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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

Food for Thought: Series 3

Food for Thought: Series 3: Episode 3: Mary Portas

Mary Portas

Episode 3

Episode 3: Mary Portas

Series 3

BBC Radio 4 - Food for Thought, Series 3, Mary Portas

Mary Portas on sex and chocolate, fighting for seconds and why she loves a full fridge.

Over porridge and a flat white at her local cafe, retail guru Mary Portas tells Nina Myskow about sex and chocolate and how losing her parents as a teenager shaped her food habits.

At breakfast at her favourite local cafe, retail guru Mary Portas remembers fighting for scraps as the fourth child in a large Irish family in the 1970s.

As the Government's 'Queen of Shops', she tells Nina Myskow how her passion for the local High Street came from losing her mother at the age of 16, and needing to provide for herself and her younger brother.

Over porridge and a flat white, Mary contemplates the emotion and experiences behind her love of good food and a full fridge. With another young mouth to feed, who does the cooking now in her household?

And she talks about the relationship between food and sex, and admits to a love of fine wine and cheap chocolate.


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Journalist Nina Myskow discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives

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