As heard on BBC Radio 4
'Likeable and highly readable ... comic and insightful' Observer
'An easy read mixture of wit and wisdom ... should be read by all who drink more than the limit'
Prof David Nutt, author of Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health
The popular broadcaster and columnist sets out to discover the unsung pleasures of drinking in moderation.
The recommended alcohol limit is 14 units a week. Adrian Chiles used to put away almost 100. Ever since he was a teenager, drinking was his idea of a good time - and not just his, but seemingly the whole nation's. Still, it wasn't very good for him: the doctor made that clear. If you lined them up, Adrian must have knocked back three miles of drinks. How many of them had he genuinely wanted? A mile?
There's an awful lot of advice out there on how to quit booze completely. If you just want to drink a bit less, the pickings are slim. Yet while the alcohol industry depends on a minority of problem drinkers, the majority really do enjoy in moderation. What's their secret? Join the inimitable Chiles as he sets out around Britain and plumbs his only slightly fuzzy memories of a lifetime in pubs in a quest to find the good drinker within.
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Social SciencesTable of contents
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Two important points
- Two blokes in two streets and a bloke who wrote a book
- My starting point
- Looking back
- Early years
- What qualifies me to write this book
- Units, and counting the bloody things
- Why not stop completely?
- Getting served
- A drink problem? Me?
- Urge surfing
- What happened when I went to an AA meeting
- Drink Like Helen B. Merry
- His name is Bryn and he is a moderator
- Gap year
- 14 Units a week? Impossible!
- University
- Her name is Llana and she is a moderator
- Why the health warnings don’t apply to me
- Underage again
- Moderation is hard
- Twenties
- His name is John and he is a moderator
- For the love of drinking, drink less
- Thirties
- Beige
- What I wish more doctors would say
- Vicky and Tim
- My boozing bucket list
- Forties
- A pint under a hawthorn tree
- What I learned from Lee Mack (or, ‘It could all be a giant con’)
- Something Roy Keane said
- Her name is Marisa and she is a moderator
- Shahroo and kindness
- At the races
- That first drink
- A funny feeling
- Work in progress
- Thanks
- Copyright
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