Celebrity Pets
In his dissection of the popular culture of our era, Peter Conrad turns his attention to celebrity pets.
In 1954, the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes began a series of essays in which he analysed the popular culture of his day. He called his essays "Mythologies." In this series of witty talks, the acclaimed writer and critic Peter Conrad delivers a series of 21st Century Mythologies in a French accent of the mind. Conrad ranges over the defining effluvia of our era, from the Shard, to the Kardashians to today, celebrity pets.
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- Wed 22 Oct 2014 12:04Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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21st Century Mythologies
Peter Conrad dissects the popular culture of his era, as Roland Barthes did 60 years ago.
