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Food For Thought - Afternoon Tea at The Ritz with Joan Rivers

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Series of conversations in which journalist Nina Myskow discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives. Over tea and chocolate tart in a suite at the Ritz, comedian Joan Rivers recounts a lifetime of self-loathing and fear of being fat. She recalls the shock of discovering she wasn't beautiful, her mother's advice on dinner parties and an extraordinary daily diet of vitamin pills, low-calorie ice cream sandwiches and cereal with whipped cream.