🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Television 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: beauty8pm on ITV1 Who knows why some detective shows persist and others don't? Being simple, a little dated, and without any distinctive features, did not prevent this John Simm vehicle, set in and around Brighton, from staying on for a sixth season. The first episode is an unnecessary ITV crime drama crossover, featuring Grantchester's Rishi Nair as the husband of a woman who has disappeared, for reasons that are initially unclear. CAccelGreat celebrities are preparing to stand up to cancer7.40pm…
💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Comedy,Stage,Comedy,Culture,Bristol Old Vic,William Shakespeare ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A A classic actor who appeared in a recent production of Othello told me that the cast was so disturbed by the murders that on many nights he was met with explosions of laughter. This may be because audiences saw the Reduced Shakespeare Company's 1987 staging of The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) during its extended West End runs or world tours. Or other examples of the 'sculpted poet' trend initiated by RSC founder Adam Long, including Spymonkey's The…
🚀 Explore this insightful post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Some scholars have argued that Marcel Duchamp's Inverted Urinal, titled The Fountain and signed "R Mutt," was also her work. Irene Gammell in Baroness Elsa (2002) cites a 1917 letter Duchamp sent to his sister Suzanne, in which he wrote: “One of my friends, under the masculine pseudonym Richard Mott, sent me a porcelain urinal as a sculpture.” "While definitive proof of the Baroness's involvement may be missing, there is a great deal of circumstantial evidence pointing to her artistic imprint," Gammell asserts.Margaret Keane(Credit: Margaret…
🔥 Read this awesome post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Half Man premieres April 23 on HBO and HBO Max in the US and April 24 on BBC iPlayer in the UK.Apple TV+(Credit: Apple TV+)11. Widow's BayMatthew Rhys (The Americans, The Beast in Me) shows off his deft comic timing in this horror spoof, in which he plays Tom Loftis, the mayor of Widow's Bay, a small island town in New England. He hopes to make the community, which has cute spots like a restaurant called The Salty Whale, a tourist destination even though locals…
💥 Read this trending post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 5. SoundtrackThe series' soundtrack was nothing short of a total hit for viewers. GQ rightly called it "the best '90s mixtape on television."Stretching from 90s club tracks from the likes of CeCe Peniston and En Vogue to more personal and ethereal tracks from the Cocteau Twins and Björk, they immersed viewers in the energy and creativity of the time. And while it's unlikely the pair actually danced in their underwear to Pulp's Common People — as in one scene — viewers noticed how well the…
🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Rebecca Solnit,Books,Culture,Politics books,US politics,Society,Feminism,The far right,Environment,Race,Climate crisis,Protest (US) 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When I speak to Rebecca Solnit, she is beaming, and I can’t immediately figure out why. Her new book, The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change, blasts in with a pragmatic positivity, it’s true. She writes with a “pull yourself together, don’t even think about despair” tone. But that’s not why she’s smiling – it’s because Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor just got arrested. “Why is the UK doing these things the US…
💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Drama films,Sweden,Period and historical films,Culture,Europe,World news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: DEnis Lavant is an interesting and vulnerable presence, somewhere between Quasimodo and Nosferatu, in this beautifully shot monochrome film by Swedish artist, photographer and filmmaker John Skoog, developed from a short film and installation project.Lavant plays farmer Karl-Göran Persson, who is in remote southern Sweden in what could have been the 1950s or 1960s, motivated by an official pamphlet distributed to the public telling them what to do in the event of a nuclear war; He becomes…
✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Ivor Novello awards,Music,Awards and prizes,Culture,Olivia Dean,Wolf Alice,Self Esteem,Kae Tempest 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Olivia Dean, Wolf Alice's Ellie Russell, Jacob Allon, Self Esteem and Kay Tempest lead this year's Ivor Novello Awards for Excellence in British and Irish Songwriting, with two nominations each. Self Esteem co-writer Johann Hugo and Tempest's Fraser T Smith are also credited among the pioneering works.Tempest himself will compete in the Best Contemporary Song category, with two nominations: one for "I Stand on the Line," which he wrote with Smith, and another for…
🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Robyn,Music,Pop and rock,Culture,Electronic music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TA self-proclaimed Fembot who always pushes people's buttons. Robyn may be famous for bringing raw emotion to the dance floor, but her pop songs about desire and desperation are often accompanied by social media commentary: “Plug me in and flip some switches,” she once joked, pretending to be a sexy cyborg with a bloody beating heart. So it's no surprise to find the Swedish star wearing a lab coat on Dopamine, her first single in seven years. The…
✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Captive Audience: A True American Horror Story9.45pm, BBC2A fascinating and depressing story where true crime begets content, which in turn begets more serious true crime. When seven-year-old Steven Steiner disappeared in 1972, the search for him sparked a media frenzy. However, when he returned, it sparked something terrifying in his brother Cary, who claimed to have been neglected in favor of Stephen and became notorious in his own right. Phil HarrisonEnthronement of the Archbishop of CanterburyAt 2.30pm on BBC OneThis…
