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Plays, concerts and world-class dance can all be enjoyed online from the comfort of your home. Here, we bring you day-by-day culture to stream in lockdown

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Director Barry Jenkins adapts Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel The Underground Railroad for Amazon Prime. Thuso Mbedu, Aaron Pierre, Will Poulter, and William Jackson Harper star

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This French comedy-drama series on Netflix explores the world of agents and actors, featuring cameos from Juliette Binoche, Jean Reno, Isabelle Huppert and Sigourney Weaver

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In this new French thriller, the music video director Franck (Sébastien Houbani) is assigned to make a video for the known gangster and aspiring rapper Tony (Abdramane Diakite)

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Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley and Fionn Whitehead star in this all-new digital production, bringing Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray into the present day

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In this dark, satirical thriller, Rosamund Pike stars as a swindling guardian of elderly clients. But her schemes are foiled when she crosses a Russian mobster (Peter Dinklage)

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Simona Brown stars as Louise, a secretary and single mother who gets stuck in a dangerous love triangle between David (Tom Bateman) and Adele (Eve Hewson)

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Theatre 

Fleabag’s Sian Clifford stars alongside Nikesh Patel in this digital production of Lorien Haynes’ Good Grief, produced by Platform Presents

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The Culture Whisper team has picked its favourite comedies now available to stream. From Fleabag to Parks and Recreation, this hilarious selection will keep you smiling through lockdown

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Cinema 

In this new biopic, David Bowie (Johnny Flynn) tries to find his identity as a musician in the years leading up to Ziggy Stardust. Marc Marron also stars

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Cinema 

Regina King's film debut examines the historic meeting between Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Cassius Clay (Eli Goree), Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr) and Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge)

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TV 

In season 2, Emily Dickinson (Hailee Steinfeld) is approaching fame as a poet after the newspaper mogul Samuel Bowles (Finn Jones) comes to town. But does she really want it?

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Cinema 

In this curiously subverted crime drama, Rachel Brosnahan stars as Jean, wife to a criminal who's betrayed his partners. Jean goes on the run, hiding from possible killers

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TV 

John Cusack and Rainn Wilson star in this surreal conspiracy thriller, centred around a graphic novel that predicts the apocalypse. It's a US remake of Dennis Kelly's Channel 4 original

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Netflix 

Elizabeth Debicki will join Jonathan Pryce and Imelda Staunton as the cast for the final two seasons of The Crown

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Netflix 

With White Lines, Álex Pina (Money Heist) brings a bingeable Netflix crime-drama that ridiculously explores the Ibizan underworld with enjoyable abandon. Daniel Mays stars

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Cinema 

Eliza Hittman cements herself as one of the most exciting filmmakers around with her new film, a young woman's odyssey to get an abortion in the US

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Netflix 

In The Eddy, Damien Chazelle revisits his musical roots: this time in present-day Paris. André Holland (Moonlight) stars as club owner Elliot, whose past catches up with him

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Cinema 

Nora Fingscheidt's debut feature System Crasher was Germany's Oscar entry, and focuses on a young girl tossed between families looking for love

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Cinema 

Haifaa al-Mansour, the first female filmmaker from Saudi Arabia, directs The Perfect Candidate which sees one woman take on the world

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Cinema 

Disney's very own streaming service has finally launched in the UK – featuring Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, Fox and more

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TV 

It's no longer an unsubstantiated rumour: a Friends reunion special is coming to HBO's new streaming service, HBO Max. Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, et al, are returning

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Here's everything you need to know about the new streaming venture from the BBC and ITV. Shows include Broadchurch, Fawlty Towers and Downton Abbey

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Apple TV+ launches on Friday with a slew of stars including Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell, Hailee Steinfeld and Jason Mamoa

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In What/If, Renée Zellweger plays Rose Montgomery, a venture capitalist who controls people like puppets. Her latest experiment is business-owner Lisa (Jane Levy)...

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In Back to Life, Daisy Haggard plays an ex-convict who's released after an 18-year sentence. Now, she has to adjust to modern life

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Science and screams from Martin Freeman, and everything out this May on Netflix UK