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Charles Pegge
18-07-2010, 02:30
The Diabolical Gourmet
A dark comedy about a gourmet who dined his victims to death at the finest restaurants of 1790s Paris
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t0fzn
BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play (online for 5 days only)
danbaron
18-07-2010, 06:30
[font=courier new][size=8pt]I can't listen to it, because of my slow connection.
But, for some reason the idea reminds me of a little story by one of our native authors.
http://poestories.com/read/amontillado
And, how about this one to lift the spirits?!!
http://poestories.com/read/houseofusher
:oops: :x :twisted:
Charles Pegge
18-07-2010, 12:38
Dining For Your Country
..more food for thought:
Diplomatic Dinners
BBC News October 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6034687.stm
Petr Schreiber
18-07-2010, 14:35
Just finished the Diabolical Gourmet,
I think it was not good idea to listen this after lunch...
I would never belive such a thing would happen for real.
Petr
Charles Pegge
18-07-2010, 15:50
I know what you mean Petr, even before lunch the thought of working one's way through the restaurant menu followed by fourteen steaks left me feeling a little queasy. But this play is claimed to be based on a true story. Perhaps Monsieur Gourier was a human crocodile.
With this onslaught of flesh and fat I don't know which organ fails first: Liver or heart?
Charles
LanceGary
18-07-2010, 23:40
I know what you mean Petr, even before lunch the thought of working one's way through the restaurant menu followed by fourteen steaks left me feeling a little queasy. But this play is claimed to be based on a true story. Perhaps Monsieur Gourier was a human crocodile.
With this onslaught of flesh and fat I don't know which organ fails first: Liver or heart?
Charles
Ah - a Vampire story. The cure involves driving a steak through a person's heart?
Lance