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What's it like to dine like a dictator?

What do dictators like to eat and what can their tastes tell you about them?

Authors Victoria Clark and Melissa Scott have spent a lot of time researching this question and the result is their book Dictators' Dinners.

They invited Sarah Montague and former British Ambassador to the United States Sir Christopher Meyer to lunch, to try the favourite dishes of some of history's most notorious tyrants.

This clip is from Today 5 December 2014.

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