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Review: Horizon: How violent are you?

By Liz Else

22 April 2009

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Michael Portillo takes on a local man in unarmed combat, as part of a Festival in Bolivia. This was Portillo’s first physical fight, undertaken to test the theory that the hormones released during combat can be pleasurable

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Horizon: How Violent Are You? – Documentary on BBC2 in the UK, currently scheduled for 5 May

AFTER 60 hours of little sleep, tending crying twins and trying to hold down a job, Michael is tense and becoming a bit paranoid.

Luckily for this seemingly unenviable fellow, he is in fact taking part in a TV experiment. He is Michael Portillo,…

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