TV and Culture Guide: What to Watch, Read and Listen to This March
Spring brings a whole host of entertainment to enjoy
– What to Watch –
Bridgerton
Netflix
We’ll forgive you if you’ve already binged the final four episodes of this season. The regency romance between Benedict and Sophie continues but will their relationship be forever forbidden? And can the musicians pull off a classical cover of a Charli XCX track?
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
Cinemas & Netflix
In cinemas from 6th March and coming to Netflix soon, Tommy Shelby is back amid the chaos of World War II with the future of his family at stake. Cillian Murphy will join Barry Keoghan and Stephen Graham in this film following the finale of the award-winning show.
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
Netflix
From the creator of Derry Girls comes this new Irish comedy/thriller where three friends embark on a quest to solve the mystery of a suspicious death whilst keeping their own dark secret under wraps. Binge all eight episodes now on Netflix.
The Claudia Winkleman Show
BBC
The celebrity line-up has been confirmed for the first episode of The Claudia Winkleman Show on 13th March: Jeff Goldblum, Vanessa Williams, Jennifer Saunders and Tom Allen will join Claudia on her brand-new talk show.
Imperfect Women
Apple TV
New to Apple TV on 18th March, a murder shatters the lives of three friends and reveals shocking truths in this drama series starring The Handmaid’s Tale’s Elisabeth Moss.
– What to Read –
We Loved
The Worst Hard Time
Timothy Egan
This devastating social history of the people who survived the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s feels more like reading a dread-inducing thriller than an account of something that really took place almost 100 years ago. Tim Egan travels through America’s Great Plains speaking with the few surviving eyewitnesses, who tell of days spent in darkness under dust clouds, farms abandoned by desperate families and what the government failed to learn from one of the 20th century’s greatest environmental disasters. The stories of the many who chose to stay are deeply moving.
Neave Herridge, Food Editor
The Wrong Sister
Claire Douglas
Alice and Tasha are sisters, and though they look alike their lives couldn’t be more different. Alice is a career-focused high-earner in London whereas Tasha stayed in the village they grew up in, raising her young family. Tasha and her husband Aaron are in desperate need of a holiday, and when Alice offers to stay at home with the kids they jump at the opportunity. But the holiday ends abruptly when Alice and her husband are attacked in Tasha’s home. Now Kyle is dead and the family secrets start to unravel. Sibling rivalry and family loyalties intertwine with a dark reality which will leave you with one question – how far would you go to protect your side of the story?
Ellie Patterson, Designer
On Our List
The Third Apology
D. A. Adamson
It’s the late ‘60s and two friends have decided to drop out of school and hitchhike from France to Marrakech. The pair never make it beyond the south of France where they meet a charming French girl, and the following years are marked by love and heartache. Decades earlier, a member of the French Resistance falls in love with an English agent. These stories of love and loss will carry through generations. Douglas Adamson (writing under D. A. Adamson) lives in Wensleydale and has penned other titles such as the Windleton series, and published several short stories online. The Third Apology is available now.
Watermark
David Ronn
Morpeth’s David Ronn (former Managing Director of Alnwick Castle and The Alnwick Garden) has released his debut novel. Watermark, published by independent Hexham publisher Curlicue, is set in historic Northumberland and late-Revolutionary France and is available on Amazon.
– What To Listen To –
Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally
Harry Styles
The upcoming fourth studio album from GRAMMY-award winner Harry Styles releases on 6th March contains 12 new tracks we can’t wait to hear.
The Way I Am
Luke Combs
The sixth studio album by American country music singer Luke Combs will release on 20th March, with fans looking forward to hearing the 22 songs on the track list.
This Music May Contain Hope
Raye
On 27th March, the upcoming second studio album from singer-songwriter Raye will feature 17 tracks including the lead single Where Is My Husband!, which became her second number one on the UK singles chart.
