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You're listening to the Witness History podcast from the BBC World Service with me Josephine McDermott. We're going back nearly 40 years to the moment when Chinese cookery was introduced to British television audiences for the first time

with the chef Ken Homme. It's 1983 and

1983 and Ken Homme has been hired by the BBC to make a program introducing the basic techniques of Chinese cookery. I'm using one tablespoon of garlic finely chopped.

At his audition, Ken has impressed the producers.

One tablespoon of ginger.

Lots of energetic jostling of the pan and the ingredients.

And one and a half tablespoon of spring onion.

But the high temperatures required have clearly raised safety concerns.

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