sue Johnston completes the cast as the family’s new holiday friend, Lily. Hollie Richardson Tuesday…

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My Cultural Awakening: The Lyman Trilogy Helped Me Cope with My Vision Loss | culture

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Culture 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: I I started to notice my vision deteriorating in my 40s, but just not in the way you'd expect with age. I was suffering from night blindness and blind spots in my field of vision. When I was 44, I was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic eye condition that causes retinal cells to die. I have always been a very visually oriented person: I was a practicing architect, and someone who loved to read, draw, go to the cinema and…

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‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone | Books

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Books,Culture,Fiction,Poetry,Christmas,Robert Macfarlane,Elif Shafak,Colm Tóibín,Jeanette Winterson,Michael Rosen,Katherine Rundell,Max Porter,Kamila Shamsie,Ali Smith,Diana Evans,Tessa Hadley,Nina Stibbe,Sarah Moss,Nikesh Shukla,William Boyd,Jonathan Coe,Science and nature books,Children and teenagers 💡 Main takeaway: I love giving books as presents. I rarely give anything else. I strongly approve of the Icelandic tradition of the Jólabókaflóðið (Yule book flood), whereby books are given (and, crucially, read) on Christmas Eve. Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain is the one I’ve given more often than any other; so much so that I keep a stack of four or five to…

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Amadeus returns: Can Sky’s miniseries attract a new generation to Mozart? | classical music

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✨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Classical music,Culture,Music,Television,Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Paul Bettany,Sky Atlantic,Television & radio 💡 Key idea: FForty years ago, Amadeus won eight Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and four Golden Globe Awards – and introduced a new generation to eighteenth-century music. Millions bought the soundtrack to the film Mozart, and it remains one of the best-selling classical music albums of all time, with over 6.5 million copies sold worldwide, and achieving 13 gold discs.It even inspired a new hit when Falco mixed Europop with rap in Rock Me Amadeus – the first…

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