How a long-forgotten suicide helped define reality TV voyeurism

In 1999, the Dutch series ‘Big Brother’ seemed to invent reality television as we know it. In truth, a little-known Swedish series laid its foundations two years earlier – as did the tragic death of one of its contestants, writes Eloise Hendy

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