Cookery shows...and hungry people

AL Kennedy discusses TV's tendency to focus on disappearing parts of our national life.

AL Kennedy questions her love of cookery shows.

"That's when I start to feel uneasy, sitting at home staring at entremets and buttercream, three-foot-high cakes made with pints of fresh eggs, because I have this theory...that television tends to memorialise things, just as they fade away.