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My Inner Child: Episode 5: Ghillie Basan

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Ghillie Basan

Episode 5

Episode 5: Ghillie Basan

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Food and travel writer Ghillie Basan talks about her childhood days in East Africa.

Psychologist Richard Woolfson examines how childhood can influence adult life. Food and travel writer Ghillie Basan tells him about her childhood days in East Africa.

Child Psychologist Richard Woolfson has a special interest in the way our childhood influences the way we are as adults.

He travels to Ghillie's very remote home in the Scottish Highlands where he's immediately struck by the buffalo skull by her backdoor. Inside he sees many artefacts from her childhood years in Keyna and hears of encounters with elephants and lions and adventures going camping in the bush.

Ghillie was introduced to many new foods and spices at that time which has influenced her career as a food and travel writer and she prepares a traditional Kenyan dish for Richard to try.

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Psychologist Richard Woolfson examines how childhood can influence a person's adult life.

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