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Public service broadcasters are a peculiar form of organisation, corporations in name but extensions of the state that call them into being. They share that distinction with other firms, long since privatised: the PTTs of yore – post, telegraph, and telephone providers – or what were once seen as natural monopolies: water and electricity. But they differ in a crucial and paradoxical regard: Among their functions is to hold the state to account. It is, therefore, a corporate form with the agency problem as part of its reason for being. It is a governance mechanism over its own governors. In liberal democracies, states have come to accept that paradox and tolerate its ambiguities as a condition of state legitimacy. In this paper we ask the question: How does a state broadcast retain its legitimacy when the legitimacy of the state in under question?

395Relationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950 — Effect in English law — Whether part of English law — Whether courts may take account of Convention in determining questions of public policy — Presumption that English law will be compatible with international obligations of the United Kingdom — Effect of presumption on common lawHuman rights — Expression — Freedom of — Restrictions upon — Prior restraint of publications likely to affect proceedings pending before court — Definition of court — Local valuation court — Whether a court for purposes of contempt of court laws — Whether restrictions necessary in a democratic society — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950, Article 10 — The law of England

In this article I draw on an approach - Actor Network Theory - which is well developed within the sociology of science and technology. However, rather than focusing on technical objects in the workplace, I examine food and drink as non-human entities which build, maintain and stabilize links between diverse actants. Using five case study examples I consider what happens when people come together at work around food, and the specific sets of relations between people, activity and organizations that result from this engagement. In doing so I focus on some of the processes through which working bodies are in-corporated into organizational life through emerging food practices; and highlight some of the processes through which working bodies are reconstituted as organizational food practices are in-corporated into the bodies of employees.