
Bread
Shahidha Bari and guests look at the way bread comes up in history, religion and economics
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
Producer: Ruth Watts
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- Fri 16 Oct 202621:00BBC Radio 4
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