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THE POWER OF DRINK

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by BRIAN HARRISON
Fellow and Tutor in Politics and History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Victorian pubs, Victorian drinking -they are something of a legend, from Dickens to the music-hall ballads and the temperance tracts. How far does the reality of drink in the Victorian era fit the popular myths?
Broadcast on February 3 (Third)

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