🚀 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Stage,Theatre,Roy Keane,Mick McCarthy 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: EAnna Hardwicke can't really remember Saipan. Saipan is not the place, a small Pacific island located 200 kilometers northeast of Guam. Neither, fortunately, is the film Saipan, in which he plays the lead, and which I hope to discuss with him at length this afternoon. No, he means the Saipan incident, the Saipan event, the Saipan crisis that has baffled and angered the people of Ireland for a quarter of a century.We're sitting in a cheery, boxy conference room deep…
💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Podcasts 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Experience is everythingFormer Woman's Hour host Jenny Murray gives a sweet look at the celebrity interview podcast. Her Saga series of magazines exclusively features older people talking about the life lessons they've learned so far. Paul Merton is rather outspoken when it comes to mental health and Ian Hislop ("Is he as nice as he seems? He's prettier..."), with Tony Blackburn and Trevor McDonald also making appearances this season. Hannah J. DavisWidely available, bi-weekly episodesOwn my lifeWomen who have been…
✨ 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…
💥 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…
✨ 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."…
🔥 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,…
🔥 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…
🚀 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…
✨ 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…
✨ 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…
