A Point of View - Empire of Sweat
Adam Gopnik muses on why he'll always love the steam baths in New York.
'My own pet answer,' Adam says, 'justified by intuition and half-heard rumours, is that it helps sleep to have a low internal body temperature. All that sweating lowers my own burning inner furnace and makes me more able to sleep.' This is, he admits, 'a perfectly sound scientific explanation that I have no intention of checking.'
Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Liam Morrey
Editor: Tom Bigwood
Published on Friday, 19th July 2024.
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