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TV TONIGHT: Kayla Harris’s hit comedy about best friends returns | television

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: We may regret this10pm on BBC TwoWelcome back to this great comedy from Kayla Harris and Lee Getty. Freya (Harris) is now somewhat reluctantly engaged – but she misses her best friend/BA Jo (Elena Sorel) and filming disability awareness ads doesn't quite meet her artistic needs. Then there are her agents who want her to meet a designer who only wants to design a wedding dress for a wheelchair user... Holly RichardsonCelebrity languageAt 7.30pm on ITV1Big names compete for…

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Bird Grove Review – The True Story of George Eliot Embellished in a Subtle Drama | stage

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,George Eliot,Hampstead theatre,Books 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: THis play is about George Eliot when she was known only as Mary Anne Evans, in her twenties and living in a respectable corner of Coventry in the 1840s with her father. Played by Elizabeth Dulau, she is not yet the unconventional woman she will become.Later, Evans scandalizes high society to the point that her pushy father, Robert (Owen Teale), is desperate to please, not least so that he can secure a decent marriage for this intelligent, spirited daughter. Evans…

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Review of “The Sucking Fish” by Ashani Lewis – The Trials of Having a Difficult Mother | books

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Fiction,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen it comes to attempted suicide, Kolya's mother is a "repeat offender." Lalita, a human rights lawyer about to be disbarred, craves the attention of her now adult daughter with such ferocity that, when denied, she throws herself into the river, lies down in the middle of the road or drinks cleaning fluid. “She told me it was my fault,” says Kolya, now in her 20s and teaching upscale children in London while hoping to go to art college. “I only did…

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God of Frogs Review – Less Kermit, More A Giant Shape-Shifting Amphibian Nightmare | film

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Horror films,Amphibians,Culture,Environment 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThere is a long-discredited theory known as “ontogenesis recapitulates phylogeny” which posits that the development of an organism in the womb or egg (i.e. embryogenesis) reenacts the evolution of its species (phylogeny). In other words, it is a theory developed to explain how organisms start out in a single cell, eventually look like newts, wombats, or other genetic descendants, and then finally reach their final form for their species, whether platypus, snake, or human.That might be a vague way of saying…

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Anlife: What does the Extraordinary Evolution Simulator say about artificial intelligence? | games

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✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Culture,PC,AI (artificial intelligence) 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A A strange piece of software recently arrived on the PC game store Steam. "Software" seems to be the cleanest way to describe it. Existing somewhere between a full-fledged life simulator, a science project, and some kind of haunted aquarium, Anlife: Anlife: Motion-learning Life Evolution might have disappeared without much impact if not for one unusual factor. Several years ago, some of its creators were captured on camera by one of the true legends of Japanese animation.In 2016, Hayao…

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Molly vs. the Machines review – A powerful story about love, loss, and the dangers of social media | film

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Social media,Meta,Culture,Digital media,Media,Technology,Mental health,Depression,Instagram,Pinterest 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: MOllie Russell was 14 years old when she took her own life in 2017 after months of viewing content related to self-harm and suicide on social media. Nearly a decade later, her best friends from school, interviewed for this documentary, are articulate, impressive women in their early twenties. Watching them, you can't help but be shocked all over again by the terrible tragedy of Molly's death and the loss of her family, who will never see the…

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Zero Line: Inside the Russian War Review – Shocking Testimony from an Army Turning in on Itself | television

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Documentary,Factual TV,Russia,Ukraine 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn the dying days of the Soviet Union, there was much talk about the “Afghan syndrome” within Russia. Thousands of veterans of the ill-fated war in Afghanistan were shocked, angry and denied any kind of aftercare. A mass epidemic of untreated PTSD has hit the streets. After watching this chilling documentary, it's hard not to conclude that the country's experience in the late 1980s in the aftermath of the conflict may have been just a test of what…

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The Dyers’ Caravan Park review – This lazy and shameful show does nothing to help the real people involved | Danny Dyer

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✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Danny Dyer,Television & radio,Culture,Television 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: toLove him or hate him – I love him – Danny Dyer rarely puts a foot wrong. The grotesque “act” is an act only insofar as all celebrities are an act; He's a more than competent actor and has made some decent documentaries (especially his most recent film about modern masculinity). However, the Dyers Caravan Park is a pile of rubbish.Setup is very simple. Danny loves caravan parks. He spent many happy holidays in his youth, surrounded by…

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Temple of prosperity! Why religious sites in Taiwan have become unlikely places of celebration | Club culture

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Club culture,Dance music,Taiwan,Clubbing,Music,Culture,Reggae,Pop and rock,Asia Pacific,World news,Music festivals,Festivals,Buddhism,Religion ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen Andrew Dawson brought a sound system to Bujie Temple in Tainan, Taiwan, to celebrate the Lunar New Year, his gods were watching. Behind the stack of plywood speakers is a circular plaque of Caixin, the Chinese god of prosperity. Close to the Dubbing and Reggae Street party, families burn long incense sticks to the site's patron religious figure, the thousand-year-old Chifu Wangi, a prince who died sampling well water poisoned by the plague gods…

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Eliane Radegui, French composer and music legend, dies at the age of 94. Music

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Experimental music,Culture,Steve Reich,Philip Glass,France,Europe 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: French composer W Concrete music Major Eliane Radigi has died at the age of 94.“It is with great sadness that we learn of the death of Eliane Radiguet at the age of 94,” the Paris-based experimental music center INA GRM posted on Instagram. “A prominent figure in musical creativity has left us.”Born in Paris in 1932, Radegui learned to play the piano as a child, but heard the electro-acoustic compositions of Concrete music On radio in the early 1950s,…

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