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🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Hamnet,Film adaptations,Maggie O'Farrell,Chloé Zhao,Paul Mescal,Jessie Buckley,Hamlet,William Shakespeare,Emily Watson,Books,Culture,Stage 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 'T“The joys of parents are secret, as are their sorrows and fears...” This is Francis Bacon’s essay on Fathers and Children; They were probably more secretive in his day than in ours. This kind of secrecy and revelation is part of Chloe Zhao's deeply romantic imagination about the origin of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. He locates the beginning of the play in the imagined suffering of Shakespeare and his wife Agnes (or Anne) Hathaway at…

💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Philosophy books,Books,Culture,Society books,Education,Economics ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TTwo years ago, I started learning Japanese on Duolingo. At first, the daily accumulation of vocabulary was fun. Each lesson earned me experience points – a small reward that measured and reinforced my progress.But something strange happened. Over time, my focus shifted. As I climbed the weekly leaderboards, I found myself favoring the lessons that delivered the most points with the least effort. Things came to a head when I spent an entire vacation glued to my phone, repeating the…

🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Millionaire hot seatAt 7.30pm on ITV1A fast-paced spin-off isn't exactly necessary for the popular game show. Simply put: Each question must be answered within 15 seconds by whichever of the episode's six contestants is in the hot seat. There are more specific rules that are best explained by host Jeremy Clarkson during the first match speed-up. Holly RichardsonAustralia Rick Stein7pm on BBC TwoThe chef has a deep-rooted connection with Australia – when he was 19, after his father died, he…

🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Katherine Ryan,Culture,Television,Stage,Television & radio,Comedy ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 'anyEspecially in this country, I think you need me. You didn't realize it but you needed me, to remove some of your shame. Katherine Ryan, the 42-year-old Canadian comedian who has been based in the UK for nearly 20 years, brought her new fourth child, Holland, to the Guardian offices, the baby lying in a little nest on the table. Ryan had her breast pump out so it wouldn't make an annoying noise, but I didn't notice the noise,…

💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture Latest 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,Blind Faith 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Father Mike Schmitz A Catholic priest and podcaster addressed his congregation, which has more than 1.2 million subscribers on YouTube, last November with an unusual kind of sermon. You can't always trust the words that come out of his mouth, because sometimes they weren't really his words, or his mouth, Schmitz said. Schmitz became the target of AI-generated impersonation scams.“You are being watched by a demonic human being,” the fake Schmitz said in one video that the real Schmitz, who…

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture Latest 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / TV,Television ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Marks says this choice is also based on his firm belief that storytelling is an evolving game between audience and filmmakers. The audience predicts how the story will develop, and the creator attempts to defy expectations.“How can we surprise the audience from the first episode?” says Marks. “We discussed this thoroughly in the writers room.”A scene from the first season Shogun. Courtesy of Disney. Forex networksThe "game" in the first season was an emotionally charged structure that made you want to…

🚀 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Photography,Art and design,Music,Pop and rock,Culture,US news,Manchester,Magazines ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: My friend Brian Smith, who has died aged 82, played a role in the British blues boom in the 1960s. His photographs of American artists have appeared on album and magazine covers, and later on CDs and box sets. He created iconic images of Howlin' Wolf, T Bone Walker, Sonny Boy Williamson, Chuck Berry, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins.While still at school, Brian saw Lonnie Donegan's Skiffle Band play as an act at a Chris Barber gig at…

✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,2026 culture preview,Theatre,Dance,Ballet,Comedy,Culture,Michael Sheen,Cynthia Erivo,Arthur Miller,Lesley Manville,Aidan Turner,Kenneth Branagh,Northern Ballet,Hofesh Shechter,Rambert,Bridget Christie,John Kearns,James Acaster,Phil Wang,Comedy 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: stageOur cityThe Welsh National Theater's inaugural outing brings Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about everyday life in a fictional American town to Wales. This touring production stars Michael Sheen as the drama's central character, a stage manager, with Russell T Davies contributing as creative assistant. Swansea Grand Theatre, January 16-31. Then touringA grain of sandPerformed by Sarah Agha, this production reflects the war from a child's perspective,…

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,TV crime drama ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HHe's a Balliol gentleman, a gentleman in a suit as sharp as his cheekbones. He's unusually orange for a buchou, but that's because he's played by Leo Sutter, who was Harald Hardrada in Vikings: Valhalla until about 10 minutes ago, and clearly still has a protein shake to use.She's a working-class Norfolk girl ("Swaffham High, Swaffham Tech") who wears sturdy boots and a utility jacket and is in the last-chance saloon, job-wise, due to her habit of…

🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Technology,Gambling,Gambling,Australia news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Drake and American live streamer Adin Ross have been accused in a US civil case of using online casino funds to pay for automated live streams in an attempt to artificially inflate the singer's revenues and popularity on music streaming platforms. No one has been criminally charged in connection with the allegations in the lawsuit.Two women in the US state of Virginia have filed a class action lawsuit seeking $5 million from e-casino Stake.com, celebrity and another Australian online personality for…