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BBC Radio 4 - 21st Century Mythologies, Omnibus, Part 1

Peter Conrad analyses 21st-century popular culture in the spirit of Roland Barthes.

Sixty years ago, Roland Barthes dissected the popular culture of his era in Mythologies. Now Peter Conrad picks up his torch, looking at the home of piri piri chicken, Nandos.

In 1954, the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes began a series of essays in which he analysed the popular culture of his day. He called his essays "Mythologies." In this series of witty talks, the acclaimed writer and critic Peter Conrad delivers a series of 21st Century Mythologies in a French accent of the mind. Conrad ranges over the defining effluvia of our era, from the Cronut, to the Shard, to the Kardashians. Today he looks at the ubiquitous home of piri piri chicken, Nandos.

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Peter Conrad dissects the popular culture of his era, as Roland Barthes did 60 years ago.

Peter Conrad dissects the popular culture of his era, as French semiotician Roland Barthes did 60 years earlier in his Mythologies.

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