Edwardian Supersize Me | The Supersizers

Duration: 58'57''

Synopsis

Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins spend the week on the diet of a wealthy Edwardian couple, being catered to by cookery writer Sophie Grigson.

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