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✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Culture,Television & radio 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: Grand Riviera Railroad Trip in Sandy8.05pm Channel 4 The beautiful Sandi Toksvig travels along the French Riviera, following in the footsteps of the artists, writers and freethinkers who made this charming holiday destination the "beating heart of intellectual life" in the 20th century. After the shock of the first train arriving on time in Marseille, Toksvig heads to Sanary-sur-Mer, where Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, and German writers Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht spent time. Holly RichardsonStrictly…

🚀 Discover this insightful post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: Cross told the BBC that Curtis saw his mission as “documenting what he believed to be a ‘dying race’”. She says he extracted from his photographs “signs of modernity” such as clocks, serving the illusion that Aboriginal people remained suspended in time, living only in the past. She says that Curtis, by perpetuating the myth of the “vanishing Indian”, erased the “truth” that Aboriginal people “adapted to new technologies over time”. By wearing their tribal emblems, Red Star is saying: “We are here, and we are…

🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Life and style,Self Esteem,Pop and rock,Music,Culture 💡 Main takeaway: forIn Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Rebecca Lucy Taylor, 39, was in the duo Slow Club. 10 years later, she has a solo Self Esteem award and received a Mercury Prize and NME and Brit nominations for her second album, 2021's Prioritize Pleasure. This year she won the Ivor Novello Visionary Award and released a book and album called A Complicated Woman. In March, she starred in David Hare's Teeth 'n' Smiles at the Duke of York's Theatre, London. She…

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Margaret Atwood,Books,Social history,Women,Culture,Canada,US news,Feminism,US politics,Older people,Social trends,Society 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: After the ­phenomenal global success, not to mention timeliness, of the TV adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale in 2017, Margaret Atwood has been regarded as “a combination of figurehead, prophet and saint”, the author writes in her new memoir Book of Lives. Over 600 pages this “memoir of sorts” ranges from her childhood growing up in the Canadian backwoods to her grief at the death of her partner of 48 years, the writer Graeme…