A Life Through Food: Matt Tebbutt
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Jaega Wise meets chef and broadcaster Matt Tebbutt at home in South Wales, to discuss his "Life Through Food". Matt has been presenting Saturday Kitchen Life on BBC One for almost a decade, but before he was a TV Presenter he worked as a chef - first in professional kitchens in London (he was in fact sacked by Marco Pierre White) and later ran his own gastropub in south Wales. It was his cooking there at The Foxhunter - which he ran with his wife Lisa - that first got him noticed by the media, and an appearance on the second ever series of the Great British Menu.
To discover what life is like on set for Matt, Jaega also pays a visit to the studios of Saturday Kitchen Live as they are rehearsing, to see how the live cooking show is put together week after week. She meets the team in the backstage "engine room" - the test kitchen - and discovers what they mean when they talk about "heroes", and finds out what happens at 11.30am after the cameras get turned off.
Plus she chats to wine expert Olly Smith about Matt's career and the friendship they've developed while working in food tv.
Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Natalie Donovan
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| 0:16.4 | Wow. |
| 0:17.2 | Many of them are very funny. |
| 0:19.1 | Which I think means... |
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| 0:40.9 | That was gold. |
| 0:44.8 | That laugh. |
| 0:46.7 | Pretty unmistakable. |
| 0:55.2 | And if you are one of those who puts on BBC One on a Saturday morning, chances are you know who it belongs to. When you're with Matt, it's gales of laughter all the time. I mean, hurricane force laughter, |
| 1:00.0 | in fact. I don't know yet. |
| 1:02.0 | Wine expert, Olly Smith, has known and worked with Matt Tebbert for years. |
| 1:07.0 | The way in which he's brought all the things he's learned in a kitchen to touch everybody equally so that everybody feels they can chip in. And I hope people at |
| 1:15.9 | home also feel like their part of that conversation. Because that's really Matt's greatest |
| 1:19.5 | skill is making other people feel welcome. This year, Saturday Kitchen celebrates the 20th |
| 1:25.7 | year since it took over Saturday mornings on BBC One. |
| 1:29.3 | Over those two decades, it's become a fixture for many at the weekend. |
| 1:32.9 | And for much of that last decade, Matt Tebbit has been the main presenter. |
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