The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less

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JR: The night I stopped, what followed was really hard, traumatic work. But that first feeling was complete relief. It was like I’d stepped out of the boxing ring. That relief, I never have to think about whether I can drink again, because I’ve decided not to. Books telling us to give up drinking are 10 a penny, but how about something for those of us who like a social drink but are occasionally worried that two turn into four rather too easily? That’s where Adrian Chiles’s likable and highly readable memoir of his relationship with booze comes in. He writes that “the vast majority of drinkers like me believe they are not problem drinkers”. He details his experiences in cutting down, to comic and insightful effect, and skilfully but never preachingly, offers suggestions for others, too. The Little Blue Flames Opening in 1963 New York, to Renaissance Florence, to the birth of theatre in fifth-century Athens, and the Sex Pistols shattering Thatcherite Britain - take your seat for the history of performance.Adrian Chiles, author, broadcaster, columnist, and for these purposes, longtime dispenser of searching but practical thoughts on booze, met comedian John Robins when they were making adjacent shows on Radio 5 Live. After Chiles made his documentary, Drinkers Like Me, at the start of 2021, the pair got talking. In January 2018, he was moved to Fridays only and the title was changed to Chiles on Friday, with Emma Barnett hosting from Monday to Thursday under the title The Emma Barnett Show, although the content remains essentially the same. HowTheTricolorGotItsStripes is a highly entertaining and likeable history of flags by Ukrainian ex-cabinet Minister Dmytro Dubilet and was originally published in Ukrainian 🇺🇦 JR: If I could drink 36 units a week without it driving me to the edge of sanity, I would do that. But I can’t. A really important part of accepting my alcoholism was understanding I can never drink like that. I will never be a “normal” drinker.

This captivating A-Z compendium by #KateSummerscale explores the world in 99 obsessions - from spiders to clowns to all that will make your skin crawl. In August 2018, Chiles presented a BBC Two documentary entitled Drinkers Like Me in which he admitted to regularly drinking in excess of 100 units of alcohol per week [16] and investigated why alcohol had become such a big part of his life. As part of the programme, a doctor carried out a Fibroscan liver test on him, which produced a score of 8.9, indicating mild/moderate fibrosis of the liver and significant hepatic steatosis.AC: I think people are led to believe that moderation isn’t possible: that if you successfully moderate, it’s because you didn’t have much of a problem in the first place. Otherwise, the ideas are very binary. People will stop you in the street and say: “I hear you’re on the wagon,” or: “Are you a friend of Bill’s?” or: “Are you still off the booze?” It doesn’t even occur to people that there could be a middle ground, either you’re completely befuddled and drunk the whole time, or you’re completely sober. AC: Even if you take it that alcoholism exists, and there is such a thing as an alcoholic – and clinically, my understanding is that it doesn’t really exist, but I’ve stopped arguing against it – my issue has always been that if you can stop, then you drink with impunity. That was very damaging to me, because it meant that I could go on drinking 100 units a week, thinking that was fine. Alcohol was the handrail, the stairs and the destination’ … John Robins. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian Iaith ar Daith 'Dolig"[Language Road Trip: Christmas]. Boom Cymru. Archived from the original on 31 January 2021 . Retrieved 31 January 2021. Adrian Chiles 'horrified' at drinking 100 alcohol units a week". BBC News. 21 August 2018 . Retrieved 10 September 2018.