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Television

Funny, tender and properly horrible: Channel 4’s Adult Material reviewed

10 October 2020

9:00 AM

10 October 2020

9:00 AM

Adult Material

Channel 4, Mondays

Between the Covers

BBC2, Fridays

Urban Myths

Sky Arts, Wednesdays

A woman is eating a pie in her car as it gets an automatic wash. Careful to keep the pie out of shot, she then films herself on her phone pretending to have an orgasm, posts the clip online and drives to work. Once there, she’s constantly distracted by thoughts of domestic chores (‘Whites tonight, colours in the morning, hang them out before the school run’) — which mightn’t be so unusual, except that her work consists of having sex.

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