A Taste of Britain Revisited - Dorset

The Food Programme

BBC

Food, Arts

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In 1974, Derek Cooper set off on a hunt - for BBC Television - around Britain to discover what was left of its regional foods and traditional ingredients. Forty years on, Dan Saladino revisits that series, called "A Taste of Britain" - to meet some of those involved, their descendants, and to find out what happened after these food traditions, many of which at the time were on the wane, were recorded for the cameras.

In the first of a three-part special summer series, Dan starts his own food journey in Dorset. He'll share stories with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Mark Hix, and go on the trail of some long-hidden buried fungi, as well as an oddly elusive cheese: the Dorset Blue Vinny.

Presenter: Dan Saladino Producer: Rich Ward.

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the
0:03.8	podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC.
0:08.6	It's a massive area but I'd sum it up as stories to help us make sense of the forces shaping the world.
0:15.0	What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism
0:20.0	and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines.
0:23.7	And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject
0:28.3	you might not even have thought you were interested in.
0:30.2	Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment,
0:36.0	you can always discover more with a thousand miles around Britain. I know where I'm heading, but I'm not entirely
0:55.4	sure who I'm going to meet when I get there. And if I'm honest, I don't even know if I'm going to find
1:00.7	what I'm looking for, because all of the locations on this trip and the
1:04.8	food stories I'm searching for were decided 40 years ago. In 1974 Derek Cooper appeared on BBC 2 in a series called A Taste of Britain. I came across the archive
1:25.6	when I first joined the food program nearly a decade ago and it's fascinated me ever
1:30.3	since.
1:32.3	It isn't so long ago when you could travel from one part of the country to another
1:35.8	and wherever you went you'd find a wide variety of local dishes.
1:40.7	In 11 episodes filmed over four years, Derek recorded a world he was convinced was disappearing before his eyes.
1:48.0	And so he set out to preserve on film the people whose work appeared to be the last direct link back to Britain's regional food traditions.
1:57.0	The men of this family have been fishing in these waters and in this unchanging way since the time of the Crusades.
2:05.0	A few miles downstream the food trucks cross and recross the seven with their
2:10.5	processed packages and tins.
2:14.0	They're often melancholy programs,
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