Hello, it's Kristi Young here and I'm just dropping in to let you know about my new

podcast for BBC Radio 4. It's called Young Again. I'm going to take over to give you

a taste of this new podcast.

Enjoy this clip where I talk to Jamie Oliver.

Thanks for listening.

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to Young again on BBC Sounds.

Actually, I've never actually told anyone this.

So I was born into a pub next to a council estate that was potentially the roughest in the country. It was incredibly rough.

When I say rough I mean violence, bullets, like all sorts of shenanigans and I'm not

exaggerating and as soon as I was born within 36 hours dad was offered up a pub in somewhere he'd never been before in North Essex two hours away so he drove there and had to make all these decisions

with literally me like a week old and we grew up in a little village in Essex

the M11 had I think only just been built, so everyone had proper accents.

All right boy, how's it going everything all right?

It's like a little village and my home and my house was a pub and I thought everything that happened there was normal, but I never realized that mom and dad were pioneers.

Sincerely, like up there.

I left at 18 going,

thanks dad, amazing, love you mom, like see you, I'm going to London, big smoke,

and it took three years for me to realize,

oh, all these things that are contemporary and

cut an edge and call, all these elements of cooking that had kind of bravery and

simplicity and you know and and even I was working at the Neil Street restaurant with

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