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DJ and broadcaster Zakia Sewell explores what we mean by 'taste'.

Zakia Sewell explores the ideas of identity, aesthetics and social conditioning that lie within 'taste'.

'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.

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Taste: Episode 3: Artefacts

Episode 3: Artefacts

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Zakia Sewell examines what we mean by 'taste'.

Aesthetic preferences, for Zakia Sewell, have always been woven into her identity, informing the ways she’s engaged with the world, through like-minded music lovers and fashion tribes.  Taste is also enshrined in objects that come to be deemed of greater or lesser value.  

In this episode, Zakia visits the Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent to talk with curator Ben Miller, ponders the nature of 'kitsch' with Ruth Holliday (co-author with Tracey Potts of Kitsch! Cultural Politics and Taste), and explores with Dr Rebecca Chamberlain of Goldsmiths, University of London, the neurological and philosophical bases for the artistic tastes we as a society hold.

Presented by Zakia Sewell
Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4
(Image credit: Buster Grey Jung)

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