11Lifestyle Magazines and Television

In this chapter we:

  • concentrate on ‘lifestyle’ magazines and in particular those aimed at women readers
  • look at ‘lads’ mags’ such as Nuts
  • examine lifestyle television programmes, in particular cookery programmes.

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Figure 11.1 Nigella Lawson

imageWebsite Activity 11.1: Magazine reading habits.

Estimates of the number of magazine titles available in Britain vary between 8,000 and 10,000, of which about half are consumer and lifestyle magazines. According to the Periodical Publishers Association (http://www.ppa.co.uk ...

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