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because no one should have to sleep. make up your own mind. w.'s. made for mines. british singer celeste has been called the next queen of soul. for hear about her sudden rise to fame in her own words here on arts and culture and a little later on the show fighting to the death and style the intricately designed armor of ancient romans gladiators. and also on the show a german city promoting centuries of jewish history with one of europe's oldest son

argo. welcome to arts and culture well not that many debut albums draw as much attention as the one celeste put out earlier this year she says she made the $21.00 tracks on not your muse not for commercial success but just to be how she liked them and it seems a lot of other people like them too this week celeste was nominated for 3 brit awards. behind the scenes with one of britain's biggest new talents celeste epiphany wait. just to design is simple the shoes making the best out of the pandemic restrictions.

it's been a year of breakthroughs for the singing despite the goodwill of iris and look. 7 7 i think everyone in the last year and everything as being like someone and suspense and i just enjoy what i'm doing really and i think the. the sort of stardom thing is never like the thing at the end of it that i'm like looking to see what that point looks like a feels like and i guess some people it may seem like in the waiting room i don't really feel that because i'm still you know chipping away every day doing something and i feel like i'm in my stride of things.

in songs like strange. almost like. a song becomes like the map of my understanding of like myself and how i see the world and how i see my relationships with other people and. i used to write diaries and then i used to write poems and so at the age where i really needed. it could have been anything really it's just stop music became the thing that presented itself was so fluent to me. california parents split up the british mother. she grew up here in.

a fishing village on the edge of a city right. the city few. something that had always been so significant even before i started to make music myself was like those times from with my granddad cleared always usually have let me mr franklin i left it's just like him you see the thing in the back of the call and i was hearing i put a spell on you by i mean it's mine for the 1st time and i remember kind of like going like that in my seat because her voice was so deep and it kind of just like for the call put

a spell on you. celeste experimented with folk music cause electronic music but she kept coming back to jess and so following in the footsteps of great african-american singers and not just in have music. the goal was to go to. the i used to what we had set up my best friend all this high and one summer i just took out and i saw in my head like after the fast time and some mothers had come up to me and said all about my daughter like yours but she feels too shy to come i take a picture just show how it just is just to show her that my you know the way you handle that you can thank.

the that's the message of celeste debut album not news since a sudden rise to stardom comparisons to amy winehouse adele and retha franklin have been on avoidable. now. i guess something that comes with. a heightened level of expectation for where you should always could be it's kind of just up to you to kind of set that aside and make your own way and kind of show people like my old friend.

today it's all about music but an ancient rome pop star status was given to the strongest fighters gladiators who battled wild animals and each other to the death to entertain crowds a new exhibition and looks at gladiator history and legend. on the big screen they alone heroes fighting for justice in reality plenty of us fought for fame money all their own freedom. this exhibition at the national archaeological museum in naples shows the history on display here. and their weapons. paintings of gladiators risking their lives. bloody it is mostly came from the father of the empire. they were captured slaves

other times they were exogenous but they could also be free men who decided to pursue this career. most. twice a year at most and yet very few made it past the age of. there are deadly shows in the in reno where in some ways not so different from big football matches today. it will be able to fit all day for you bill and there were many stalls outside the amphitheater selling takeaway food. it was also very noisy and there would be music mocking the various performances. there's no doubt that gladiators were at the center of ancient rome entertainment industry visitors can now see the part they played in drummond society on the museum's website and when it's released code with restrictions on the states in person as well. from italy

now to germany where 76 years after the holocaust the city of el swartz is now rediscovering and probably promoting its jewish history the city boasts remnants of jewish communities dating back to the 11th century. is famous for its medieval city center attracting millions of visitors exploring the city's rich jewish history. it's for this reason that air force is applying to be included on the unesco world heritage list. after its old synagogue a major tourist attraction has been very well preserved muddiest it's of the here has been working on efforts unesco application for over a decade. after art applied because we believe that these edifices are so unique that they should be protected as part of humanity's cultural

heritage must be even rights because a mentor should we know of many jewish settlements and communities that existed during the middle ages but most remnants of them have vanished those would be got kind of soaked in some real. time to. rabbi alexander who moved to alpha several years ago to become part of the local jewish community reestablished after world war 2 after its jewish community now has some 800 members with. there is hardly a synagogue anywhere in europe with a has existed as long as this one. does why i would recommend coming to our 1st of all to see this exceptional synagogue. the synagogue cellar boasts a vast collection of 13th century gold and silver coins jewelry and other items.

upstairs in the former ball room historic hebrew manuscripts are on display. next to a medieval jewish back or mix discovered in central air for it in 2007. major construction work was needed after a section of the riverbank wall collapsed because we discovered vestiges of an old cellar in the process. we continue digging and found brick work not found in any cellars in this city. doesn't quality it was clear at that point we had found a mikvah. for. the city's so-called stone house isn't far dating back to the 13th century it was once home to jewish residents. the city began carefully analyzing the stone edifice in 2015

it ceilings feature a unique will themed paintings which were created by the residents. here over 100 gravestones from the former jewish cemetery on display. average jewish medieval heritage could make it onto the unesco list the 1st in germany. and this year germany is celebrating 1700 years of jewish history keep tuning into arts and culture and check out d.w. dot com slash culture for more i'll leave you now with the royal opera chorus in the london in their 1st performance all together and a year and you may recognize the anvil chorus from various opera it's about dotty season.

place. blame. the missing berlin nicole clue this shows those things that we can still do despite corona and the pandemic so off to the underground to discover incredible architecture in the german capitals brand new subway stations and when museums the theaters closed again what exactly does berlin have to offer there is even now a lot to discover. next w. w's crime fighters are back with the africa's most successful

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