Culturetopia: Must-Listen Arts & Entertainment (Puzzler Edition)

It's time once again for NPR's podcast of the week's best arts stories. No tricky head-scratchers to begin with — we start by looking back at the past ten years in music and wondering how music blogs emerged as important arbiters of critical taste.

Then Monkey See's own Linda Holmes gives us ten reasons why the past ten years was TV's decade. (Her reasons range from the rise of the Disney Channel to the demise of comedies with dumb husbands and pretty wives.)

An immersive interview with P.D. James has the detective novelist reflecting upon almost half a century of writing. (James says she was vastly more influenced by Dorothy Sayer's sociological sensibilities than by Agatha Christie, whom she describes as "basically a puzzler." Snap!)

A Boston surgeon explains why doctors prefer classical music over death metal when compiling their operating room playlists, and actor Colin Firth, best known for portraying Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, discusses playing quite a different sort of bachelor in the new film adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel A Single Man.

Finally, our beloved film critic Bob Mondello takes us through the worst movies of the decade. (Believe it or not, he says plenty of them are much, much worse than Gigli.) And if you think Bob is funny (he is), you should check out the comments on the story page — dozens of comedians were inspired to write in with their picks.