4.4 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:04.9 | Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Disks Podcast. |
0:08.8 | Every week I ask my guests to choose the 8 tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take |
0:13.3 | with them if they were cast away to a desert island. |
0:16.7 | And for right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast. |
0:20.9 | I hope you enjoy listening. |
0:45.2 | My cast away this week is the chef, illustrator, writer and broadcaster, Dame Proulieith. |
0:51.4 | She'd already forged a formidable reputation in culinary circles and was contemplating |
0:55.9 | a quieter life when, in 2017, everything changed. |
1:00.4 | She was invited to become a judge on the Great British Bake-Off. |
1:04.0 | She was 77, an age when women don't get offered a slot on primetime television, let alone |
1:08.8 | a show which regularly attracts many millions of viewers. |
1:12.2 | She quickly won a new generation of fans with her vibrant eyewear, pithy observations, |
1:17.3 | an on-screen chemistry with fellow Judge Paul Hollywood. |
1:21.0 | She fell in love with food as a young woman, not in her native South Africa, but in Paris |
1:25.5 | in the early 60s. |
1:27.0 | She moved to London to study at the Cordon Bleau Cookery School and set up a catering |
1:31.1 | business from her bed sit. |
1:33.0 | It was a success despite the occasional disaster, like the time she left a swarry as |
1:37.2 | worth of live lobsters on the Picardilly Line. |
1:40.3 | She opened her first restaurant in 1969, which she followed with a cookery school. |
1:45.0 | Her broadcasting career started with a two-minute slot on the today programme here on Radio |
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