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The Kitchen: art, film, life

Matthew Sweet and guests on how the kitchen space has changed from ancient hearths to open plan living, picking out examples from feminist art and kitchen sink film and dramas.

In the Kitchen (washing machine) 1977 is an art work by Helen Chadwick being displayed at the Hepworth Wakefield, whilst Carrie Mae Weems' images called Kitchen Table Series 1990 are coming to a Barbican show. Art critic Sarah Kent joins New Generation Thinker and archaeologist Marianne Hem Eriksen, film scholar Melanie Williams, whose latest book looks at Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, and journalist and writer Angela Hui, whose memoir is called Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter, for a conversation about kitchens from the ancient hearth to kitchen sink realism. Matthew Sweet is the chef in charge.

Producer: Julian Siddle

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44 minutes

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Thu 15 Jun 2023 22:00

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  • Thu 15 Jun 2023 22:00

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