Delia Smith: friend of the royals, a national treasure who taught us how to boil and egg and an advocate for radical spiritualism.

In this episode Lewis Bassett, Felicity Cloak and Zoe Williams unpick who Delia is and what her impact has been on how we eat in Britain.

This is the first episode of our new series on cooks who've change the way we eat. Subscribe to hear future episodes on everyone from Madhur Jaffrey to Jamie Oliver.

Mixing and sound design from Forest DLG.

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