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Radio 4,10 Sep 2008,30 mins

Café Culture – Human Waste

Thinking Allowed

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CAFÉ CULTURE Laurie Taylor examines our behaviour in coffee shops with Dr Eric Laurier, author of The Cappuccino Community: cafes and civic life in the contemporary city. HUMAN WASTE Simon Winchester wrote that “Few are the writers brave and bold enough to take on so difficult a topic”. Rose George is bold enough, and she talks about her new book The Big Necessity; Adventures in the World of Human Waste with Patrick Wakely, Emeritus Professor of Urban Development at University College London.

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