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| The Guardian - Culture: TV & Radio | | | | | | Best podcasts of the week: the 'Black Wall Street' and the atrocity that destroyed it | | by Hannah Verdier, Alexi Duggins and Hollie Richardson Dec 31, 2021 | | Gal-dem shines a spotlight on the shocking truths behind the thriving black community of Greenwood. Plus: Strippers in the Attic Reclaimed & Rewritten
A century after the Tulsa massacre, gal-dem shines a spotlight on the atrocity that destroyed the thriving black community of Greenwood. Host Clarkisha Kent has many a sharp intake of breath as she hears about how the district known as Black Wall Street wasn’t the utopian community it was meant to be. As the six-part podcast unfolds, it doesn’t hold back with uneasy truths – but it is about time they were told. Hannah Verdier Continue reading... | | | | | Stay Close review – your new Netflix binge-watch? This irresistible thriller | | by Lucy Mangan Dec 31, 2021 | | James Nesbitt is a brooding detective in this Harlan Coben thriller, in which Cush Jumbo is dragged back into her shady old life. You won’t be able to turn it off Fourteen of author Harlan Coben’s 31 novels, we are told, are due to be adapted for Netflix. Your mileage may vary, of course, but as I have a barely satiable appetite for bingeable thrillers, I see this as more promise than threat. Last year we had The Stranger, an adaptation of Coben’s 2015 bestseller, which leapt from cliffhanger to cliffhanger to tell the increasingly baroque-slash-demented tale of a husband (Richard Armitage) who discovers from a mysterious stranger that his wife faked her pregnancy and miscarriage before she disappeared. Dum-dum-DAH. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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