Winter watching and reading recommendations from Leeds

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What's the best thing you've watched or read this year? Leeds locals share their recommendations for films, TV series and books for the dark winter nights.

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00:00Fluribus is on Oklahoma, which is amazing, basically any of the sci-fi things that are on Apple TV+, get my vote.

00:08I think the 48 Laws of Power, it can be a controversial book, but I think it teaches you how to navigate society.

00:16It's a great, actually, Northern Irish programme called Blue Lights, which is on the BBC, fantastic series.

00:23It was the third one, and it's probably the best one.

00:26It showcases Belfast and not always in a negative way.

00:30I've just watched what came from me, so I'm a bit behind with times, and I've just started watching Geeky Blinders, which is really good.

00:38Books, I like Peter James, all the way. Every year, Beans went out, Roy Grace, Detective.

00:44My reading's limited at the minute to anything by Julia Donaldson, so to watch, yeah, I think Stickman's at the theatre.

00:50And to watch on television, I would stick to the oldest, things like Home Alone and Bad Santa and things like that for the adults,

00:57because if you don't like what's going on in the news, then surely it was better in the 80s.

01:01You've got to watch The Holiday.

01:02The Holiday, Love Actually.

01:04Love Actually.

01:04Film Alone.

01:05Elf.

01:06Elf.

01:07The Grinch.

01:07But not the new one, the old one.

01:09Yeah.

01:10Jim Carrey.

01:10Yeah.

01:11And then Not Christmassy, you've got to read Little Women, old book, but you can never go wrong with it.

01:16Stranger Things.

01:17Stranger Things, yeah.

01:18Stranger Things.

01:19And for a book, I'll recommend The Secret History.

01:22The obvious one that I just enjoyed recently is Slow Horses 5.

01:27There's other ones.

01:28I like Billy Bob Thornton, so I like Landman and Goliath.

01:32I love re-watching films that I've seen in the past, and I find on today's modern streaming services,

01:38Netflix, Prime, Disney+, etc.

01:40There are great availability of the classics.

01:44Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Liam Neeson, Jim Carrey.

01:49I'm a huge fan of re-watching what I enjoyed when I was younger and re-living those moments again.

01:55And equally, I've been really enjoying some modern seriesers, such as Jack Ryan and Reacher.

02:01Best Dream Impatience at the moment.

02:04It's a crowd series what gets you thinking, and you're bringing the serval doing with it.

02:10Another good binge series is Landman.

02:12I think it's on Paramount Plus, and it's really, really binge-worthy.

02:18I do love Science, A New Scientist, and there's a fabulous book called The Future is Predictable

02:23by Tom Tilvers, all about maths, and it's fun, even though it's maths.

02:27I think far too many people want to look at the American shows and go,

02:30let's go watch all the American shows.

02:31It's like, have a look at some of the English ones.

02:33Some of the best writers ever are English writers of shows that are coming out or out now.

02:38I probably would encourage people to watch less TV.

02:41That's what I would do, even though this is going to be going out on TV.

02:44I think over the Christmas period, I tend to read books that are all very similar.

02:50They tend to be thrillers.

02:51I'm waiting on the new Jack Reacher book coming out.

02:55And there's Mylan Brandor as well, is another series that I follow.

02:59I hope.

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