Stranded! How to eat on a desert island.

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dan Saladino arrives on a beach for a Robinson Crusoe experience. Will he be able to survive on wild food? Chef Gill Meller and foragers John Wright and Monica Wilde lend their expertise.

This castaway coastal feast is something of a tribute to the 300th anniversary of the publication of Daniel Defoe's novel, a story itself inspired by the experience of a Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk who in 1705 survived for four years on a remote and uninhabited island in the Pacific.

Selkirk survived on wild cabbages, shellfish and goat meat, Dan and his forager friends try and recreate something of the sailor's desert island menu. But during their expedition an unexpected guest arrives on the beach, a real life, modern day Robinson Crusoe.

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the
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0:43.9	Hello, you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio 4's The Food Program.
0:48.9	Welcome to our world, from cooking to culture, politics to pleasure. We hope you enjoy it.
0:55.0	Let me ask you a question I'm sure you've asked yourself, how do you think you manage on a desert island?
1:08.0	How would you survive if you were stranded?
1:11.0	And most importantly, what would you eat? It's a question I've thought about a lot. When I was
1:14.0	the question I've thought about a lot. When I was young, reruns of occult 1960s black and white television series,
1:29.4	the Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, caught my imagination early on.
1:34.0	How would I manage in the role of castaway, I wondered?
1:38.0	Well, it's taken a few years, but I'm about to find out.
1:42.0	I've been stranded on a beach.
1:45.0	What?
1:47.0	They're falling.
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