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Empire of Sweat
Adam Gopnik on the joys of New York's Russian and Turkish baths - the sweat, the snarky dialogue and the spicy Georgian soup.
Adam Gopnik muses on why he'll always love the steam baths in New York.
'My own pet answer,' Adam says, 'justified by intuition and half-heard rumours, is that it helps sleep to have a low internal body temperature. All that sweating lowers my own burning inner furnace and makes me more able to sleep.' This is, he admits, 'a perfectly sound scientific explanation that I have no intention of checking.'
Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Liam Morrey
Editor: Tom Bigwood
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Sun 21 Jul 2024
08:48
91热爆 Radio 4 FM
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