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TV tonight: Dennis Kelly’s brilliant new prison drama | TV and radio

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Waiting to go out9.30pm on BBC OneJosh Finnan is one of the best new talents, with hit shows like Say Nothing and The Responder. He takes the lead role in this fascinating new drama as Dan, a philosopher who for the first time teaches the men in prison. But this brings up Dan's past traumas, specifically his unresolved business with his violent father. Based on Andy West's memoir and written by Dennis Kelly (Pulling, Together), the interactions in the…

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Poem of the Week: The Man in the Wind by Anne Stevenson | hair

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💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Poetry,Books,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The man in the windThe man is blown awayWhich keeps us awake tonightNot the Black Wind Monkshrinks into nooks and crannies,Or the white face under the streetlightStricken with the guilt of his noise,Or the hand of the great windHit and hit the rainy alleysWhile the executioner continues the investigationAnd the prisoner's loud voiceIt bleeds over the cymbals and drums.He listens.His dream is the windIt is anger that controls his mindAnd he wears his skin.His cry is not what the wind saysBut the…

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Andy Zalzman: “Aristophanes is a complete comedy: political satire, slapstick, and silly jokes” | platform

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Culture,Comedy,Comedy,Sport ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: How did you get into the world of comedy?A little by accident. I had tried stand-up in my final year at university, and then played three open mic gigs at the Edinburgh Festival, which provided strong evidence that I should give up. So I did. Eighteen months later, after a vague plan to try to get into sports journalism ended in me sub-editing articles on stock markets for a business publishing company (even less exciting than you might think), I booked…

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Susie Figes obituary | film

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Film industry,Culture,Harry Potter ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Susie Figgis, who has died of cancer aged 77, was one of Britain's most respected casting directors, setting young actors such as Greta Scacchi, Cathy Tyson, Jodie May and Emily Woof on the path to stardom.Her inspired suggestions to film directors also included casting Ben Kingsley in the role of Gandhi (1982), helping to bring Richard Attenborough's dream project to life, and having Terence Stamp play the devil driving a cream Rolls-Royce in The Company of Wolves (1984), Angela Carter's…

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Bawdy Beryl, slick Seurat, titanic Tracey and the glory of Gaudí: the best art shows and architecture in 2026 | Art and design

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,2026 culture preview,Art,Architecture,Exhibitions ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: ArtBeryl Cook: Pride and JoyFor her centenary year, The Box presents the largest ever show of self-taught painter Beryl Cook. Her work may not be great art, but it is a bawdy slice of Plymouth and postwar British life. An unlikely pairing with Tom of Finland, at Studio Voltaire in 2024, recast Cook’s reputation as a queer ally. There will be drinking and smoking and ogling and people getting up to all sorts. Adrian Searle The Box, Plymouth,…

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MasterChef Festive Extravaganza: Champion of Champions Review – John Torode Finally Leaves the Kitchen | Master Chef

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: MasterChef,Food TV,Television,Culture,Television & radio 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: SS. Farewell then, John Torode. You have been a co-presenter of MasterChef and Celebrity MasterChef. Until it wasn't. But first, and last, there's this: the second of two festive specials in which we watch the Australian stare at potatoes while pretending we don't know The BBC chose not to renew his contract in July after upholding the allegation against him of using a "deeply offensive racist term". (Turode denies the allegations and claims he has "no recollection" of the…

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‘Move fast, break things’: How tech bros became Hollywood villains in 2025 | film

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Elon Musk,Technology,AI (artificial intelligence) 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: forBetween the meme-led reboot of the US government and the continued push for AI by venture capital-backed blowhards, 2025 seemed like the height of hateful technology, bro. It's also fitting that jargon-speaking, self-interested digital visionaries have become Hollywood's favorite villains this year in everything from blockbusters to parodies. Think of the overworked props departments tasked with mocking fake Forbes covers heralding another smiling white man as "Mr. Metaverse" or whatever.With such saturation in the market, the danger is that…

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South Park writer buys ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ domain name | Donald Trump

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✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump,Washington DC,South Park,US news,World news,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Donald Trump may be remaking the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts into a collection of his own self-reflections, but the writer on South Park, the TV series that reflects the administration's obsessions and predilections better than any political pundit, has bought the rights to trumpkennedycenter.org.Toby Morton, a writer and television producer who worked on the long-running and disgraced sitcom, said he bought the domain in August after predicting that the president would change the…

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George Clooney responds to Trump after the US President mocked his French nationality George Clooney

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✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: George Clooney,France,US news,Europe,World news,Film,Culture,Donald Trump,US politics 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: George Clooney has criticized US President Donald Trump for criticizing France's decision to grant the Hollywood actor and his family French citizenship.The 64-year-old Oscar winner, his wife Amal Alamuddin Clooney, and their two children became French citizens earlier this month after living on an estate in the south of France for years.Clooney praised French privacy laws that kept his family largely protected from international media intrusions, as well as giving him the opportunity to raise his children…

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More than 60 works of art by Henri Matisse have been donated to the Museum of Modern Art in Paris Henri Matisse

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✨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Henri Matisse,Paris,France,Museums,Culture,Art and design,Europe,Painting,Drawing 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The Museum of Modern Art in Paris has received an “extremely generous” donation of 61 Henri Matisse artworks held by the artist’s family.Most of the donated artworks – which include paintings, drawings, engravings, lithographs and sculpture – depict the painter's daughter Margaret.The donation, which the museum described as exceptional and historic, was made by Barbara Dauphine Douthwaite, the wife of Matisse's grandson, Claude, who died in 2011 in New York.Marguerite Au Pijoire, 1920. Photography: Jean-Louis Luci/Museum of Modern Art,…

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