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Free Thinking: 2015 Festival: The Free Thinking Essay

Free Thinking: 2015 Festival: The Free Thinking Essay: Part 8: New Generation Thinkers: Beer and the British Empire

New Generation Thinkers: Beer and the British Empire

Part 8 Part 8: New Generation Thinkers: Beer and the British Empire

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Sam Goodman explores the way beer was used as both beverage and medicine in colonial India

Sam Goodman of the University of Bournemouth explores the benefits of beer-drinking in colonial India and asks how much of its legacy remains today.

From a breakfast drink to start the day to the treatment of bullet-wounds, beer has been a constant accompaniment to British life for centuries. Nowhere was this truer than in Imperial India where beer played a central role in colonial commerce, medicine and leisure. 

Sam Goodman of the University of Bournemouth explores this colonial drinking culture and how many of its habits have lingered to the present day, noting that whilst the Empire might be long gone, British taste for beer has proved remarkably consistent.

The New Generation Thinkers are the winners of an annual scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics at the start of their careers who can turn their research into fascinating broadcasts.

Recording in front of an audience at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead. If you want to hear Sam Goodman discuss his research you can download The Essay and conversation as an Arts and Ideas podcast. 

Producer: Torquil Macleod.

Free Thinking: 2015 Festival

The Free Thinking Essay

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Events from the 2015 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'tearing up the rule book'

Series of events from the 2015 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'tearing up the rule book'

Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers give talks in front of an audience at Free Thinking 2015

Series in which Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers give talks in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead for the 2015 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'tearing up the rule book'

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