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Industry’s Faustian pact, a Welsh detective drama, and the return of Bridgerton – what to watch, read and listen to this week

I don’t think my new year’s resolution – to take a lunch break every day – would much impress the cast of Industry. In the BBC show’s fourth series, the idea that work might pause politely at midday feels almost quaint, like a relic of a slower moral universe.

The Conversation

Under Salt Marsh: detective drama uses the Welsh coast to explore climate anxiety

Morfa Halen means “salt marsh” in Welsh. This tidal island is a delicious invention of Sky Arts’ new detective drama, Under Salt Marsh, although it has very real antecedents in north Wales. Shell Island on the Mochras peninsula, near Harlech, inspired writer and director Claire Oakley.

The Conversation

Acting legend blames social media for ‘marked lack of interest in the arts’

The 91-year-old actress was speaking ahead of the release of Sky Arts’ Tea With Judi Dench

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Judi Dench says social media has led to a ‘marked lack of interest in the arts’

The actress said she worried young people would not benefit from the theatre in the way previous generations had.

Evening Standard

Christmas unwrapped! Your bumper festive TV guide 2025

From Judi Dench’s very naughty tea with Kenneth Branagh to the Peep Show Bake Off special – including Olivia Colman! – here’s your definitive guide to the best holiday viewing. Bring it on

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Nick Cave’s friends tell his hugely moving life story

Irvine Welsh, Bella Freud and Florence Welch explore Cave’s intoxicating work. Plus: a charming Aardman animation about a little bird. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Art’s Most Erotic review – unequivocally filthy TV

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak’s Sky documentary is a blisteringly explicit look at the depiction of sex from the giant penises of Pompeii to Shunga porn and Indian love temples. Avert your eyes, prudes!

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Mary Berry to sit for new series of Portrait Artist Of The Year

Succession actor Brian Cox and astronaut Tim Peake will also have their likeness represented in the Sky Arts series.

Evening Standard

Mozart’s Women: A Musical Journey review – Lauren Laverne helms an insight-free night that goes out with a bang

Coliseum, LondonIf you wanted to learn about the composer’s female influences, you would have been disappointed – but the arias eventually built to an electric climax

The Guardian - UK

Isle of Wight Festival: Where Can I Stream or Watch It Online, Artists And More

Festival fans can stream the Isle of Wight 2025 live on Sky, watching top artists perform from their sofas across four days.

International Business Times UK

Greta Garbo documentary reveals star as ‘a relaxed, silly, funny person’

Exclusive: Previously unseen footage of actor larking about with friends at home upends Garbo’s aloof image

The Guardian - UK

The Selecter's Pauline Black reveals her remarkable story, including why she changed her name to Black by deed poll as her feature-length rockumentary airs

In a feature-length rockumentary on Sky Arts, The Selecter's Pauline Black looks back on her life and music career

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Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story to Twisters: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

A sobering feature-length documentary chronicles the life of the singer, actor and activist’s life, plus an action-stuffed remake of a beloved 90s classic

The Guardian - UK

The Lost Music of Auschwitz: How a British composer brought hidden Holocaust symphonies to life

Composer and conductor Leo Geyer sheds light on the horrors of the Holocaust through recovered manuscripts

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The Guardian - UK

‘Why would an orchestra exist in this hell?’ Inside The Lost Music of Auschwitz

As the Red Army closed in on the concentration camp, the Nazis tried to destroy every bit of evidence – but they didn’t manage to burn all the music written there. Ahead of a new film, we meet the man who’s spent eight years piecing those extraordinary scraps of music…

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: the beautiful islands that barely any humans have visited

Take a rare tour of the UK’s loveliest rural spots with this charming series. Plus: Joanne Froggatt’s Aussie crime drama gets knottier. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Nicola Walker’s juicy divorce drama The Split returns

The Defoe family head to Barcelona for a wedding in this special two-parter. Plus: the story of Maria Callas, ahead of Angelina Jolie’s biopic. Here’s everything to watch this evening

The Independent UK

Sky Arts Awards: Mr Bates v Post Office and comedian Fern Brady among winners at inaugural event

Audiences were treated to performances by The Darkness and Lemn Sissay

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The Guardian - UK

Art Matters With Melvyn Bragg review – a shallow, unenlightening waste of time and money

This chummy, ineffective look at the arts crisis offers no solutions. And by featuring only one contributor aged under 50, it is itself part of the problem

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd; Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story and more – review

In a bumper week for rock-related programmes, a long-gestating profile of Syd Barrett offers little that’s new, Bon Jovi get the show they don’t quite deserve – and there are glaring gaps in a history of Gary Glitter’s crimes

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: the trippy story of Pink Floyd’s lost member Syd Barrett

An immersive documentary about the band’s founder, who left the group to live in solitude. Plus: more explosive drama in Traces. Here’s what to watch this evening

Evening Standard

£10,000 Cass Art Prize launched by the London family who championed Monet and Van Gogh

The competition is open to visual artists from every discipline across the UK

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: aspiring artists capture the sights of Liverpool

Painters go head to head in an effort to win the title of landscape artist of the year. Plus: the finale of the detectorist drama we all needed. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Sophie Rundle stars in action-packed thriller After the Flood

A police officer becomes obsessed with what happened to a man carried away by flood waters. Plus, what are store cards doing with our data? Here’s what to watch this evening

Guitar World

“The guitar riff is dying out”: New survey suggests the ‘majority’ of music fans believe the riff is on its way out

A new research piece has concluded the humble riff may be on its deathbed – and identified Prince's Purple Rain as the second greatest riff of all time

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