Charles Campion: A Life Through Food.

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The writer Charles Campion, who passed away recently, was an obsessive collector of food stories. With the help of Jay Rayner, Cyrus Todiwala, Nigel Barden, Mark Hix and Angela Hartnett, Dan Saladino finds out why.

Charles had first worked in advertising, then became a chef in his own hotel-restaurant and eventually turned to food writing. He made numerous appearances on The Food Programme and was a longstanding judge in the BBC Food and Farming Awards. As Jay Rayner explains in this edition, 'the food world will be all the poorer for him not being in it.'

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino. Photo credit: Dominick Tyler.

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0:53.8	Inside a small trailer parked on a busy London street,
0:57.2	a Moroccan cook is getting to work.
1:00.3	And is it all made in this caravan?
1:02.1	Yes, all made in this caravan, inside, all made in this caravan inside this caravan.
1:04.0	So what time do you start?
1:06.0	8 o'clock in the morning, preparation,
1:08.0	we start serving like 12, 11.
1:10.0	This was September 2012, a different time, a different world.
1:15.0	Customers were huddled together, sitting on stools.
1:19.0	It's a very appetizing smell in this little van.
1:22.0	I think we should eat something. These particular eaters
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