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Erwin James

Episode 2 of 5

Journalist and former prisoner Erwin James tells Nina Myskow about stealing school dinners, eating porridge, prison and his subsequent rehabilitation.

Journalist Nina Myskow discovers how attitudes to food, shape and affect individual lives.

The bags of oats at one prison, where journalist and lifer Erwin James was an inmate, were all stamped "Canadian pig meal, grade 3". The porridge was made with water. However, as Erwin explains to Nina Myskow, adding full cream milk, honey and pine nuts to his own breakfast recipe, they were an important part of his diet and his rehabilitation, after a chaotic itinerant lifestyle and living rough as a child.

The producer is Tamsin Hughes, and this is a Wise Buddah production for 大象传媒 Radio 4.

15 minutes

Last on

Sun 17 Nov 2013 13:15

Broadcasts

  • Sun 20 Sep 2009 14:45
  • Tue 6 Apr 2010 15:45
  • Sun 17 Nov 2013 07:15
  • Sun 17 Nov 2013 13:15