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Hello and welcome to Table Talk, the Spectators' Food and Drink podcast.

I'm Laura Prendergast.

And I'm Olivia Potts.

And today we're delighted to be joined by Sir Nicholas Moston,

a British High Court judge who left the bench just a few weeks ago following a long and distinguished career. In 2020, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's and went on to co-create the cult podcast,

Movers and Shakers, along with Jeremy Paxman and other friends of theirs

with the disease. Nicholas, welcome to Table Talk. I'm very happy to be here.

Nicholas, we're going to start where we always do at the beginning and ask you, what are your

very earliest memories of food? I knew this question was coming because you suggested I listened to some of your previous

guests and I have thought long and hard about this and the memory is in Nigeria where I was

aged five, I think, in about 1962.

That was only two years after independence.

So it had a sort of strange colonial, even in war atmosphere about it.

And we lived in a grandhouse.

And the cook brought in this great silver salver and lifted the lid.

They called salvers, whatever they called, and lifted the lid and there was this enormous yellow vegetable inside, which I'd never seen before.

And we all looked at it in amazement, and I was told it was a yam. And that was my, that's my

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