My fatpol friends may be interested in this new series on Radio 4 on the history of obesity. It's the first of a series of four, and I thought it was pretty good.
He's definitely the weakest contributor, but not particularly prominent. The one false note in the programme that I noticed was when he said wrt 19th-century freak shows something along the lines of "It's shocking to us now that people would actually pay money to look at these fat children" - clearly forgetting the existence of Channel 5. But the programme covered that angle by the end.
I've listened and made notes and am mulling it over. (I find info received aurally far harder to analyse.)
My immediate reactions are that Haslam's comments are dramatically contradictory of the tone in his book, and that the programme lacks context (though the series as a whole could address the latter point).
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Date: 2010-08-18 07:54 am (UTC)Anyway, I'd be interested to know what you think
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Date: 2010-08-22 08:06 am (UTC)My immediate reactions are that Haslam's comments are dramatically contradictory of the tone in his book, and that the programme lacks context (though the series as a whole could address the latter point).