Ep. 61 – MARK FORSYTH – A Short History Of Drunkenness – INTERVIEW SPECIAL.

The Lovejoy Hour

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Society & Culture, Football, Sports

4.6 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to author Mark Forsyth about his book 'A Short History of Drunkenness'. They discuss how alcohol has been a part of our lives even before we were humans, drunk monkeys falling out of trees and prohibition. If you would like to contact us then our email address is [email protected] or you can tweet Tim @timlovejoy

You can find Mark on Twitter here –
@Inkyfool

And his book is available here –
goo.gl/UA5Njg

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear Lovejoy and today is another special.
0:06.0	Today I'm going to be having a conversation with Mark Forsyth.
0:09.6	Mark Forsyth is usually better known for his take on the English language.
0:15.8	He likes to talk about that.
0:16.8	He's come on Sunday brunch a few times.
0:18.6	But he's written a book called a short history of drunkenness
0:21.9	uh mark you enjoyed the conversation didn't oh that was so great i loved that that was because that
0:29.2	was just that encapsulated the whole of sort of history or human history just in a really
0:35.6	interesting way taking one little element out of it.
0:38.4	And I was, because you hadn't actually, I hadn't seen your interview.
0:42.6	And I was going, oh, I hope they talk about prohibition.
0:44.3	I hope they talk.
0:44.9	And you did.
0:45.7	And I find that topic so fascinating.
0:48.4	Yeah.
0:48.7	So he talks about ancient Greece.
0:50.1	And he talks about Rome.
0:50.9	And he talks about Egypt.
0:53.1	He talks about old prohibition and say animals and alcohol.
0:57.5	Any podcast that features drunk monkeys has got to be brilliant.
1:01.3	How great's that?
1:02.2	What's fascinating I think about alcohol is the fact that it's been so important in human history.
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