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How to tell a food story

How we use fiction to talk about our food, and how food can help tell stories

What happens when food meets fiction?

In this special programme from the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, presenter Emily Thomas is joined by a panel of guests and an audience to find out how poems, plays and novels can help us understand our food better - and also how food can be used as a narrative device to enhance storytelling.

Poet and novelist Ben Okri, farmer and author Suzanna Crampton, and playwright and former script-writer for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ radio drama The Archers, Graham Harvey, share some of their work, and tell us how they balance food, fact and fiction in a world awash with misinformation.

(Picture composite: Ben Okri, Suzanna Crampton and Graham Harvey. Credit: Roberto Ricciuti, Getty Images, Martha Faye and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ)

53 minutes

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Sun 31 Mar 2019 21:06GMT
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only

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  • Sun 31 Mar 2019 19:06GMT
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
  • Sun 31 Mar 2019 21:06GMT
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only

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