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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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Making Porridge with Erwin James

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Erwin James

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Nina Myskow talks porridge, prison and stealing school dinners with lifer Erwin James.

Journalist and former prisoner Erwin James tells Nina Myskow about stealing school dinners, eating porridge, prison and his subsequent rehabilitation.

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

The bags of oats at one prison, where journalist and lifer Erwin James was an inmate, were all stamped "Canadian pig meal, grade 3". The porridge was made with water. However, as Erwin explains to Nina Myskow, adding full cream milk, honey and pine nuts to his own breakfast recipe, they were an important part of his diet and his rehabilitation, after a chaotic itinerant lifestyle and living rough as a child.

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

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Journalist Nina Myskow discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives

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