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Table Talk: with Jonathan Drori

Table Talk: with Jonathan Drori

Best of the Spectator · The Spectator

May 11, 202125m 13s

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<div>Jonathan Drori CBE is a Trustee of the Eden Project and Cambridge Science Centre, an ambassador for WWF, and was for nine years a Trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In a previous life at the BBC, he was executive producer of more than 50 prime-time science documentaries and popular series, and he is now the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Around-World-Plants-Jonathan-Drori/dp/178627230X"><em>Around the World in 80 Plants</em></a>.<br><br>On the podcast, he talks to Lara and Olivia about the diverse diet he had as a child of Eastern European Jewish refugees, how he got into botany through eating plants and the time he accidentally ordered a raw chicken milkshake.</div> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>