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BBC Radio 2 Book Club REVIEW

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May 18 2011
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If you like this blog, you’ll love ‘A Brit Different’, but don’t just take my word for it.

Listen to what Ian McMillan (presenter of The Verb on Radio 3) had to say about it in the final gathering of the Radio 2 Book Club in 2010, as he joined Simon Mayo to discuss some of his favourite books of the year.

Here were his comments as posted on BBC Radio 2 website afterwards:

“This book is full of joy and delight and glee and eccentricity. It’s an illustrated book of ridiculous British competitions, from The World Pea Shooting Championships in Cambridgeshire to The Mince Pie Eating Championship in Wookey, Somerset, via the Ossett World Coal Carrying Championships…”

 

 

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The vast majority of posts in this blog are about quirky & eccentric competitions & festivals. I started it in 2006 in France with a competition I’ll never forget. Where contestants battle it out to become the World Champion Pig Squeeler, or ‘Cri du Cochon’. I had little knowledge back then of quite how far my pursuit of these kind of events would lead me. I’ve travelled all over Britain (and occasionally further afield) to capture our curiosities and quirks. There’s nothing uniquely eccentric about the British, you’ll find people all over the world up to all sorts of weird and wonderful activities, but we do have a remarkable capacity to embrace the madness. ‘A Brit Different’ is the book that was born from it, my labour of love! So what next? There’s always something interesting going on, so watch this space, only time will tell!

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