{"id":339791,"date":"2026-05-01T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/prue-leith-how-to-grow-old-without-fear\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:00:03","slug":"prue-leith-how-to-grow-old-without-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/prue-leith-how-to-grow-old-without-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Prue Leith: How to grow old without fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/cqriN2iyKu4\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Prue Leith: How to grow old without fear\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cqriN2iyKu4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Prue Leith may be best known as a judge on The Great British Bake Off, but her influence reaches far beyond television. She founded a leading cookery school, built a Michelin-starred restaurant, spent decades shaping national policy on food education and public health, and has written extensively on ageing. This year she also served as a judge for The British Book Awards.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Ways to Change the World, she speaks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy, reflecting on her latest new book \u2018Being Old\u2026 and Learning to Love It!\u2019 and talks frankly about growing older, staying relevant, finding happiness, and why she believes ageing can be liberating. 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