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The Protein Man: London's Most Famous Non-Famous Eccentric


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Join Hari and Kimi as they delve into the extraordinary life of Stanley Green, a man who patrolled Oxford Street for 25 years with a sandwich board preaching "protein wisdom!"

Discover how this "human billboard" became a London icon, and how his obsession with low-protein diets and dampened libidos led to his self-published pamphlets, his run-ins with the law, and his eventual recognition in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Was he a visionary, a crank, or something else entirely? Tune in to find out!

Original Wikipedia source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stanley_Green

Creative Commons License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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