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Radio 4 Extra,2 mins

Pucker Up

Available for over a year

How – and what – we kiss reveals much about our culture and society. Anthropologist Helen Fisher explains the importance of kissing to chimpanzees, while kissing expert William Cane describes the kissing culture of the South Pacific. Part of an exploration of kissing by former Editor of the Erotic Review, Rowan Pelling, in ‘A Kiss is… Never Just a Kiss’ for BBC Radio 4.

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