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Booze now has its own Rest is History-style podcast

Plus: a BBC Radio 4 series that allows us to do what so many galleries have stopped us from doing

Daisy Dunn
Fleming’s Vesper cocktail reminded me of just how supernatural Bond used to be. PHOTO: GARY FRIEDMAN / LOS ANGELES TIMES / GETTY IMAGES
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 08 February 2025
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Intoxicating History is the perfect title for drinks expert Henry Jeffreys and food critic Tom Parker Bowles’s new podcast. Its theme is alcohol, but its contents are predominantly historical, which is good news if, like me, you are quick to apply the word ‘bore’ to any man who talks about wine for more than eight minutes.

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