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Hello and welcome to Table Talk, the Spectator's Food and Drink podcast. I'm Olivia Potts.

And I'm Laura Prendergast. And today we are delighted to be joined by Edward Sturton.

A broadcaster for over 40 years, Edward Sturton has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, ITN and Channel 4.

He presents Radio 4's Sunday programme and presented the Today programme for 10 years.

The author of eight books, his most recent, Sunday, a history of religious affairs through 50 years of

conversations and controversies, is available now. Edward, welcome to table talk. Thanks for the

plug. That's very kind. We try. We always start this podcast at the same point. We like to ask

our guests, what are your earliest memories of food? Do you mean what I actually ate first?

Just whatever comes to mine when you're thinking about food.

I think probably a great treat when we lived in Switzerland.

I lived all over the place as a child.

And I learned to ski, this was a 60th, so it's wooden skis and lace up boots and all that sort of stuff.

And I was young and quite quickly learnt the ski fast.

So I would disappear for the day.

We'd go every weekend.

We were living in Geneva.

And since I didn't see my parents from morning to evening,

my mum would give me a baguette stuffed with big, bitter, dark Swiss cooking chocolate.

And the combination was just absolutely fantastic.

It was a kind of caloric punch.

And I'd find somewhere on the mountain to sit in the sun in the middle of the day.

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