Birmingham Book Festival

Coca-Cola and its logo are everywhere.
It is a company that sponsors the Olympics, has a $96 million museum in its honour and even re-brands Santa Claus. With 1.4 billion of its products consumed daily, Coke is a worldwide phenomenon.

The UK’s foremost political comedian and activist takes a journey to ‘Live on the Coke side of life’, and boy do they wish they could send him back…

Belching out the Devil is a staggeringly entertaining look at one of the world’s most recognised and controversial brands.

From Istanbul to Mexico City, Mark travels the globe investigating the stories and talking to the people that aren’t part of Coke’s iconic advertising campaigns. Mark Thomas campaigning brand of comedy-spanning TV, stage and print-has been a thorn in the side of many politicians and corporations, and has resulted in him being awarded a UN Global Human Rights Defender Award and a Kurdish National Congress Medal of Honour amongst other citations. This is his second book, following the tremendous popularity of his first, As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela.

We are delighted to welcome Mark to the Festival to talk about the journey behind the book and the shocking discoveries within. 

Supported by Ebury.