Miriam's Big Fat Adventure

Miriam Margolyes embarks on a journey to work out why the nation is getting ever fatter.

Miriam travels the country to discover why, despite so much information about healthy lifestyles, the nation is at its most overweight ever. She wants to understand what impact being obese has on people, and how the rest of society views them.

With fat threatening to break the NHS, Miriam Margolyes looks at the obesity crisis.

With obesity-related illnesses like high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and certain cancers costing the NHS over 6 billion a year, 78-year-old actress Miriam Margolyes sets out to find out what's being done to combat the obesity crisis.