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ALWAYS TAKE SOME BRANDY

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

Baedeker advised the Edwardian never to go anywhere without a bottle of brandy for emergencies.
LORD NORWICH takes a look at some more advice which his guidebooks offered to travellers fifty years ago

Source: Radio Times

BBC Home Service Basic

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