The Hairy Bikers: Dave Myers and Si King; TV chefs and best-selling authors

Desert Island Dishes

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

My guests today are The Hairy Bikers, whose real names are Dave Myers and Simon King.

Dave previously worked as a make-up artist, for the BBC where he specialised in prosthetics. Si worked for many years as an Assistant Director and Locations Manager for film and television, including the Harry Potter films.

The pair met on the set of a TV drama 23 years ago and discovered that they found they shared a love of riding motorbikes, cooking – and eating. Since then their popularly has soared, they have gone on to have countess TV shows and they have written more than 20 successful cookbooks which is pretty impressive!

Desert island dish:

starter: Italian Salumi

Main Tournedos Rossini

Pudding: banana crème brulee and cheese board

Luxury item:

Dave: motorbikeSi: Sharp knives

I definitely had a little fan girl moment trying to invite myself to supper – pretty sure I wanted to nominate myself to be the 3rd hairy biker – but I don’t quite have the beard for it…

Don’t forget to come and find me on Instagram. I’m @madebymargie where I share recipes, more desert island dishes inspired food and I’d love to see you there.

Thanks for listening!

Bye!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Margie and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast. This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven desert island dishes. These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood, the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last
0:22.8	dish they would choose to eat before being cast off to the Desert Island. I can't quite believe
0:29.2	who my guests are today. I was over the moon when Dave and Sye said that they would come on
0:34.4	and share their Desert Island dishes with me. And my goodness,
0:38.1	they did not disappoint. Two of the nicest men I've met and so many delicious goodies in this
0:44.3	one. And as always, when you're recording something, we turned out to be next to what I think
0:50.1	was a bottle bank. So apologies if you can hear the bottles in the background.
0:55.5	My guest today are the Harry Bikers, whose real names are Dave Myers and Simon King.
1:01.6	Dave previously worked as a makeup artist for the BBC, where he specialised in prosthetics.
1:07.9	Cy worked for many years as an assistant director and locations manager for film and television, including for the Harry Potter films.
1:15.8	The pair met on the set of a TV drama 23 years ago and discovered that they shared a love of riding motorcycles, cooking and eating.
1:25.3	Since then, their popularity has soared. They've gone on to have countless
1:29.5	TV shows, and they've written more than 20 successful cookbooks, which is pretty impressive.
1:38.8	So a very warm welcome to Dave and Cy, aka the hairy bikers, aka the hairy dieters. You've had a name change.
1:47.6	We have. We've been hairy bakers in the past as well. Yeah, we just keep changing a word.
1:53.0	Yeah, well, you better not cut your hair, otherwise. That would be a terrible thing. Lines on its way
1:57.5	out, I think. I feel a little bit ignorant because I didn't know the backstory of how you guys met was way back in 1995 on the set of a TV drama.
2:07.6	Oh, 92.
2:08.3	92.
2:09.4	Oh, apologies.
2:10.1	The gambling man.
2:11.3	Catherine Cookson with Robson Green.
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