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Rick Stein's Cornwall episode 37

Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 37

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Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 37: Rick boards the King Harry Ferry to enjoy a crossing voted one of the most scenic in the world. Once safely across the River Fal, he explores his passion for fresh and unusual salad leaves, with a mosey around an organic market garden called Soul Farm, and is inspired to make a radicchio tart.         He shares memories of his friendship with the famous composer Sir Malcolm Arnold, who won an Oscar for his film score for The Bridge on the River Kwai, and is joined by BBC radio broadcaster and Cornishman […]

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Rick Stein's Cornwall episode 36

Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 36

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Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 36: Rick meets Pip and Matt Smith, with their herd of 600 red deer, on a north Cornish farm that has been in Pip’s family for over three centuries. With some very fine organic venison, Rick returns to his kitchen in Padstow to make a magnificent venison wellington.         He spends an afternoon on Porthgwarra beach with the artist Hannah Woodman, whose work is inspired by the sea-worn landscape of west Cornwall – one of the oldest of the land masses that make up the British Isles. And over a pint with the

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Rick Stein's Cornwall episode 35

Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 35

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Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 35: Rick encounters a fishing method frozen in time, going under sail without engines or winches for what he considers to be the best oysters in the world. Back on dry land, he cooks a warming fish soup called Cullen skink, the perfect lunch after a morning on the water.         He discovers the surprising story behind Charles Napier Hemy’s famous painting of oystermen at work and the equally surprising story of Cornwall’s former capital, now the sleepy town of Lostwithiel but once a cosmopolitan and internationally significant port, which boasted an important

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Rick Stein's Cornwall episode 34

Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 34

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Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 34: Rick glimpses life in Cornwall 2,000 years ago as he explores the atmospheric ruins of the ancient village of Carn Euny. He soaks up the lively ambiance of Truro cattle market, an important social hub for local farmers but one of only a few live cattle markets still operating in the UK.         He cooks his favourite Sunday lunch, a hearty steak and kidney pudding, and goes for a bracing ride on a beautiful handbuilt boat, a replica of one of the most famous and fastest vessels to sail the waters around

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Rick Stein's Cornwall episode 33

Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 33

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Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 33: Rick visits Europe’s largest tea plantation beside the River Fal in Cornwall, where conditions are just right for the perfect cuppa. He indulges in his greatest pleasure, afternoon tea, with a freshly baked fruited tea loaf and some plum compote. Afterwards, he takes a day trip to Penzance and an invigorating dip in the UK’s largest outdoor seawater lido, with its stunning art deco design and modern geothermal heating system.         Rick also uncovers the fascinating and little-known story of Charles Dickens’s time in Cornwall and how the county found its way

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Rick Stein's Cornwall episode 32

Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 32

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Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 32: Rick meets the author of The Salt Path, Raynor Winn, and her husband Moth in the ancient apple orchard where she and Moth make delicious cider, filtered through straw, in the way it was a hundred years ago. Inspired, Rick cooks a chicken, leek and cider gratin for his old friend John Harris, head gardener at Tresillian House, who regales Rick with his memories of cider making as a boy.         Rick also delves into the rich history of the Cornish sea shanty, meeting an all-female group whose shanties celebrate the colourful

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Rick Stein's Cornwall episode 31

Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 31

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Rick Stein’s Cornwall episode 31: Rick returns to Cornwall in the spot where his passion for seafood began, at the exposed rock pools below his parents’ old house on the Cornish Atlantic coast. With his freshly foraged mussels, Rick heads home to Padstow, where he rustles up a delicious seafood omelette for breakfast.       On Bodmin Moor, he and son Jack reminisce about the Cornish ghost stories Rick used to tell, but this time Rick has a tale that he’s never told before: the horrific murder nearly 200 years ago of a young woman called Charlotte Dymond. Below

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Joanna Lumley's India episode 3

Joanna Lumley’s India episode 3

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Joanna Lumley’s India episode 3: Joanna ends her 5,000 mile journey in the place where she was born, Srinagar in Kashmir. She starts off in the Ranthambhore National Park, where she hopes to spot a tiger in the wild. Meeting tiger conservationist Belinda Wright, Joanna witnesses the work of local NGO Tiger Watch, who are attempting to break a cycle of poaching and poverty through education. Home to over 18 million people, Delhi is a city of stark contrasts. The extreme differences are obvious when Joanna visits a homeless community – where 10,000 men live under a flyover – and

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Joanna Lumley's India episode 2

Joanna Lumley’s India episode 2

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Joanna Lumley’s India episode 2: Joanna meets the Maharaja of Dungarpur, who shows her around his lakeside palace. In stark contrast, Joanna visits a Dalit community – considered to be India’s lowest caste – in Gujarat, and hears of the everyday discrimination these people experience under India’s still deeply entrenched 3,000-year-old caste system. She later joins in a Hindu house warming ceremony, where a cow and calf are brought into the new house for luck. Braving the roads of Mumbai, Joanna takes a ride in the city’s only all-female taxi company and visits the Times of India, where her uncle

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Cornwall with Simon Reeve episode 2

Cornwall with Simon Reeve episode 2

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Cornwall with Simon Reeve episode 2: In the second of two programmes, Simon investigates the environmental challenges facing Cornwall and the rest of the country, and on the way encounters some of its iconic wildlife, including Britain’s largest predator, the huge grey seal. More than a third of the global population is found in UK waters, where they are threatened by ocean pollution. Diving into coastal waters, Simon accompanies the volunteers who clean up the discarded fishing nets that can entangle and drown the seals.       Travelling inland from the beautiful coast, Simon crosses a county of stunning

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Joanna Lumley's India episode 1

Joanna Lumley’s India episode 1

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Joanna Lumley’s India episode 1: Joanna Lumley travels back to the country of her birth. A year older than independent India itself, Joanna was born in Srinagar in the last days of the Raj and India was home to both sides of her family for several generations. Joanna travels the length and breadth of the country, beginning her epic journey in Tamil Nadu – on the southern tip of the subcontinent – and works her way up to the north. She travels over 5,000 miles, exploring its diverse landscapes, different cultural traditions, and extraordinary spirit. Joanna witnesses religious ceremonies in

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Cornwall with Simon Reeve episode 1

Cornwall with Simon Reeve episode 1

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Cornwall with Simon Reeve episode 1: Simon Reeve travels through glorious Cornwall during a summer like no other, as the county emerges from lockdown and businesses are in a race to survive. Cornwall is hugely reliant on tourism and the pandemic has highlighted how precarious people’s livelihoods are. In this first of two programmes, Simon journeys through some of the most beautiful coastal locations Britain has to offer and meets the incredible Cornish characters who make the county unique.       For the Taco Boys, a group of enterprising young entrepreneurs selling their homemade food on the beach, lockdown

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