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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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Into the Woods review – The Brothers Grimm exquisitely mashed up by Sondheim | stage

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,Musicals,Stephen Sondheim,Bridge theatre,Stage,Culture,Fairytales,Books,Tom Scutt ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: CDoes the always imaginative Brothers Grimm mash-up of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine disappoint, when his book is so clever and driven by the most wonderful (if difficult) music? Jordan Finn's production sparkles and sparkles with all the humor and pathos of these wayward fairytale characters having a misadventure in the woods, their rearranged stories wrapping around each other.The show starts with brisk efficiency, racing along with some early songs, but it packs in the emotion and…

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Flexible limbs, fantasy accents, and crackling sexual chemistry: Dick Van Dyke turns 100 | Dick Van Dyke

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💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Dick Van Dyke,Film,Culture,Mary Poppins,Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,Television,Julie Andrews ✅ Main takeaway: AAll Hollywood stars grow old and die, except perhaps for one of them - Dick Van Dyke - who turns 100 today. The real world Peter Pan who used to stumble upon the ottoman on The Dick Van Dyke Show is still standing. The man who impersonated the wind-up toy in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang hasn't given up yet. He has outlived mentors, co-stars, romantic partners, and many studios. He has outlived the jokes about…

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TV tonight: Who will reach the Strictly Come Dancing final? | TV and radio

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television & radio,Culture ✅ Main takeaway: Strictly Come Dancing6.35pm, BBC OneStrictly semi-final! After Katja and Louis' surprise exit, the shiny ball is up for grabs. But that's not all: next Saturday's final will be a bittersweet moment as Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly ditch the fake tan and sequins and say goodbye to the show they have presented for so many years - but they will return to host the special at 5.30pm on Christmas Day. Holly Richardson Jingle Bell Ball in DC 20254.50pm on ITV1Belle jingle!…

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‘Master of Complications’: Felicity Kendall returns to Tom Stoppard’s India Ink after three decades | stage

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,Tom Stoppard,Felicity Kendal,Hampstead theatre,Culture,Stage ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: I I promise I won't point to Felicity Kendall as Tom Stoppard's muse. “No,” she says firmly. "Not this week." Speaking to Stoppard's former partner and longtime leading lady is a sensitive matter in the immediate aftermath of the writer's death. But she's previewing the revival of his Indian ink, so it sparkles during the conversation. The way Kendall refers to Stoppard in the present tense tells her poignant story.Sitting on a squishy brown sofa at the…

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