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Nina Myskow discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives

Series of conversations in which journalist Nina Myskow discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives

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Food for Thought: Series 1: Episode 4: Rabbi Lionel Blue

Shabbat-eve with Rabbi Lionel Blue

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Episode 4: Rabbi Lionel Blue

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Rabbi Lionel Blue

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Nina Myskow discusses life, love and potato latkes with Rabbi Lionel Blue.

With the table set for Shabbat-eve, Nina Myskow discusses life, love and potato latkes with Rabbi Lionel Blue.

Journalist Nina Myskow discovers how attitudes to food, shape and affect individual lives. 

With the table set for Shabbat-eve, Lionel Blue looks back on his unorthodox life. As Britain's first openly gay Rabbi, often referred to as "cherub-faced", he tells Nina how food has been inextricably linked with personal transformation, from changing tastes and a fluctuating waistline to transformed circumstances and shifting beliefs. However, he still remembers watching his grandmother cooking potato latkes and eating them on toast or with apple sauce. It was the kind of food that fed the family, the neighbours and, he implies, the soul.

The producer is Tamsin Hughes, and this is a Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4.

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