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BBC broadcaster Edward Stourton dies at the age of 68 | BBC

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: BBC,Ed Stourton,Media,UK news,The news on TV,Television,Television & radio,Culture,Radio 4,Radio industry 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Journalist Edward Stourton has died at the age of 68.The BBC Radio 4 presenter is best known for presenting current affairs programs including Today, World at One and the Sunday Religious and Moral Affairs series.The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said in a statement that the man died on Saturday surrounded by his family after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2014.Former colleagues praised a man they described as an outstanding broadcaster.Jonathan Munro, who…

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‘Being an American feels helpless and scary’: Actor Ben Platt talks nerves, weird songs and why he can’t do it without his husband | stage

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Musicals,Film,Menier Chocolate Factory,LGBTQ+ rights,Culture,Stage,Stephen Sondheim 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn performance, Ben Platt is a suave singer and loose-limbed dancer, with a vague background note of nervous New York. The stage — most famously, as the star of Dear Evan Hansen — is his safe place. In person, in the south London training room, he was suave, serious and nervous. He crosses his legs and arms around him. Chat wanders widely, body language tense.Platt speaks frankly about anxiety, as if it were his constant companion. So, how…

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Shania Twain: Little Miss Twain Review – Radical Revival Steps Off the Dirt Track to the Middle of the Road | Shania Twain

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💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Shania Twain,Music,Culture,Country,Pop and rock ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 'W“When I was a kid, I started out on stages just like this,” Shania Twain told 200 fans packed into a London pub last June, tracking her seventh album, Little Miss Twain. A reintroduction to the Canadian country legend, the record mines memories of her childhood in Ontario for hints of the arena-filling star she would soon become.Artwork by Little Queen Twain. Photo: Publicity photoOver a mournful Mellotron and pedal steel, the title track marvels at how little Elaine,…

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Chris Packham Takes on a Terrifying Crime Gang: This Week’s Best Podcasts | TV and radio

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Podcasts 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Choose the weekBuried: dead rabbitMutilated pheasants, mutilated foxes and crying babies: the third series of the award-winning environmental crime show begins with a huge pile of murdered animals outside a primary school. The investigation leads to exposure of the world of illegal blood sports and rural organized crime. She's even recruiting Chris Packham. “It's low-level terrorism, isn't it?” he exclaimed at one point — and it's hard to disagree. Listening is essential. Alexei DugginsBBC Sounds, all episodes availableSufi companionsSecretly curious…

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TV Tonight: A Serial Killer’s Sick Twist in The Dark | television

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Chris Packham,TV crime drama,Documentary ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Darkness9pm on ITV1With the serial killer taking his third victim in the latest cliffhanger, it's been a tough week at work for DI Kennedy (Laura Donnelly) in this sinister police drama. Local men in their teens and twenties are the targets, and Kennedy thinks she knows who will be next – but will she save him? Or is she just playing the killer's sick, twisted game? What about her troubling domestic dilemma with her daughter? Holly RichardsonThere's…

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‘There was never a chance I could be a child’: a new exhibition explores how war shapes children’s lives | children

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Children,Museums,Culture,Society,Holocaust,Second world war 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: When John Hajdu was three years old, his parents gave him a teddy bear small enough to fit in his hands: 86 years later, the teddy bears are the only thing left of his childhood.The bear, which the 89-year-old simply calls “Teddy”, stayed with him when his father was taken to a labor camp and his mother was sent to a concentration camp, and hid in a non-Jewish neighbour’s closet before being forced into the Budapest ghetto.From 31 July,…

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“What did the BBC do for me?” Romesh Ranganathan replays the company’s license fee application 1985 | BBC license fee

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: BBC licence fee,BBC,Television industry,Media,Television,Romesh Ranganathan,Matt Brittin,UK news,Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: John Cleese's 1985 BBC ad in which he asks a star-studded bar "What has the BBC ever given us?" One of the most famous examples of a company suing the public is the amount of licensing fees paid.In the ad, Cleese complains to a waiter that he just bought his TV license. "Fifty-eight pounds for the privilege of sitting in your house and watching your TV. It's diabolical. I mean, what did the BBC…

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World Cup final: Trump, half-time show and everything but the football – live | World Cup 2026

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🚀 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: World Cup 2026,World Cup,Sport,Shakira,Madonna,Music,Culture,BTS,Fifa,Donald Trump 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Key eventsAs things stand, Cape Verde have scored more goals against Argentina than Spain and England combined.ShareThe hafltime show lasted just over 27 minutes. So we’ll have seen Animal drumming for almost as long as we’ll watch extra time. I know that’s incredibly strained but I’m killing time until Trump grabs the trophy at the presentation ceremony and runs away laughing.ShareWe’re going to extra time: you can follow the final 30 minutes (or so) of this World Cup…

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‘An overnight success after 25 years? Delicious’: Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham on sexism, stunts and stardom at 51 | Hannah Waddingham

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Hannah Waddingham,Television & radio,Culture,Game of Thrones,Film ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Hannah Waddingham clears her throat. Her voice is a little scratchy. Two days before we meet, the star of Ted Lasso hosted the TV comedy show Saturday Night Live UK. She took part in almost all of the sketches that night, from a skit about “two top-heavy, Reading-based drama teachers” called Janet, to a musical number about how many glasses of wine to drink at a bar, to a bit in which she played the stern…

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‘In the Wild’ Inspired My Adventurous Life – But I Learned the Wrong Lessons About Freedom | culture

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIt's 5.30am, and I'm waking up on a slab of granite overlooking the Doomland Wilderness, where there's nothing but forest, stone and silence for miles. I spent 44 days hiking the Pacific Crest Trail—a nearly 2,650-mile trek from the Mexican border to Canada through desert lands, pine forests, deep canyons, volcanic terrain, and alpine mountains. Every day, I walk about 20 miles and carry on my back everything I need for the next four months.I was 16 when I first saw Into…

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