British TV station to show man eating dead baby
LONDON - Britain\'s Channel 4 television, which recently broadcast the country\'s first public autopsy in 170 years, is to show a Chinese man eating the flesh of a dead baby, says a British newspaper.
The bizarre act will be shown in a documentary called Beijing Swings, which looks at extreme practices of Chinese artistes, The Guardian reported yesterday.
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The programme, to be shown on British screens late on Thursday, also shows a man drinking wine that has had an amputated penis marinaded in it.
\'The programme will be controversial and will shock some viewers but a warning will be given before it goes out on air,\' a Channel 4 spokesman was quoted as saying.
Viewers will see stills of Mr Zhu Yu biting into a stillborn child. He says on the programme: \'No religion forbids cannibalism. Nor can I find any law which prevents us from eating people.
\'I took advantage of the space between morality and the law and based my work on it,\' Zhu said.
On Nov 20, Channel 4, which is a free-to-air terrestrial channel, filmed a maverick German doctor, Professor Gunther von Hagens, carrying out Britain\'s first public autopsy in nearly two centuries, despite a public outcry and threats of police action.
The autopsy was performed on the corpse of a 72-year-old German man who had drunk up to two bottles of whisky a day and was a heavy smoker for the last 50 years of his life. --AFP
