BBC Food and Farming Awards 2016: Special Edition
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Sheila Dillon presents the 2016 BBC Food & Farming Awards in this extended online special.
At the ceremony in Bristol, Sheila and three co-hosts - Yotam Ottolenghi, Angela Hartnett and Stefan Gates - guide us through the stories of the finalists and reveal this year's winners.
This full-length edition, available to download and listen online, also features an extended version of the Derek Cooper Outstanding Achievement Award, presented this year to Dr Joan Morgan.
The ceremony marked the climax of a long process - starting with listeners’ nominations, then an expert team of judges sifting through your nominations in each of the categories, before making their visits right across the UK.
On stage at the ceremony, Sheila is joined by award givers including Jancis Robinson, Ken Hom, Mitch Tonks and the BBC Director General Lord Tony Hall. The finalists - and their stories - are insightful, inspiring… and delicious.
Producer: Rich Ward
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| 0:00.0 | This is the one moment in the making months of research, travel, and difficult decisions. |
| 0:08.0 | This, we believe, is the one moment in the year when Britain comes together to celebrate the country's |
| 0:14.4 | unheralded heroes. People who aren't driven first by fame or money, but by a love of |
| 0:21.2 | what they do and a belief in the outside chance they might actually make a difference |
| 0:26.7 | bringing pleasure into our lives and changing the way we live here in the UK |
| 0:37.3 | Inside an elegant marquee on the green across from Bristol Cathedral we all gathered. Our finalists, our starry award-givers, and our expert judges for the 2016 BBC Food and |
| 0:47.3 | farming awards. I think it's such a privilege to be invited to actually take part |
| 0:51.7 | in this because the great thing about these awards it is the |
| 0:54.8 | length and breadth of the UK. |
| 0:57.1 | It's just a great eye, a great honor to be doing here and finally get the recognition. |
| 1:03.0 | Yep, brilliant. |
| 1:04.0 | We've been doing what we do as honestly, as carefully as we possibly can. |
| 1:09.5 | And then for this to come along, it was actually really quite mind-blowing. |
| 1:12.5 | Some of these people haven't left their farms or chops for a year and suddenly they're |
| 1:16.4 | flash-bulled into the world of food and I wish them all. They're runners-up and the |
| 1:20.8 | winners the best luck in the future. I honestly don't think I've felt |
| 1:23.7 | this nervous about anything in my life. I don't think people realize the magnitude of the |
| 1:28.8 | awards, how important they are not just to us as producers, but I think to the |
| 1:32.3 | industry to have that recognition. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm utterly proud of our team and all the people that have nominated us and all our customers |
| 1:38.0 | it's just fantastic. Thank you. |
| 1:42.0 | When we started these awards in 2000, we didn't foresee how they'd grow to become such a major event, |
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