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‘Common Sense Slimming’ - How the contribution of Joan Robins, television’s ‘afternoon cook’, was not the perfect-fit for the culture of the BBC in the 1950s (2022)
Journal Article
Geddes, K. (2022). ‘Common Sense Slimming’ - How the contribution of Joan Robins, television’s ‘afternoon cook’, was not the perfect-fit for the culture of the BBC in the 1950s. Critical Studies in Television, 17(3), 254-268. https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020221103469

Cooking on television after WWII mainly addressed ‘the housewife’ audience, while women themselves were presenting television cooking programmes. History has largely forgotten the presenter Joan Robins, who appeared alongside Philip Harben and Margue... Read More about ‘Common Sense Slimming’ - How the contribution of Joan Robins, television’s ‘afternoon cook’, was not the perfect-fit for the culture of the BBC in the 1950s.

“The man in the kitchen”. Boulestin and Harben: Representation, gender, celebrity, and business in the early development of television cooking programmes in Britain (2022)
Book Chapter
Geddes, K. (2022). “The man in the kitchen”. Boulestin and Harben: Representation, gender, celebrity, and business in the early development of television cooking programmes in Britain. In A. Tominc (Ed.), Food and Cooking on Early Television in Europe: Impact on Postwar Foodways. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429327995-2

The proliferation of television cooking programmes can be seen as a ‘modern’ phenomenon (see Collins, 2009; DeBacker and Hudders, 2015; DeSolier, 2005; Ketchum, 2005), with only a light knowledge of their history in Britain documented. Much of the re... Read More about “The man in the kitchen”. Boulestin and Harben: Representation, gender, celebrity, and business in the early development of television cooking programmes in Britain.