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Radio 3,01 Feb 2018,14 mins

SeriesLooking Good

Rachel Cooke

The Essay

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Five writers consider the pleasures of viewing a phenomenon or social activity closely: Rachel Cooke considers the way people eat, what it says about them that is good and bad and amusing. Yet her starting line is unnerving - "the optics of eating are inherently violent." How so? Producer Duncan Minshull.

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