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Rachel Cooke

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Episode 4 of 5

Five writers consider the pleasures of viewing a phenomenon or activity closely. Rachel Cooke focuses on mastication and digestion, which means the business of people eating.

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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Thu 27 Jun 2019 22:45
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