Life of Pie
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
One September Ella Risbridger tried to kill herself. She survived and left the hospital thinking about making a pie. When she got home, her partner persuaded her to make the pie, and it set Ella on a course to teach herself to cook. And in teaching herself to cook, she has taught herself to live.
This is a programme about pies. The pork pie of Pete Brown and his ‘soon-to-be-wife’ Liz’s first date in Barnsley market. The pies that Julie Jones made with her mother which helped to keep her calm after a dementia diagnosis. Pies crafted by chef Calum Franklin, inspired by the surroundings of his London childhood, and pies creating a new future for young Preston businessman Robert D'Orville. Sheila Dillon travels to hear these stories, and uncovers a pie story of her own.
Presented by Sheila Dillon. Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury
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| 0:44.8 | I recently went for a meal in a posh fashionable restaurant and rather grand setting |
| 0:51.1 | near the River Thames, and I went because this friend of mine wanted to eat pies. |
| 0:56.5 | It didn't occur to me that what I was going to eat that night would bring back really, delicious memories of my childhood. |
| 1:06.2 | My pie looked beautiful. |
| 1:08.6 | It was potatoes, onion and cante cheese, a cheese I probably didn't encounter till my mid-20s. |
| 1:14.5 | The oddity was it brought back the memories of the pies of my childhood. |
| 1:20.0 | In particular, the butter pie, which is potatoes and onions and butter in a flaky crust. |
| 1:28.6 | I mean I was very surprised I thought in fact I thought it would have no connection really with my memories of childhood of eating pies then |
| 1:40.0 | and I was astounded this is a program about the pies that made us. It's not a program |
| 1:46.6 | documenting British pie history, as program worthy as that would be. And we're not going |
| 1:52.0 | to examine the health issues, though we were a thinner |
| 1:54.4 | nation when we ate more pies. This is a program of pie stories, because as I found sitting |
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