From The Vault: Dame Prue Leith

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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James has brought back another incredible guest from the Full Disclosure vault this week. He's revisiting his 2019 interview with Dame Prue Leith, star judge on the Great British Bake Off. Prue has lived an incredible life. She grew up in South Africa during the Apartheid era, then moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne before making a name for herself as a restaurateur in London. She's gone on to become a food writer and broadcaster on shows including the Great British Menu and the Great British Bake Off.

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0:51.6	Okay. is a global player original podcast. Hello and welcome to Full Disclosure, a podcast project which altogether now was conceived chiefly to allow me to spend more time with interesting people than I would ever get on my radio show.
1:03.4	And since it started back in 2019, you know that I've had some incredible guests that we are this week and last week revisiting, partly because I'm so
1:11.9	busy promoting my new book, How They Broke Britain, which is published by Penguin and Out
1:16.9	Now. I wanted, though, to take a moment to look back at some of my favourite guests, and Dame
1:21.8	Prue Leith really stood out, possibly, because I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I knew she was a
1:27.3	doyen of cookery books
1:29.0	and that she had become rather late in life a star on the Great British Bake Off. But unlike quite a lot
1:34.6	of full disclosure guests, I didn't know much more about her. And it turned out there was a heck of a lot
1:39.9	to learn. She goes back much further, obviously, than her current fame. And her early life,
1:45.1	her novels, the broadcasting, the campaigning, it all comes together like a recipe to create a
1:50.4	glorious result. So have a listen to this. We talk about her childhood growing up during the
1:55.1	apartheid era in South Africa and much, much more.
2:03.1	Let's begin at the beginning then.
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