We're baaaack! And we're feeling FIT, while also reassuring you that it's what's inside that counts.
Kasia and Dan return with a new series, where today we're talking about the beauty industry, vanity and gender, and - following a Cursed Objects outing to the Wellcome Collection's new exhibition The Cult of Beauty - early modern German wife-prettying windmill technology.
From the masterful make-up artists of Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star to the hall of rubbish mirrors of the Palace of Versailles, this episode has it all. We also hear about the beauty industry exhibits in the Museum of Transology – as liberatory objects that affirm a sense of self in a culture that would too often deny it to trans people.
Also: if pretty privilege is really a thing, shouldn’t the parliamentary Conservative Party be a party of hotties?
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Theme music and production: Mr Beatnick
Artwork: Archie Bashford
*PREVIEW* - The Walter Benjamin Escape Town
Bulldog Power Energy Drink
*PREVIEW* Summer of strikes / when the lights go out
A Jubilee Catastrophe
*PREVIEW* - The secular church of the NHS
*PREVIEW* - Magna Carta dart board aka Mythic Albion
Gay Flags and Lavender Scares ft. Huw Lemmey
Alien Eggs, UFOs and Conspiracy Theories for the End of History
Canary Wharf, grime and the docks
Manly Gifts for the Man In Your Life
Brand Collabs (Travis Scott x McDonalds x Peppa Pig x Colgate x BAE Systems exclusive)
Abigail’s Aspic Asparagus Steamer (and other 70s dinner parties)
Van Gogh ”Earaser” - ft. Alice Procter
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Mystical algorithms
Celeb CASH-IN!! Unofficial Fearne Cotton biography
Sexy Putin Calendar
Cursed Objects - Series 2 Trailer
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