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Season 1 Episode 506: The Banana

Tonight's programme considers musa sapientum, the fruit of the wise. The Velvet Underground's John Cale tells the story behind Andy Warhol's famous LP cover, Auberon Waugh and John Walters recall their first encounters with the fruit after the war and footballer Brendan Batson considers how they became a symbol of racism hurled from the terraces.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

3

Episodes:

689

Quality:

HD

Status:

Returning Series

First Air:

1975

IMDb:

7.2