Ep 3: Britain Off Its Head

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Ep 3: Britain Off Its Head

By: Stephen Fry, John Woolf, Nick Baker
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
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Despite the government’s efforts to control drinking and drug abuse, narcotics were widely available, and alcohol was widely abused. Women were at the centre of shocking behaviour over both, and predictably the press was suitably scandalised.

We introduce the nightclub queen who employed ‘292 women of the unfortunate class’.

Further Reading: Dope Girls by Marek Kohn

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