C4 8 May 2007; rpt More4 Sun 3 June 10pm
Tony Blair wants to stem the tide of beer, sick and blood and take us back to a golden age of civility and good-manners. But history contradicts him. The first law to control English binge-drinking was passed in 616 AD ... the English have been violent, binge-drinking hooligans for more than a thousand years.
Tony Blair wants to stem the tide of beer, sick and blood and take us back to a golden age of civility and good-manners. But history contradicts him. The first law to control English binge-drinking was passed in 616 AD ... the English have been violent, binge-drinking hooligans for more than a thousand years.
In The Seven Sins of England, real-life hoodies, binge-drinkers and chavs deliver the authentic words of 11th century binge-drinkers, Edwardian yobs, Elizabethan xenophobes and 17th-century hooligans in this recreation of historical 'chavvery'.
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 Quotes used in the programme. Read on >>
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 Images of the 'chavs', 'slappers' and 'hoodies'. View gallery >>
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