A Point of View - The British Vomitorium
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'Are you full yet? Stuffed? Fit to burst?' asks Will Self, as he appeals to the post-Christmas glutton to consider a major lifestyle change in the year ahead.
"Are you full yet? Stuffed? Fit to burst?" asks Will Self as he appeals to the post-Christmas glutton to consider a major lifestyle change in the year ahead.
"What I think we should all do", he says, "is throw up our very obsession with food itself, and enter the New Year purged".
He takes us on a tour of foodie history, and explores how we've gone from being a culinary backwater to "the most food-obsessed nation in Europe - if not the world".
Producer: Adele Armstrong.
- Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 8:50AM Sun, 30 Dec 2012
- Available until 12:00AM Thu, 1 Jan 2099
- First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 8:50PM Fri, 28 Dec 2012
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- Duration 10 minutes
