๐ฅ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Baftas 2026,Michael B Jordan,Delroy Lindo,Race,Tourette syndrome,Film,Culture,UK news,World news,Baftas,British identity and society,Awards and prizes,Celebrity,Disability,Society,BBC,Media ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: A black British director said he would step down as a Bafta judge over the organisation's handling of the incident during a gala on Sunday, in which a Tourette's syndrome campaigner shouted a racial slur while two black actors were on stage.Sinners stars Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan were presenting the special visual effects award when John Davidson, whose life story was made into the acclaimed film I…
๐ Discover this insightful post from BBC Culture ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: The Comeback premieres March 22 on HBO and Max in the USAmazon Prime Video(Credit: Amazon Prime Video)11. TasteRiz Ahmed made his name in dramas, earning an Oscar nomination for The Sound of Metal, but he reveals his comedic side in this series he wrote and stars. He plays a struggling actor named Shah Latif, who gets an audition to play the next James Bond. The news leaks out to the public and everyone around him, especially his large Anglo-Pakistani family, and he goes wild with…
๐ฅ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Books,Culture,Retail industry,Business โ
**What Youโll Learn**: Shelley Romero has early memories of going to her local supermarket and picking fiction books off the shelves. "We were very working class; my mother would work two jobs sometimes," she recalls. โThe appeal of books being cheaper, smaller and more portable was definitely important."For generations of readers, the gateway to literature was not a stuffy bookstore or a polished hardback, but a wire rack in a supermarket, drugstore, or railway station. There, among the gum and cigarettes, was a paperback…
๐ฅ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Baftas 2026,Celebrity,Film,Culture,Baftas,Paul Thomas Anderson,Jessie Buckley,Sam Mendes,Warwick Davis,Prince William,Alan Cumming,Ryan Coogler,Robert Aramayo,Wunmi Mosaku ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: "I can't believe it at all. I can't believe I'm looking at people like you, in the same category as you, regardless that I'm standing here. I honestly can't believe I won this award. I really can't. Everyone in this category amazes me." Robert Aramayo Accepting the Lead Actor AwardโKylie, have you ever had your gum around a giant Jimmy Dodger?โ Hosts Alan Cumming Distribute snacks Kylie JennerโLook at that blank…
๐ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Film,Animation in film,Culture,Art,Art and design,France,Second world war ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: โMMy father liked me to swim competitively. I was in a club when I was young, but I always started a little late in races so I had no chance of winning. French animation director Florence Maille laughs about how her swimming career was over before it even began. Fortunately, the same does not apply to filmmaking. At 70, she may be overdue for her first Academy Award nomination, in the animated shorts category; But…
๐ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Music,Pop and rock,Anohni,Culture,September 11 2001,US news,World news โ
**What Youโll Learn**: โDo you remember me phoning and saying, โGet over here! You wonโt believe whatโs happened!โโ William Basinski is reminiscing with his old friend Anohni about the summer of 2001, when he made a startling discovery. Out of work and at a loose end, the experimental composer had decided to digitise some recordings heโd made in the early 1980s โ snippets of orchestral music and muzak he found on shortwave radio stations. He was planning to add…
โจ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Russia ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Zero Line: Inside Russia's War9pm on BBC TwoThe full extent of the terror and horror experienced by people in Russia who oppose Putin's war has been detailed in a stunning documentary. Fully aware of the risk of arrest - or even worse punishment - soldiers and civilians testified in secretly recorded interviews last year. Two men explain the military torture, 'meat storms' and summary executions they regularly witnessed on the front line - and one recalls the moment he knew…
๐ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Stage,George Bernard Shaw,Glasgow,Culture โ
**What Youโll Learn**: WWhen George Bernard Shaw's play was about to open at what is now the Noel Coward Theatre, a Times critic expressed concern that the playwright would use the story of Saint Joan as an excuse for political maneuvering. They wrote that Shaw "sometimes delights in criticizing the present through the past." For this unnamed critic, the appeal of Shaw's Fabian community ethics has diminished.When the same writer attended The First Night in 1924, with Sybil Thorndyke in the lead role,…
๐ฅ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Indigenous peoples,Mexico,Americas,Culture,World news ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: A Poetic tranquility lies within Gabriela Domรญnguez Ruvalcaba's vulnerable documentary, shot among the mossy hills of Chiapas, Mexico. Here resides the indigenous Tzotzil community who have maintained a pastoral way of life against the march of time. Aside from the forest ranger and the wayfarer, Ruvalcaba's film focuses almost entirely on the Tzotzil women. Together they care for the flocks of sheep that they still shear by hand, and use traditional tools to spin threads and natural dyes for…
๐ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Art and design,Art,Sculpture,Voluntary sector,Painting,Culture,Society,UK news โ
**What Youโll Learn**: From Rodin's bronze statue of the naked Eve outside the Nando's store in Harlow to more than 6,000 artworks by JMW Turner, to a crumpled piece of A4 paper owned by the Manchester Art Gallery, the UK's public art collection is a fascinating and diverse thing.It's huge, as demonstrated by the charity Art UK, which announced it had reached one million works of art in its database and appointed a new chairman who said: "We've only scratched…
