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Coast to Coast Food Festival episode 8: Edith Bowman and Colin Murray explore the food stalls and events at the Peebles Show. They discover tips and treats from passionate food producers, from perfect steaks to premium chocolate at a fraction of the price. Food journalist Leyla Kazim heads to Northumbria in search of the best local fish, and Onkar Singh […]
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Coast to Coast Food Festival episode 7: Sean Fletcher goes in search of tips and treats as he explores the food festival at Llangollen, where local food experts reveal their passion for their produce. Farmer Jim Smith tests his tastebuds with some hot sauces in Edinburgh, chef Suzie Lee discovers the key to producing cider in Armagh, and the secrets
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Coast to Coast Food Festival episode 6: Colin Murray and Edith Bowman are on a journey of international food discovery as they take in Belfast’s Mela festival, discovering how to make cheap and easy kimchi and authentic Jamaican patties. Baker Briony-May Williams finds out why Cumbria is the home of sticky toffee pudding. Farmer Meinir Howells gets a workout harvesting
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Coast to Coast Food Festival episode 5: Edith Bowman and Colin Murray explore the Glasgow Foodies’ Festival, where they discover the secrets to the best egg fried rice with chef Jimmy Lee and how to spot ‘fake’ vanilla. Food journalist Leyla Kazim investigates how many people it takes to make a bag of crisps, and chef Suzie Lee finds a
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Coast to Coast Food Festival episode 4: Sean Fletcher and Edith Bowman explore Cockermouth’s food festival, meeting passionate food producers and getting tips on homemade pitta bread from a MasterChef winner. Cookery writer Michaela Chiappa discovers how seaweed is being harvested for food, and chef Julie Lin gets the low down on low-fat, semi-skimmed and full-fat milk. Chef Suzie Lee
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Joanna Lumley’s Nile episode 4: Joanna goes to the last stage of his epic journey up the river, with flights to Juba, southern Sudan, which has enabled the fragile peace process a resurgence of beauty contests in the country. Then it goes to the Murchison Falls in Uganda and finds some of the largest African wildlife, including hippos, rhinos and
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Joanna Lumley’s Nile episode 3: The epic river journey brings the actress to Khartoum, where she watches whirling dervishes practising their devotional dancing and experiences a Sudanese beauty treatment that makes use of wood smoke. She then takes a short diversion into Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains to meet an unusual group of Olympic hopefuls training in the thin air of the
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Joanna Lumley’s Nile episode 2: The actress follows the river into the deserts of Northern Sudan, where she meets the survivor of a crocodile attack and goes in search of the creature. She is then introduced to the treasures of Nubia, an ancient kingdom of Africa ruled by the little-known Black Pharaohs, before visiting Sudan’s capital city Khartoum, where she
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Joanna Lumley’s Nile episode 1: The actress embarks on an epic journey, exploring the world’s longest river from sea to source. She begins her adventure on a fishing boat on Egypt’s coast, where the Nile spills into the Mediterranean, before capturing the spirit of Agatha Christie in Cairo and enjoying a Nile cruise. She also travels along the river by
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Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 3: The actress heads to the island of Shikoku hoping to gain a better understanding of Japanese Buddhism. She then takes a bullet train to another island – Kyushu – where she finds the Henn Na Hotel, the world’s first robot hotel. At Nagasaki, she visits Shiroyama Elementary school, one of the only buildings to survive
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Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 2: The actress flies over Tokyo in a helicopter. The city was bombed extensively during the Second World War, so almost all of it is a symbol of the post-war economic boom that saw Japan become the world’s second largest economy. While in the capital, Joanna heads out to a nightclub to see a Japanese girl
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Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 1: Joanna begins a 2,000-mile journey across Japan in Hokkaido, where she meets one of the most important animals in Japanese culture, the red-crowned crane. She arrives in Sapporo during the middle of the annual Snow Festival and meets members of the local indigenous community, before travelling into the Fukushima exclusion zone and taking a bullet
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