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40 Minutes

on BBC Two England

Andrew Weston-Webb used to be a successful executive with a family and lots of money. Now he's known as the Battersea Bush Man, living entirely on what other people throw away. He scavenges for his food outside markets and makes sculptures from other people's rubbish.
During the filming of this documentary he met an old school foe at a reunion dinner and was forced to re-evaluate his life. He discovered that although it was the break-down of his marriage that prompted him to walk away from his affluent lifestyle, his feelings of "separateness" from the world started in childhood. And it was the behaviour of his parents - in particular his father - which led to him to reject a "normal" life to find some sense of self.

Followed by Sarajevo - a Street under Siege

Contributors

Contributor:
Andrew Weston-Webb
Director:
Joanna Clinton Davis
Editor:
Paul Watson

BBC Two England

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