π Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Zoe Ball,Television & radio,Culture,Radio 2,BBC,Media,Radio industry,UK news π‘ Key idea: Zoe Ball has announced that she will be leaving her role as presenter of her BBC Radio 2 show.Speaking on the programme, the 55-year-old said she would be replaced by presenter Emma Willis. Paul will present her last program next Saturday and will continue to present special programs on the station.βI loved being among my dear friends Romesh [Ranganathan] And Rylan [Clark]"You know, I love you all, but I don't just disappear," she said.βObviously it's going to…
π Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Culture,Music,Stage,Dance,Theatre,Film,Television,Television & radio,Art,Art and design,Games π‘ Main takeaway: Exit: cinemaEleanor the GreatOut nowJune Squibb stars in Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut, which premiered at Cannes, and tells the story of Eleanor, a senior citizen recently moved to New York, who befriends a 19-year-old β and then stumbles her way into pretending to be a Holocaust survivor.LurkingOut nowA hit at Sundance, the story of an unassuming retail employee who happens to befriend a rising pop star becomes a Boswell for Johnson, if Boswell were part of the pop star's…
π₯ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Television & radio,TV streaming,Emily in Paris,Culture,Stranger Things,Ethan Hawke β
Hereβs what youβll 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 β 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…
β¨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Television & radio,Culture,Peep Show,The Great British Bake Off,Television π 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…
β¨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Drama,Factual TV,Entertainment TV,Documentary π‘ Main takeaway: DramaStuffedDrama pickAn hour of capers and heartfelt moments β¦ Stuffed. Photograph: Janne-Pekka Manninen/BBC/Baby Cow/When cash-strapped Arslan (Guz Khan) gets an Β£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 familyβs new holiday friend, Lily. Hollie Richardson Tuesday…
π Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Culture π‘ Hereβs what youβll 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…
π₯ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Books,Culture,Fiction,Poetry,Christmas,Robert Macfarlane,Elif Shafak,Colm TΓ³ibΓn,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 π‘ Main takeaway: I love giving books as presents. I rarely give anything else. I strongly approve of the Icelandic tradition of the JΓ³labΓ³kaflΓ³Γ°iΓ° (Yule book flood), whereby books are given (and, crucially, read) on Christmas Eve. NanΒ Shepherdβs The Living Mountain is the one Iβve given more often than any other; so much so that I keep a stack of four or five to…
β¨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Classical music,Culture,Music,Television,Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Paul Bettany,Sky Atlantic,Television & radio π‘ Key idea: FForty years ago, Amadeus won eight Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and four Golden Globe Awards β 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 β the first…
π Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Theatre,Musicals,Stephen Sondheim,Bridge theatre,Stage,Culture,Fairytales,Books,Tom Scutt β
Hereβs what youβll 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…
π₯ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Dick Van Dyke,Film,Culture,Mary Poppins,Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,Television,Julie Andrews β
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…
