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Brave Bettie Review – One night for a daring duo to save a mighty oak tree | stage

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Children's theatre,Environment,Activism,Stage,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TTwo stories intertwine in Tatenda Naomi Matsavai's new play, rooted in the natural world. The first is a folk tale, read downstage by schoolgirl Betty, about Bida Moyo, who protects her Zimbabwean kingdom from “men with a sword” and rescues an injured lioness. The second is Bettie's own nighttime adventure, accompanied by Paida Moyo, to save a cherished oak tree from falling as part of the evil local council's plans for a new car park.The back story is delivered with the…

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Saturday Night Live Bafta sketch described as ‘horrific’ by leading Tourette’s syndrome charity | Saturday Night Live

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Saturday Night Live,US television,Television & radio,Television,Culture,JK Rowling,Mel Gibson,Film,Tourette syndrome,Health,TV comedy,US news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Saturday Night Live is under fire over a sketch that mocked the Bafta N-word incident, with a leading Tourette's Syndrome (TS) charity branding it "horrific".Filmed in the style of an informative public service announcement, the clip featured the SNL cast members as public figures explaining that their controversial comments were due to TS. The sketch was cut for a time on NBC's Saturday night show but was uploaded to YouTube shortly after.Andrew…

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“My guitar was distorted, like my life!” Goo Goo Dolls Talk About How They Made Their Epic Song Iris | culture

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Music,Pop and rock,Film ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: John Rzeznik, singer, songwriter, guitaristI was going through a divorce and living in a hotel in West Hollywood when my manager said that Warner Brothers was looking for songs for the movie City of Angels. They already had U2, Peter Gabriel and Alanis Morissette, so I thought having a track there would draw attention to us. Warner showed me the movie and it was like Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire. They wanted a song for the scene in which…

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The Rijksmuseum reveals that the painting is an early work by Rembrandt art

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Rembrandt,Netherlands,Art and design,Culture,Painting,Europe,Museums,Heritage,World news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The painting had been hanging on the wall of a private home for decades, but the 17th century painting has now been revealed to be a Rembrandt, taking its potential value from thousands to millions of pounds.The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam announced Monday that it has rediscovered an early writing scene by the Dutch artist previously thought to be lost, thanks to a high-tech survey and two years of expert analysis.Since the 1960s, the Vision of Zechariah in the…

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‘Learn with Lady Rachel’ review – undoubtedly the TV event of the year for millions of us | TV and radio

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Children's TV,Education ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: FOr those whose cultural experiences are largely absorbed through the prism of their infants demanding the same thing 437 times in a row, it's been a long four months. In late October last year, Rachel Accurso released the song “Brush Your Teeth” with Ms. Rachel and Elmo. The 48 million views it has achieved since then reflect its status as a solid addition to Ms Rachel's canon, and the whole thing has clearly been boosted by Elmo's guest…

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The King’s Warden review – a lively Korean period drama where a deposed king takes refuge in the 15th century | film

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Period and historical films,Drama films,South Korea,Comedy films,Asia Pacific,Comedy,Culture,World news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IThe Korean equivalent of an SEZ in the 15th century appears to have been a royal court official exiled to a remote backwater, with all the attendant wealth and comforts that came with them. That's the hook of this lively historical piece, as village leader Um Heung-do (Yoo Hae-jin) wanders into a nearby settlement and — due to the former Minister of Justice being on the property — is surprised to find the…

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How Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech launched the Cold War 80 years ago

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Churchill reminded people how in the 1930s he had warned against appeasing Hitler and Nazi Germany, but “no one listened, and one by one we all fell into the terrible whirlpool.” "We certainly must not allow this to happen again," he added. While he did not believe the Soviet Union sought another conflict, he said they wanted "the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines." He warned that if Western democracies did not stand together in defense of the UN…

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Why Secret Agent Should Win the Academy Award for Best Picture | film

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✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Oscars 2026,World cinema,Brazil,Culture,Drama films,Thrillers ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AIn all, this year's Oscars feature about six favorites and headliners, and among them are some truly great films. But the film that sticks in my mind is Knight's step away from consensus on the talking point: a sophisticated, wayward, and astonishingly talkative film from Brazil, a film about love and fatherhood, tyranny and resistance, and coming to terms with the past. It is digressive and humorous, and yet in its final act it escalates startlingly from lurid…

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‘Some parents said they would break my knees’: The teacher who exposed Putin’s propaganda in primary school | Oscars 2026

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Oscars 2026,Documentary films,Baftas,Baftas 2026,Vladimir Putin,Russia,Education,World news,Awards and prizes,Europe,Culture,Film 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn order to watch the Oscar-nominated documentary in which many of them play starring roles, pupils at Karabash School No. 1 had to obtain smuggled copies, and watch the film in private, on their phones or laptops.Russian state media snubbed the BAFTA award for best documentary last week for Mr. Nobody vs. Putin, and the award the film won at Sundance last year was met with silence. School staff and government officials in the Kremlin…

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Good appetite! Celebrity Friends Go for Lunch: This Week’s Best Podcasts | TV and radio

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Podcasting 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Choose the weekTable for fourOne for Gavin & Stacey fans, as Joanna Pegg and her on-screen husband Matthew Horne reunite for a food podcast. It's a familiar formula: They invite two famous friends over for lunch (courtesy of Good Food) and light chat about things like the cookie/cake debate at Jaffa Cakes. Page is at his best with the first guests, wine lovers Gary Barlow and Olly Smith: "I don't know anything about wine; I'm from Swansea, I grew…

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