Emma Major's Gin Drinking in BBC top ten

Posted on 4 May 2017

'The Gin Craze' is voted one of Radio 4's 'In Our Time' top ten broadcasts.

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'The Gin Craze', in which Melvyn Bragg and guests, including the Department's Emma Major, discuss the cause and impact of the gin craze in the 18th century, is voted one of Radio 4's 'In Our Time' top ten broadcasts.

'The Gin Craze' was broadcast on 15th December 2016. You can listen to this programme, and any (or all) of the other nine, via BBC iplayer Radio.

'The Gin Craze' was also the subject of an earlier Department News feature, posted on 16th December 2016.