Synopsis
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and comedian Sue Perkins grab their ration books for one week and chomp their way through the food of 1940s WWII Britain.
- Programme: The Supersizers
- Episode: Wartime
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2008
- History
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