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Rough Magic: Sweets

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

The last of four philosophical adventures in the anthropology of everyday life by Steven Connor.

All magical objects are objects out of time. Sweets are intensely anachronistic and always belong to our past. Why and how do they hold time up?

(Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm)

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Presenter:
Steven Connor
Producer:
Tim Dee
Source: Radio Times

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