This week, we discuss the TV show 'Love is Blind: UK'. It’s one of Netflix’s most popular reality series. The show follows singles as they flirt through a wall and fall in love without seeing each other first. They are only allowed to meet face-to-face once they are engaged. What does the show's popularity say about modern dating, and where reality TV is today? Why do we indulge in 'guilty pleasures'? Guest host Lulu Smyth is joined by HTSI deputy editor Louis Wise and the FT magazine’s food and drink editor Harriet Fitch Little to find out.

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Links (all FT links get you past the paywall):

– Harriet’s guest host podcast about how to make the perfect martini is here.

– Harriet’s recommendation is set dinners, and she recommends Quality Wines in Farringdon.

– Lulu recommends a random literary pilgrimage. For John Milton fangirls, keep an eye out for Orlando Reade’s book 'What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost', out in November 2024.

– Harriet Fitch-Little is on Instagram @huffffle and on X @HarrietFL.

– Louis Wise is on Instagram @louisquinze and on X @louismwise.

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