Oz Clarke tells children that drinking is heavenly

By Richard Eden 1050PM GMT thirteen March 2010

Oz Clarke, the BBC presenter, says young kids need to sense how to get drunk. Photo CHRISTINE BOYD

It is doubtful to win him any fans in the Government, but the broadcaster Oz Clarke says young kids need to sense how to get drunk.

"I have rather great friends in the Department of Health who positively rip their hair out about the domestic exactness [there] now," he told Mandrake at the Television and Radio Industries Club awards, at the Grosvenor House road residence in Mayfair. "Things similar to these units of alcohol, they were plucked out of the air."

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Clarke, who won a esteem for Oz and James Drink to Britain, the BBC array that he presents with James May, a columnist on The Daily Telegraph, combined "Kingsley Amis, I think it was, pronounced "getting dipsomaniac is heavenly, being dipsomaniac is hell". It is positively right. The one thing about celebration is you"ve got to sense how to do it. You can"t only go in as a little full of blood child and contend "let"s hoover behind the vodka".

"Learning how to do it is piece of flourishing up. Growing up is about risk; dare; challenge; mistakes. James and I do hold we are station up in this rather politically scold universe where unexpected people are observant "you mustn"t splash and you mustn"t have fun"."