The Hairy Bikers: Full Throttle Food

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Thirty years ago, Dave Myers, a specialist prosthetic make-up artist walked into a pub in Newcastle after scoring a job on a Catherine Cookson TV drama. Beyond the throng of TV crew sipping their white wine spritzers, he spotted the then assistant producer Si King, eating the pub's curry of the day at the pool table. He walked over, introduced himself and said to the landlord, "I'll have what he's having."

That was the moment one of the UK's most popular TV double acts was born. The Hairy Bikers' food travelogues, diet and campaigning programmes have been on our screens for more than two decades, and in that time Si and Dave have written 26 books. Self-proclaimed home cooks, their cheerful presenting style and on-screen banter have won them awards and scores of fans around the UK and the world.

In this programme Leyla Kazim asks Si and Dave how food and cooking have shaped their lives on and off screen, she hears the secrets to their enduring success, and hears from Stuart Heritage, TV critic for The Guardian, on why they still have much more road to travel together.

Presented by Leyla Kazim Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury

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1:01.6	Lila Kuzim getting very excited at the prospect of speaking for an hour with two very familiar TV cooks.
1:11.0	Boom!
1:12.0	After 25 years of biking around the world, the time has come for our most epic journey yet.
1:21.0	Sigh King and Dave Myers are of course collectively known as the Harry Bikers.
1:27.0	For more than two decades their big hair and big grins have whisked prime time TV viewers off on food adventures around the UK
1:36.2	and the world. Not to mention their programs on dieting, volunteering and a campaign to save Mills and Wills and in 2022 they're preparing to release
1:47.4	their 27th cookbook. But first it's a trip down memory lane. We're going back to Barrow Inn
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