Jamie Oliver Guest Edits Today
Best of Today
BBC
4.0 • 837 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Today's second guest editor this Christmas is Jamie Oliver, the chef, entrepreneur and campaigner. Hear highlights from his programme in our Best of Today podcast, including interviews with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, and former Conservative Chancellor George Osborne about expanding free lunches in schools and providing a healthy array of options for students. Jamie Oliver has been open about his struggles in school with dyslexia. He says he was told he was taught alongside those with special needs. Jamie wanted to speak to the rapper Loyle Carner, who has ADHD about his struggles at school and what food means to him.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, Jamie Oliver here. I hope you're all really, really well. Very exciting news. I'm going to be |
| 0:04.8 | guest editing the Today Program on Radio 4. BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. Hello and welcome to |
| 0:13.9 | the best of today. I'm Nick Robinson. At this time of the year, we do something a little bit different |
| 0:19.5 | on the Today program. |
| 0:26.9 | We invite people to be our guest editors. Now, we're still in charge of the program. The Today program still produces and edits the items in it. But we invite people, like today's guest editor, |
| 0:33.5 | the chef, the entrepreneur and campaigner, Jamie Oliver, to suggest some of the less |
| 0:39.6 | newsy items, the items that go around what is happening anyway in the news agenda. |
| 0:46.6 | Jamie burst onto our screens as the Naked Chef when the TV show of that name arrived |
| 0:52.3 | when he was just 24 years old. |
| 0:55.6 | Make is what I call my way of cooking. |
| 0:57.4 | What I cook in the restaurant isn't what I cook at home. |
| 1:00.9 | Cooking's got to be a laugh. |
| 1:02.2 | It's got to be simple. It's got to be tasty. It's got to be fun. |
| 1:06.9 | That was back in 1999. |
| 1:09.1 | And in that year, Jamie was invited to prepare lunch for the then Prime Minister Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street. |
| 1:16.2 | We'll hear from him a little bit later on. |
| 1:18.9 | Not long after that meeting, Jamie began to campaign on the need to improve the quality and the availability of school dinners and better child nutrition. |
| 1:29.1 | Kids in England today know what a turkey twisler is more than a chicken breast. |
| 1:33.8 | Jamie also went on to campaign for a sugar tax and a ban on junk food advertising. |
| 1:39.6 | Jamie now wants free school lunches to be extended to all children whose parents are on universal credit, |
| 1:45.4 | not just the very poorest. Frustrated by the lack of progress in some of his campaigns, |
| 1:51.1 | Jamie wanted to get advice on how to deliver meaning and lasting change to improve child health |
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