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Dame Prue Leith is a broadcaster, writer, former restaurateur and a judge on the television show the Great British Bake Off.

Prue was born in Cape Town, South Africa, during the era of Apartheid. After leaving school she moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne, but decided that her future lay in food, and took a Cordon Bleu cookery course in London. She set up her own catering business from her bedsit, where space was so tight that she washed lettuces in the bath.

In 1969 she opened Leith\\u2019s, her own fine dining restaurant, in Notting Hill in west London. Leith\\u2019s was awarded a Michelin star in the 1980s. She went on to write columns and cookbooks and became a regular broadcaster about food, on shows including the Great British Menu. In 1975 she opened Leith\\u2019s School of Food and Wine which trains professional chefs and amateur cooks.

Prue replaced Mary Berry as a judge on the Great British Bake Off in 2017. She has written eight novels and lives with her husband in Gloucestershire.

DISC ONE: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by The Beatles \\nDISC TWO: Ugly Duckling by Danny Kaye\\nDISC THREE: Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika by Ladysmith Black Mambazo \\nDISC FOUR: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (I) composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and performed by Sir Neville Marriner (violin), Academy Of St Martin-in-the-Fields Orchestra and conducted by David Willcocks\\nDISC FIVE: 16 Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford \\nDISC SIX: Skylark by Aretha Franklin \\nDISC SEVEN: Chopin, Nocturne No. 2, op 9 in E flat major, played by Elisabeth Leonskaja\\nDISC EIGHT: Big Spender by Shirley MacLaine

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Presenter Lauren Laverne\\nProducer Paula McGinley