#17 - Love Island: A genius show that combines our need for a companion with a much darker side of humanity

NEON: The Real History Behind Popular Culture

24-06-2018 • 39 mins

How can an unscripted reality show, largely filled with vacuous individuals teach us history? For this one NEON goes way back and talks about the biological reason for finding a mate as opposed to the way strawberries or starfish can do it on their own. Finding a mate defines most of the natural world and a lot of human history too and Love Island shows us this. Add to that the dark under belly of human emotion enjoying mocking those less fortunate and you find out a lot about how the show works and about your own psychology in this episode.


Written & Presented by Jem Duducu

Produced by Dan Morelle

Music: Kwabs - Wrong or Right

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