Prue Leith is extraordinary!

Katie Piper's Extraordinary People

Sony Music

Health & Fitness, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 657 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Recorded during lockdown in their homes, Katie speaks with chef, entrepreneur, novelist and TV star Prue Leith, who is video-calling from her home in the English countryside. Prue has been at the top of the British food scene for decades, opening her own restaurant Leith's in 1969 that led to a Michelin Star, then in 1975 she founded the Leith's School of Food and Wine, which has trained some of the UKs top chefs. Prue is no stranger to television having spent years critiquing food on The Great British Menu, and recently she won our hearts as judge on The Great British Bake Off, all whilst writing eight novels, and countless cookery books! She's had a truly extraordinary life, which she recently opened up about in her Channel 4 documentary 'Prue Leith: Journey with My Daughter', where Prue and her adopted daughter Li-Da travel to Cambodia to explore Li-Da's roots and heritage. Katie and Prue speak honestly about the highs and lows life brings, and her career ambitions she has yet to fulfil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.3	Hello and welcome to Katie Piper's extraordinary people. Right now we're recording
1:14.4	in extraordinary circumstances. Normally I'd sit down face to face with someone with an
1:19.7	amazing story to tell. But at the moment, because of lockdown, we're meeting from our very
1:25.3	own homes. My guest today has truly lived an extraordinary life.
1:30.9	You might know her best as a TV cook, a judge from the Great British menu, or of course,
1:36.2	from the nation's favourite TV program, the Great British Bake Off. You might know her as having
1:42.0	established the highly prestigious leaf School of Food and Wine.
1:45.8	Behind all of that, though, she's lived an extraordinary personal life,
1:49.6	which she recently opened up about in a Channel 4 documentary,
1:53.2	Prue Leaf, Journey with My Daughter.
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