Angela Hartnett: A Life Through Food

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Sheila Dillon is joined by a chef, restaurateur, author and campaigner, Angela Hartnett, for another in the programme’s series of Lives told through Food.

Angela Hartnett is seen as an icon in the food industry - she started out learning on the job in Cambridge - and later rose up working for Gordon Ramsey, first at The Aubergine, and later at the Connaught Hotel, where she earned her first Michelin star.

During that time she started to become a familiar face on British Television, appearing regularly on Hell’s Kitchen and the Great British Menu.

In 2010, Angela bought Ramsay out of the restaurant she still runs today - Murano - where she received another Michelin star.

In January 2022, Angela was awarded an OBE for her services to the hospitality industry, and for the work she did for the NHS during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In this conversation, Angela reflects on her campaigning, changes in the industry, and family life.

Presented by Sheila Dillon Produced in Bristol by Natalie Donovan

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0:58.7	She's incredibly supportive of people, but it's because she's got a huge amount of her own self-confidence.
1:04.6	She hasn't got to prove anything to anybody.
1:06.5	You know, she's very comfortable in her own skin and wonderfully grounded human being.
1:11.4	Her capacity for work is just extraordinary, but also so deeply
1:16.6	professional in everything that she does. She always knows the things that she's
1:21.5	really good at and the things that she's really good at and the things that she's less good at and
1:25.0	so she's willing to reach out for help.
1:27.0	Tom Kerridge and new inventors talking about the chef and restaurateur Angela Hartnett and for the next half hour or so are we.
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