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Andrew Lawrence: How Did We End Up Like This?

Andrew Lawrence: How Did We End Up Like This?: Episode 1: Dietary Practices

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Episode 1

Episode 1: Dietary Practices

Dietary Practices

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Sketches, stand-up and song in a comic explanation of our development.

Sketches, stand-up and song in a comic explanation of our development. With Andrew Lawrence and Sara Pascoe. From October 2012.

Andrew Lawrence, kicks off his comic explanation of our development via stand up, sketch and song. 

In this opening episode, Andrew looks at what goes in to making our diet: "what we shove in our mouths, dissolve in our guts and shunt out of our poo pipes".

Including a rather different view of fair trade, a comment on road-kill as food and a moving song about the extinction of the Mammoth. 

Sara Pascoe and Marek Larwood assist. 

Producer: Jane Berthoud

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2012.

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Comic explanation of human development via stand-up, song and sketch

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