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AL Kennedy on TV's tendency to focus on disappearing parts of our national life.

AL Kennedy discusses TV's tendency to focus on disappearing parts of our national life.

AL Kennedy questions her love of cookery shows. 

"That's when I start to feel uneasy, sitting at home staring at entremets and buttercream, three-foot-high cakes made with pints of fresh eggs, because I have this theory...that television tends to memorialise things, just as they fade away.  

Producer: Adele Armstrong


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