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15 April 2025
Black Mirror's shocking first episode is still relevant today
In 2011, Black Mirror debuted on Channel 4 with a truly disturbing first episode. More than a decade on, with a new season arriving on Netflix, it's worth looking back at the audacious political story told in The National Anthem.
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10 April 2025
Adolescence: A few words about anti-climax and missing the point
Some Netflix viewers have criticised Adolescence for its anti-climactic ending. But actually, that sense of a story left wide open is very much a feature, not a bug.
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2 April 2025
Is This What We Want? is a loud protest against AI music
On 25th February, a wide range of renowned British musicians came together to protest against changes to UK copyright law around the rise of AI. How? By releasing a silent album.
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7 March 2025
Severance: An anti-capitalist beacon amid a burgeoning American oligarchy
Apple TV's biggest show is back on screens with Severance season 2. But with a new president in the White House and turbulent political times, Severance and its ideas stand as even more of an impressive achievement.
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28 February 2025
How The Apprentice is reflecting the hierarchy evident in today's society
An exploration of how the popular business TV show, The Apprentice, represents real power struggles that we experience in society today, and how we can combat these to ensure that everyone's voices are heard.
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1 February 2025
Brian and Maggie: the Trouble With Adapting Modern History
The viewers, placed in the swivel-chair of journalist Brian Walden, are invited to interrogate the Thatcher legacy in this Channel 4 drama miniseries. But can the small screen ever fully capture such a divisive figure as Margaret Thatcher?
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7 March 2025 – 14 May 2025
Rhiannon Faith Company invite you to Lay Down Your Burdens around the UK
Radical and proudly socially conscious dance/theatre from Rhiannon Faith Company. Featuring live music and set in a friendly and welcoming pub where we are invited to join the regulars, shed our baggage and weariness and collectively lighten the load
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29 November 2024
In This Climate: Did COP29 actually achieve anything?
Keir Starmer was one of only a few major leaders who headed to Azerbaijan for the COP29 climate conference in Baku. We assembled a panel to react to whether the conference will help us in fighting the climate crisis.
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22 November 2024
What has Keir Starmer's government said about the climate crisis?
Labour promised to put tackling the climate crisis at the heart of its agenda. Four months after the General Election, does Keir Starmer's track record match up to what he said he would do?
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5 November 2024
What does the US Election 2024 mean to us in the UK?
Today, America goes to the polls to decide whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will be the next President of the United States. Here's what the Voice Community thinks about what this pivotal vote will mean for us all.
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12 September 2024
Kick Some Class: Dr Teresa Crew explains what class actually means in 2024
Dr Teresa Crew from Bangor University is an expert on the difficult topic of social class. So she was just the sort of clever person we wanted to speak to ahead of our Kick Some Class series.
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22 July 2024
Poet Luke Wright to take Joy to Edinburgh Fringe
This new show finds Luke drilling down into the slippery concept of joy, with outrageous slices of spoken word, inventive uses of the poetic form alongside utterly heart-wrenching moments. And there’s a stack of great gags to boot!
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31 July 2024 – 13 August 2024
Luke Wright: JOY! at Edinburgh Fringe
The Fringe's favourite poet returns with stacks of brilliant, big-hearted poems that get to grips with joy in mulchy middle age.
Come let a little joy into your life with a raconteur and wordsmith at the top of his game -
10 February 2024
This House Review
A review of "This House" by James Graham produced by The National Theatre.
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8 January 2024
My Young Vote: Nikeria Tannis
Nikeria reflects on the power of the young vote
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20 December 2023
My Young Vote: Elle Farrell-Kingsley
Your voice matters — use it to carve a path towards a future that aligns with your aspirations
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30 September 2023
The climate U-turn and what it means for Sunak vs Starmer
What Sunak’s climate announcement means for Conservative and Labour leadership
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28 September 2023
The Father and the Assassin: The Review
The Father and the Assassin tells the story of Mahatma Gandhi (The Father) and Nathuram Godse (The Assassin). I can’t explain how much the concept of this excited me.