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The Homes of Others

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AL Kennedy considers the challenges associated with staying in other people's houses.

Writer and stand-up performer AL Kennedy considers the challenges of staying in other people's houses, including observing the bathroom etiquette of one's hosts. From July 2013.

3/3. Home Sweet Home - The Homes of Others.

What's home to you or I?

Writer and stand-up AL Kennedy asks why she spends so much time away from her own hearth and home, when so much of her life is spent on the road.

It took a year for her to make the recent move from Glasgow to London. This only brought home the recognition of how important it is to have a room of one's own - especially a bathroom of her own.

But when staying with others, and in particular, relying on the generosity of friends, there's the challenge of observing the peculiar bathroom etiquette of others, while being polite to one's hosts. And when she's house-sitting, and those generous friends are away on holiday, there's the issue of lying awake at night in their habitual, well-used beds, everything in their home covered with the patina of their lives, an intrusion too far.

Producer: Mark Smalley.

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