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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: The UK Reality Show “Shattered” Was Essentially A Sleep Deprivation Contest On TV
Description: Twenty years ago today, Channel Four in the UK first aired "Shattered," a show where contestants tried to stay awake the longest to win a grand prize. Plus: this month in 1970, German artist Wolf Vostell unveiled a work in Chicago in which he'd taken a 1957 Cadillac and encased it in concrete.
Shattered: legacy of a reality TV experiment in extreme sleep deprivation (The Guardian)
VOSTELL CONCRETE 1969–1973 JANUARY 1 (Smart Museum of Art)
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