Ice Cream Nation
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
We might like the occasional 99 in the rain in the UK, but not for us the piled high gelato cones of Italy, the tubs of sweet American sundaes, nor the eiscafes of Germany and Austria. Right?
Yasmin Khan is on a mission to prove you wrong. In this programme Yasmin (Ice cream fanatic) uncovers the UK’s rich but lesser known ice cream culture, taking a trip down memory lane to visit people making ice cream in places where she's lived. She’ll hear about our overlooked regional specialities like the ‘lemon top’ of Redcar near Middlesbrough. And she’ll hear how our sweet tooth is driving a new market for high street dessert parlours and struggling dairy farms.
She’ll find how our love affair with ice cream all goes back to hundreds of years of immigration, from the Swiss Italians in the 19th century to young entrepreneurs today.
It’s not an ice cream renaissance, because our love of ice cream has never disappeared. (And also there is nothing wrong with a 99 in the rain.)
Presented by Yasmin Khan Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | You don't need us to tell you there's a general election coming. |
| 0:04.7 | So what does it mean for you? |
| 0:06.7 | Every day on newscast we dissect the big talking points, the ones that you want to know more about. |
| 0:12.4 | With our book of contacts, we talk directly to the people you want to hear from. |
| 0:16.8 | And with help from some of the best BBC journalists, |
| 0:19.5 | we'll untangle the stories that matter to you. |
| 0:23.0 | Join me, Laura Kunsberg, Adam Fleming, Chris Mason and Patty O'Connell for our daily |
| 0:28.4 | podcast. |
| 0:29.4 | Newscast, listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:38.0 | Last year I discovered a place around the corner from me which changed my life. |
| 0:56.2 | This is the food programme, the place for hungry minds and I'm Yasmin Khan. I like ice cream from ice cream bands Mr Whippy with a flake and strawberry sauce I like gelato's I love sawbays I love |
| 1:03.3 | vegan ice creams. I really love |
| 1:06.8 | classic Iranian ice cream, |
| 1:09.6 | a saffron infused custard |
| 1:11.6 | flecked with pistachos and chunks of clotted cream. |
| 1:16.0 | Ice cream isn't necessarily something |
| 1:21.0 | that you associate with Britain. Something to do with the weather maybe or the attitude. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm making this program to persuade you of Britain's very unique ice cream culture. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm going to take you on a personal ice cream |
| 1:35.2 | journey around some of the places that have meant something special to me. My first |
| 1:42.1 | stop was on the northeast coast in a small town close to Middlesbrough. |
| 1:47.0 | Next stop, Lake Central, Stuff sea and sand and take take only belongings it will be ground. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.