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Why do we eat unhealthy snacks in the cinema?
Peter Curran investigates the history and psychology of our 100 year-old compulsion to consume snacks and movies at the same time. Why popcorn? Why eat at all?
First broadcast on Inconspicuous Consumption, 19 January 2017.
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