'Taste' is a highly individual cultural attribute, an indicator of personality and refinement. For Zakia Sewell, a DJ and broadcaster, it's most viscerally - and most precisely - expressed through music, revealing so much about each of us and about the world we've built around ourselves.

She starts her deconstruction of what we mean by 'taste' by comparing notes with her friend Flo Dill, with whom Zakia co-hosts the NTS Breakfast Show, to talk about niche audiences and musical 'cheese'.

She then visits two temples of musical connoisseurship. At Wigmore Hall, possibly the world's finest chamber music venue, she meets John Gilhooly who sometimes has to put his own preferences to one side in programming concerts. At Honest Jon's, the famous Portobello Road record shop where she used to work, Zakia interrogates the musical predilections of her old boss, Alan Scholefield.

Presented by Zakia Sewell
Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
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