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A RADIO presenter was left almost speechless on air when he answered a call from a listener who admitted she was once an unwitting cannibal.

Graham Mack, from TFM, had issued a challenge to listeners to find out the most unusual thing they had eaten.

He had come up with the idea for Monday’s show to coincide with the return of TV’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, which started the previous evening.

He took a flood of calls giving the type of exotic cuisine he had expected, including snails, sea urchins, monkey brains, dog and horse.

But when he received a call from a woman who said she had once eaten human beings, he did not know what to say.

The caller, only known as Anthea, said: “I’ve eaten human being.”

Mr Mack slowly replied: “Oh my goodness. Right, all bets are off. You can’t beat that.

How come you were a cannibal?”

She answered: “It was when I was a child and lived in Africa. We always went to the same butcher and then suddenly – we were there a couple of years – the meat started to get so much better.

“It was only when we moved back to England a couple of years later that we realised that the butcher had been arrested because he farmed little black girls.”

There were gasps in the studio.

Anthea added: “We didn’t know at the time. According to my mum it was very delicious, but not very nice (inaudible).”

Mr Mack replied: “So what do you think it was? You thought it was beef?”

She said: “My mum said yes, she was just buying mince.”

There were further gasps, before someone in the background said: “That’s horrific.”

Mr Mack added: “You are the winner this morning.

Goodness me. I don’t even know what to say. I had no idea we would get this call this morning. Wow.”

Mr Mack, whose most unusual meal was sheep brains in New Zealand, told The Northern Echo yesterday his team had not expected such a call. He said: “We were in shock when we got something like that. You cannot prepare for it.

“Even though she didn’t seem too shocked, she wasn’t condoning it. The circumstances were that she didn’t know at the time. It could have happened to anyone. She was just telling a horrific story.”

TFM is run from Stockton and broadcasts across County Durham and parts of North Yorkshire.