All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry
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{{Infobox television
| image = All In The Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry.png
| genre = Documentary television
| camera =
| runtime = 46 minutes
| director = Neil Crombie
| company =
| producer = Joe Evans
Emily Jeal
Juliet Riddell
| executive_producer = Dinah Lord
| starring = Grayson Perry
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| country = United Kingdom
| location =
| language = English
| network = Channel 4
| first_aired = {{Start date|2012|6|5|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2012|6|19|df=y}}
| num_series = 1
| num_episodes = 3
| list_episodes =
}}
All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry is a 2012 documentary television series on United Kingdom station Channel 4, starring the artist Grayson Perry. The series analysed the ideas of taste held by the different social classes in the United Kingdom. In it, Perry produced a series of six tapestries depicting the taste ideas of Britons, entitled "The Vanity of Small Differences".
Episodes
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|EpisodeNumber=1
|Title=Working Class Taste
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|DirectedBy=Neil Crombie
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|6|5|df=y}}
|ShortSummary=Perry studies working class taste, visiting Sunderland and looking at tattoos, modified cars, cosmetics and football.
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|EpisodeNumber=2
|Title=Middle Class Taste
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|DirectedBy=Neil Crombie
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|6|12|df=y}}
|ShortSummary=Perry studies middle class taste, visiting Royal Tunbridge Wells and Kings Hill.
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|EpisodeNumber=3
|Title=Upper Class Taste
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|DirectedBy=Neil Crombie
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2012|6|19|df=y}}
|ShortSummary=Perry studies upper class taste, visiting the Cotswolds.
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Reception
All In The Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry received very positive reviews from the British press. The Daily Telegraph called it "one of the TV highlights of the year so far".{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9341781/All-in-the-Best-Possible-Taste-with-Grayson-Perry-Channel-4 |title=All In The Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry - Channel 4 |accessdate=25 June 2012 }}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} The Independent described it as "lovely".{{cite news |author=Tom Sutcliffe |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-nights-viewing-all-in-the-best-possible-taste-with-grayson-perry-channel-4-true-love-bbc1-7866508.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120624120625/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-nights-viewing-all-in-the-best-possible-taste-with-grayson-perry-channel-4-true-love-bbc1-7866508.html |archive-date=2012-06-24 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |title=Last night's viewing: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry, Channel 4; True Love, BBC1 - Reviews - TV & Radio |work=The Independent |date=2012-06-20 |accessdate=2013-06-20 |location=London}} The Guardian described it as a "glorious, inspired and incisive investigation into modern British taste".{{cite news |author=Lucy Mangan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/jun/19/best-possible-taste-grayson-perry |title=TV review: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry; Joely Richardson on Shakespeare's Women |work=The Guardian |date=2012-06-19|accessdate=2013-06-20 |location=London}} On 12 May 2013, All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry won a Bafta Specialist Factual award.
References
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External links
- {{cite web |url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/in-the-best-possible-taste-grayson-perry/ |title=In The Best Possible Taste - Grayson Perry |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625090417/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/in-the-best-possible-taste-grayson-perry |archivedate=25 June 2012 }}
- {{IMDb title|2183112}}
Category:2012 British television series debuts