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Oct 16
56m 55s

Bread

Bbc Radio 4
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The 'bread of life', your 'bread and butter', bread riots and 'let them eat cake', gentrification and bakeries: Shahidha Bari hosts the round-table discussion programme about ideas and, as part of Radio 4's Farming Tomorrow season of programmes, our topic is bread. Shahidha's guests are:

Paul Mason, journalist and writer on economics and history whose latest book is Reds: A Global History of Communism Pen Vogler author of Stuffed: A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain New Generation Thinker Dr Dan Taylor, a Senior Lecturer In Social And Political Thought at the Open University Elizabeth Oldfield, presenter of The Sacred podcast and author of Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times. And, Susannah Savage, the commodities correspondent for the Financial Times.

Producer: Ruth Watts

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