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Thursday, April 11, 2019

TV tonight: self-esteem is stripped bare in Channel 4’s new series

ITV’s current affairs show Tonight gets a retrospective, while the Celebrity Painting Challenge continues. Here’s what to watch this evening Typically for Channel 4, this new series is lurid voyeurism justified by social responsibility. When it comes to body image, Britons suffer desperately low levels of self-esteem. In this experiment devised by mental health expert Natasha Devon and psychologist Dr Keon West, three people who hate their bodies are dispatched to a Greek villa to spend time among people of all sorts so unashamed of their bodies they are happy to go about naked. Will they too strip, and in so doing divest themselves of shame? _David Stubbs_ Continue reading...


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