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Dame Prue Leith, writer and broadcaster

Desert Island Discs

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What Is Your Fourth Choice to Day?

When you were 20, you persuaded your father to let you go to the sorbon. What food discoveries did you make there? I think what i discovered most an what was most important, was the fact that food was important. You know, the french talk about food all the time. Everybody talks about food. And it hadn't occurred to me that people took that much trouble over shopping. My mother used to just order it all on the telephone. Food was just taken seriously. Si, your fourth choice to day? What is it and why you've taken it with you to the island? It's odd, because my mother was such a cultured woman, and she sang rather well,

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