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Meet the families who uprooted their lives to help create Australian cotton's lasting legacy

From a cottage industry to leaders in the global export market, Australian cotton farmers have pioneered their product from the First Fleet to today — and they're not done yet.

ABC News

Fire chief slams men seen jumping into beauty spot river yards away from place teen tragically drowned

A group of men were spotted jumping into the River Irwell at Clifton Country Park, yards away from where 14-year-old Adam Kay drowned in June 2020

Manchester Evening News

NHS suicides ‘brushed under carpet’, BBC show creator says as memorial unveiled

This Is Going To Hurt writer Adam Kay has planted a tree in tribute to health workers who have taken their own lives.

The Independent UK

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TV rarely gets childbirth right. After Roe, the gory truth matters more than ever

"Bloody show" is a colorful term for the mixture of blood and mucus that indicates the cervix is preparing for labor.

Los Angeles Times

Shipping container shortage sends cotton industry 'back to the future'

Australia's cotton industry is about to experience a blast from its past, when more than 100,000 bales are exported to Turkey using a method popular a century ago.

ABC News

Better Call Saul to Taskmaster: your favourite TV of 2022 so far

We asked you what you’ve loved watching this year. From the most joyous, ridiculous show on our screens to a basketball classic, here are Guardian readers’ top TV tips

The Guardian - UK

8 new TV shows to watch during Pride Month

Guides to Pride can be a complicated endeavor these days, as the annual celebration of LGBTQ+ identity now regularly involves the very forces — corporations, cops — it once stood against. And don’t even get us started on our mixed feelings about celebrating queer stories from Hollywood networks and studios…

Los Angeles Times

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New this week: 'Interceptor,' Post Malone and 'Fire Island'

This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Post Malone and Drive-By Truckers, “Fast & Furious” alum Elsa Pataky leading her own action picture with “Interceptor,” and PBS’ “National Memorial Day Concert” returning live after years of taped presentations because of COVID-19

The Independent UK

'Little legend', aged 5, saves mum's life after she has near-fatal asthma attack on the school run

Oliver Bott’s dad put his son's quick thinking down to his obsession with shows like CBBC’s Operation Ouch and listening to doctor-turned-comedian Adam Kay on audiobook

Wales Online

Jessie Ware and mum Lennie take Table Manners on tour - reviewed

The big night out that feels like a cosy night in, as the crowd bonds with the comedic mum and daughter duo over our love of food

Manchester Evening News

Cotton industry touts water efficiency credentials but environmentalists still sceptical

For years environmental groups have put the industry under the microscope, saying the "thirsty" crop should not be grown on the driest continent. After decades of work, the industry now claims to be one of the most water-efficient in the world.

ABC News

Faces of 19 people jailed in Liverpool this week

An overview of Liverpool court cases and those jailed for crimes linked to Merseyside

Liverpool Echo

'Violent bully' abused ex and threw bricks through her window

Adam Kay sent the woman vile messages and threw bricks through her window

Liverpool Echo

This Is Going To Hurt: Real NHS workers made BBC drama possible, and taught cast how to do operations

Real NHS workers were brought in to breathe life into the show, and make it as realistic as possible

Bristol Post

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The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: what happens when we radically simplify our lives?

Find out the answer to that question in The Simpler Life with Prof Barry Schwartz. Plus: celebrities get baking for charity. Here’s what to watch this evening

Wales Online

Top five TV shows to watch tomorrow including This is Going to Hurt finale, Bake Off for SU2C and Susanna Reid's new ITV documentary

Take a look at our TV highlights for Tuesday, March 22

The Guardian - UK

It would be a moral and medical disaster if Britain became a surrogacy centre

‘Routine’ childbirth is dangerous. Let’s not add commodified women to the risk list

The Guardian - UK

This Is Going to Hurt disrespectful to women? No it isn’t

Letter: Driving the book and the script is a commitment to do justice to people’s experiences and lives, writes Val Walsh

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Bristol Post

What other books has This Is Going To Hurt author Adam Kay published and what TV shows has he worked on?

This Is Going to Hurt is proving a hit with viewers for its candid portrayal of life as a junior doctor

Daily Mirror

This Is Going to Hurt's Adam Kay got foul-mouthed response when he rang in sick

This Is Going To Hurt's Adam Kay, the real life doctor being played by Ben Whishaw in the BBC series, was so tired he slept in his car and felt forced work even when he was ill

The Guardian - UK

This Is Going to Hurt’s Ambika Mod: ‘Whenever I did a caesarean I was buzzing!’

Playing junior doctor Shruti is a far cry from the standup’s ‘really silly’ sketch comedy but her improv background helped her find moments of levity in Adam Kay’s NHS drama

The Guardian - UK

‘Childbirth as it really is’: This Is Going to Hurt actor defends series accused of misogyny

Ambika Mod, who plays stressed junior doctor, reacts to criticism that BBC drama disrespects women

Evening Standard

If it’s going to hurt that much, I’m not sure childbirth is for me

The opening scene of This Is Going To Hurt, the BBC drama based on Adam Kay’s bestselling memoir about his time as a junior doctor on an NHS labour ward, sees a pregnant woman doubled over in pain outside the hospital with a tiny arm hanging out of her vagina.…

Evening Standard

We can’t go on running the economy by lurching from crisis to crisis

In the BBC drama This Is Going to Hurt, based on Adam Kay’s memoirs, we see an NHS that is barely holding it together. Doctors and nurses are stretched just above breaking point, so eventually some break. The wiring for emergency alarms in the labour ward is just about functioning,…

Liverpool Echo

Who is the star of BBC's latest drama This Is Going To Hurt Ben Whishaw?

Ben Whishaw plays junior doctor Adam Kay in the medical drama

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