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My Big Fat Gypsy Christening

This special episode explores the Traveller and Gypsy community's unique approach toward birth and death, revealing a world with its own strict rules of conduct. Gypsies and Travellers celebrate communions and weddings with their own traditions and spectacular style,but these are not the only events in the life cycle that are marked and celebrated. This programme explores attitudes concerning birth and death, revealing a world in which pregnancy comes with its own strict rules of conduct, where breastfeeding is considered shameful by some, and where a funeral is an event planned with as much energy as the very biggest weddings, drawing crowds of hundreds.

English
  • Originally Aired October 2, 2013
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Network Channel 4
  • Created May 27, 2014 by
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