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The Pleasure Telephone / Better Than Sex

4 Extra Debut. Dane Baptiste introduces the extraordinary story of 'The Pleasure Telephone', and writer Jeannette Winterson recalls a sensual pleasure in 'Better Than Sex'.

'The Pleasure Principle' host, comedian, Dane Baptiste, continues his exploration of our desire for pleasure using the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ radio archive by introducing:

The Pleasure Telephone
Dane Baptiste ponders what we did for pleasure before the internet, with a prescient story of entertainment home delivery. Edward Seckerson tells the remarkable story of the use of the early telephone to relay live entertainment and news direct to subscribers' homes in the late 19th/early 20th century in The Pleasure Telephone.
First heard on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 in 2010.

Better Than Sex
Dane Baptiste introduces Better than Sex - where four writers celebrate an experience that brings them intense pleasure. In this episode BAFTA winning novelists Jeanette Winterson recalls Second Hand Pleasures.

First heard on Radio 4 in 1997.

'The Pleasure Principle' season on 4 Extra is produced for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra by Peter McHugh.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 21 Jul 2018 12:00

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  • Sat 21 Jul 2018 12:00