Free Thinking 2013 - What's Eating You?
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🗓️ 23 August 2014
⏱️ 45 minutes
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What is the place of food and body image in contemporary culture? Lionel Shriver is the author of novels including We Need To Talk About Kevin and Big Brother, which depicts the impact of food obsession on family relationships. Dr Val Curtis from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is the author of Don't Look, Don't Touch: The Science Behind Revulsion. Recorded on Saturday 26th October 2013 in front of a live audience at Sage Gateshead as part of Radio 3's Free Thinking festival, chaired by Samira Ahmed.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that at some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right? |
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| 0:27.0 | when it's out of ice cream. |
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| 0:32.0 | This is a special download from the BBC Free Thinking Festival. |
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| 0:41.6 | Welcome to Freethinking and the question of food and appetite. |
| 0:45.8 | What's eating you? What's eating us? |
| 0:48.3 | How did food and the body become a battleground? |
| 0:51.5 | How did our eating habits go in just a few decades, |
| 0:55.2 | from being a symbol of abundance and health to a social epidemic that inspires political concern about its cost to the NHS |
| 1:01.7 | and the lifespan of today's obese children? And of course, disgust about our bodies and control. |
| 1:08.9 | Is it just about health? What about the manipulations of fast food giants |
| 1:13.0 | that sponsor our sporting tournaments and heroes? |
| 1:16.2 | Is there a moral disgust at play too? |
| 1:18.6 | And does God have a role? |
| 1:20.0 | After all, gluttony is one of the original seven deadly sins. |
| 1:24.0 | Well, with me now, |
| 1:24.8 | two people who've thought long and deeply |
| 1:26.5 | about our society's less than easy |
| 1:29.0 | relationship with food, the award-winning novelist Lionel Schreiber has never been afraid to tackle |
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