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The Food Programme: My Food Hero: Sheila Dillon meets writer and campaigner Susan George

My Food Hero: Sheila Dillon meets writer and campaigner Susan George

16/08/2015

BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme, My Food Hero: Sheila Dillon meets writer and campaigner Susan George

Sheila Dillon speaks to her food hero, campaigner and writer Susan George.

Sheila Dillon speaks to the woman who shaped her career in food journalism, one of the most influential writers on hunger and social justice, writer and campaigner Susan George.

In the second of a special series of food heroes, Sheila Dillon meets one of the most influential writers on international hunger and social justice in recent times. 

Susan George published her first book 'How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger' almost 40 years ago. It was a book that, at the time, offered a radically different perspective on famine in the developing world. 

In 1985, as pictures of East African drought and hunger started appearing on our TV screens, Susan George published 'Ill Fares The Land' a collection of essays which didn't shy away from criticising International aid efforts, and demanded a different approach to trade and development. She wrote 'A more just society is a better-fed society'. It would become a seminal text. 

Now, aged 81, and continuing to speak at conferences around the world, Susan George speaks to Sheila Dillon about her career, the predictions she made 30 years ago, and the problems we still face in feeding our growing global population.

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