Culture 2024: what to watch and listen to this year
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. Today, all the fun things to as I am this year? |
| 0:30.0 | Guys, come on, it's a whole month where this collective self-improvement |
| 0:35.6 | mania means more people are interested in discovering something new, watching |
| 0:40.8 | something enriching, or just indulging their favorite cultural |
| 0:44.4 | obsessions with fresh enthusiasm. If this is or isn't you, stay with me |
| 0:51.3 | because I had the pleasure of chatting to three guests who have |
| 0:53.9 | completely inspired me to fill my diary with things worth staying in for as well as |
| 0:58.4 | going out for and I'm hoping they'll do the same for you. The Guardian Saturday culture editor, |
| 1:04.3 | Gwillim Monford, will guide us through the best of upcoming TV. |
| 1:08.0 | There's this slightly preposterous celebration of villainy that I find completely intoxicating. |
| 1:14.4 | Our esteemed film critic Peter Bradshaw is on hand to tell us about the films and awards |
| 1:18.9 | and trends we want to look out for. |
| 1:21.1 | It's an absolutely rock and roll, gonzo, bad taste fest, which is my idea of two |
| 1:27.4 | thumbs up. And culture critic, Beyonce biographer and Mercury Music Prize Judge, |
| 1:33.0 | Sappo McKenna will give us a breakdown of the artist and sounds worth following in |
| 1:37.5 | 2024. |
| 1:38.5 | It's an album all about kind of lust and love and what it feels to make yourself vulnerable. |
| 1:44.0 | Yes, there is a lot to get through. |
| 1:50.0 | From The Guardian, I'm the Scenic Bar. |
| 1:53.0 | Today in Focus. Culture 2024. |
| 1:57.0 | What's in store? Grilla Munford, you're the culture editor for Guardian Saturday. |
| 2:09.0 | Let's say that I've got my sofa blanket, my snacks, my thick ugly socks. I'm ready to get cozy with a |
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