TV Dinners

Episode 4 (3x4)

: 28, 1998

Hugh visits two very different clubs: an elderly slimming club in Chichester and a dining club in the ornate surroundings of Hamden House in Buckinghamshire. When you get to the age of 80, you might think that losing weight was not particularly important. But for Marion Postma - or Pozzi to her friends - the weekly meetings of her informal slimming club have become a ritual not to be missed; a ritual that has been going on for 30 years. For Pozzi, it's the little indulgences that make life worthwhile and once in a while, the Monday night weigh-in becomes a waistband-expanding blow-out. When you're the caretaker of a stately home, one of the perks of the job is getting to use the big house occasionally. So when Jonathan Hutchinson and his friends set up a gentleman's luncheon club, where better to hold the lunches than in the Big House? For the eight men, what started out as a casual get-together to watch the horse-racing has now become a formal gathering called "The Other Club". With their wives safely out of the way the members meet half a dozen times a year to indulge in good hearty food and fine wines.