Alexis Soyer (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

BBC

Comedy, History

4.7 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Greg Jenner is joined in the 19th century by Dr Annie Gray and comedian Ed Gamble to learn all about French celebrity chef Alexis Soyer.

Despite being well-known during his lifetime, Soyer is virtually unknown today. His primary legacy was a portable stove, used by the British army until the Falklands War. But Soyer was a prototypical celebrity chef: he opened the Reform Club kitchen to the public so that they could watch him cook, wrote popular cookbooks, sold kitchen gadgets and branded sauces, and even took part in high-profile charity campaigns.

From his birth in France to the success he found in London, via a soup kitchen in Dublin and a hospital during the Crimean War, this episode explores Alexis Soyer’s extraordinary life and culinary innovations.

This is a radio edit of the original podcast episode. For the full-length version, please look further back in the feed.

Hosted by: Greg Jenner Research by: Hannah Campbell Hewson Written by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Emma Nagouse, and Greg Jenner Produced by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow and Greg Jenner Audio Producer: Steve Hankey Production Coordinator: Ben Hollands Senior Producer: Emma Nagouse Executive Editor: James Cook

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0:00.0	You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one.
0:06.5	I'm Sadata Sese, an assistant commissioner of podcasts for BBC Sounds.
0:11.2	I pull a lot of levers to support a diverse range of podcasts on all sorts of subjects,
0:16.0	relationships, identity, comedy, even one that mixes poetry, music and inner city life.
0:22.4	So one day I'll be helping host develop their ideas, the next fact-checking, a feature,
0:28.3	and the next looking at how a podcast connects with its audience, and maybe that's you.
0:33.6	So if you like this podcast, check out some others on BBC Sounds.
0:39.5	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:44.2	Hello and welcome to You're Dead to Me, the Radio 4 comedy podcast that takes history seriously.
0:49.1	My name is Greg Jenner. I'm a public historian author and broadcaster.
0:52.3	And today we are tying our aprons and firing up the stove
0:55.3	as we learn all about 19th century celebrity chef, Alexei Soye.
0:59.8	And to help us, we have two very special dining companions.
1:03.4	In History Corner, she's an author, broadcaster and food historian,
1:06.7	specialising in food from 1600 to the present day.
1:09.1	That's a lot of food.
1:10.2	He might have heard her on BBC Radio 4's The Kitchen Cabinet
1:12.8	or read one of her many wonderful books,
1:15.1	including The Greedy Queen,
1:16.3	all about Queen Victoria's food tastes.
1:18.3	And you'll definitely remember her
1:19.4	from our delicious episode on The History of Ice Cream.
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