Jamie Oliver: A Life Through Food Part I

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On the anniversary of TV series 'The Naked Chef', Jamie Oliver talks to Sheila Dillon about two controversial decades dominating food on our TV screens and online, our home cooking, and dining out.

In a two-part programme, Jamie, arguably the UK’s most successful food entrepreneur, reveals where it all went wrong with ill-fated restaurant chain 'Jamie's Italian’; the restaurants were supposed to disrupt mid-market dining, but after more than a decade, the chain collapsed in May.

He takes Sheila back to his childhood home, above his dad's Essex pub restaurant where his life in professional kitchens began, clearing up fag ends and polishing urinal pipes. Cooking, the only thing he was “any good at” would propel him into the restaurant scene of 1990s London, and eventually onto our TV screens.

This is the first part of two programmes on Jamie Oliver's Life Through Food. Part two will be broadcast on Sunday 25th August 2019.

Presented by Sheila Dillon Produced by Clare Salisbury

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0:52.0	Jamie Oliver.
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0:59.3	I was very stop listening to your 2001 Desert Al of Disks. You were so...
1:07.0	Green? No, you weren't.
1:10.0	You know, I guess you weren't as guarded
1:13.2	I've never felt that I've been guarded if anything I'm often too
1:18.3	open to you honest but I have a psychological question to answer it.
1:23.0	Oh, good for good life.
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