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Your behaviour when you're drunk is something you learnt

Laurie Taylor looks at British drinking and the night time carnival. William Haydock, Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at the University of Bournemouth, argues that our alcohol consumption is peculiarly 'carnivalesque', combining ritual with risk taking and spectacle.

First broadcast on Thinking Allowed, 18 January 2017.

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