EPISODE · Feb 13, 2004 · 13 MIN
How WWI turned slimming into a fashion
from Letter from America: The Bush Jr Years (2001- 2004) · host BBC Radio 4
Alistair Cooke recalls how slimming became fashionable during the food shortages that followed the First World War.
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