''Oz and James Drink to Britain'' is a

BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...

television series in which wine writer

Oz Clarke Robert Owen Clarke (born 1949), known as Oz Clarke, is a British wine writer, actor, television presenter and broadcaster. Early life Clarke's parents were a chest physician and a nursing sister. He is of Irish descent and was brought up Roma ...

and motor journalist

James May James Daniel May (born 16 January 1963) is an English television presenter and journalist. He is best known as a co-presenter, alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, of the motoring programme ''Top Gear (2002 TV series), Top Gear'' fr ...

travel through Britain and Ireland to discover the array of available alcoholic drinks. The series is a sequel to '' Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure'', and followed the same format, with the established dynamic between Clarke and May of bickering and bantering while

drinking alcohol Alcohol, sometimes referred to by the chemical name ethanol, is the active ingredient in alcoholic drinks such as beer, wine, and distilled spirits (hard liquor). Alcohol is a central nervous system (CNS) depressant, decreasing electrical ...

. The chosen vehicle of this series is a 1982

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convertible. Upon broadcast the first episode had a viewership of approximately 3.4 million with an average audience share of 15%.Holmwood, Leigh, ''The Guardian'' (7 January 2009)
TV ratings: Claire Sweeney weight gain show pulls in 3.2 million
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Episode list

DVD

The DVD of ''Oz and James Drink to Britain'', which contains footage not featured on the original BBC broadcasts, was released in the UK on 16 March 2009.

U.S. Broadcast

The series was also broadcast on

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, renamed "James May Drinks to Britain."

References

External links

* Drink to Britain BBC television documentaries 2009 British television series debuts 2009 British television series endings British English-language television shows Television series about alcohol {{BBC-documentary-tv-prog-stub