167. The cult of reality TV | Jacques Peretti

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Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4 • 968 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Jacques Peretti is a multi-talented journalist, writer and documentary maker who, in his podcast "Edge of Reality', investigated the suicides in reality tv shows. Sign up through wren.co/ontheedge to make a difference in the climate crisis, and Wren will plant 10 extra trees in your name! Jacques Peretti links: https://twitter.com/jacquesperetti https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Edge-Of-Reality-The-Story-TVs-Too-Scared-to-Tell-Podcast/B0B4T59YQG https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Jacques-Peretti/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AJacques+Peretti Andrew Gold links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.5	Murderers fascists this is suicide television what the hell is this show going to be?
1:05.4	Half the population of Sweden tuning, they want to see what happened.
1:10.0	Either feeling that some of you may be hesitantly clicked on this because you thought
1:16.6	all celebrity reality TV stuff not my bag and perhaps you thought this might be a guilty pleasure and look into a big brother in Love Island and that stuff.
1:27.0	And that is going to happen today and Survivor and some of the other reality TV series.
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