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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Michael Berkeley's guest is the food writer and campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has long been passionate about food 鈥 not just about what we eat and how we cook it, but about how it鈥檚 produced and the wider environmental consequences of our appetites.

He first appeared on our TV screens in 1995 in A Cook on the Wild Side - foraging for roadkill and frying up woodlouse fritters, earning him the nickname Hugh Fearlessly-Eats-it-all.

He went on to document his early attempts as a smallholder trying to produce seasonal, ethical food in the River Cottage series on Channel 4. Out of this came the highly successful River Cottage Cookbook. Over two dozen books have followed 鈥 the latest of which is How to Eat 30 Plants a Week.

He鈥檚 also enjoyed success as a food campaigner. Hugh鈥檚 Fish Fight brought about changes in fisheries law at the European level, Britain鈥檚 Fat Fight examined the national obesity crisis and War on Waste challenged supermarkets and the fast food industry to change how they operate.

Hugh's music choices include Beethoven, Schubert, Verdi and Keith Jarrett.

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52 minutes

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Sun 30 Jun 2024 12:00

Music Played

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Brindisi (La Traviata)

    Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Singer: Roberto Alagna. Choir: London Voices. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Verdi per due.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
    • 19.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No.6 in F "Pastoral" (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer.
    • Beethoven: Complete Symphonies.
    • Naxos.
    • 301.
  • Van Morrison

    Connswater

    Singer: Van Morrison.
    • Inarticulate Speech of the Heart.
    • Legacy Recordings.
    • 2.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Barber of Seville (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Enrique B谩tiz.
    • Orchestral Lollipops: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Enrique Batiz.
    • RPO.
    • 1.
  • John Barry

    Joe Buck Rides Again (Midnight Cowboy)

    Conductor: John Barry.
    • Midnight Cowboy (Music From The Motion Picture).
    • EMI/EMI Records (USA).
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata No. 18 in G Major, D. 894 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonatas Nos. 17 & 18.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 7.
  • Amjad Ali Khan, Amaan Ali Khan, Ayaan Ali Khan & Satyajit Talwalkar

    Raga for Peace

    • 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Concert.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Turkish March (The Ruins of Athens)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

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  • Sun 30 Jun 2024 12:00

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