For those excited by the forthcoming Channel 4 Food Fight season (and who is’nt looking forward to see how Mr Blumenthal gets on) I have just received details of forthcoming programs:
Monday 26 January 2009 CHICKENS, HUGH AND TESCO TOO
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall took on Britain’s biggest supermarket, Tesco, in an audacious attempt to change the company’s animal welfare policy from the inside by becoming a shareholder. Following Hugh’s Chicken Out campaign, supermarkets nationwide sold out of free-range chicken. But Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco was still reluctant to talk to Hugh. This film reveals what happened next. Hugh also visits poultry farmers to find out if higher welfare indoor birds could provide the nation with more humanely-produced yet affordable chicken as people increasingly feel the pinch.
Tuesday 27 January 2009 GOK WAN: TOO FAT TOO YOUNG
How to Look Good Naked’s Gok Wan explores the rapidly growing problem of teenage obesity in the UK. On a candid and personal journey, he also addresses his personal teenage issues around food, and hears from leading experts about recent breakthroughs in tackling this national epidemic. Gok talks to young people, addressing the frightening extent to which they have been affected by food addiction. He tries to uncover why this age group is particularly susceptible to weight problems, while Dawn French talks about the body image pressures today’s teens are facing.
Thursday 29 January 2009 JAMIE SAVES OUR BACON
Britain’s pig farmers are going out of business. In this 90-minute programme Jamie Oliver wants to find out why; and to support farmers and help consumers to make better-informed choices by showing exactly how pigs live and die to put pork, ham and bacon on our plates. He investigates how UK farmers’ expensive higher welfare standards have left them open to competition from some mass producers from the EU, which minimise costs, but may have questionable levels of animal welfare. And he’ll be cooking cheap, but tasty cuts of pork to feed a family on a budget.
Friday 30 January 2009 RAMSAY’S GREAT BRITISH NIGHTMARE
Multi Michelin-starred chef Gordon Ramsay is back with his trademark mix of tough talking and inspirational leadership in a feature length, one-off special for Channel 4′s Great British Food Fight season. Gordon takes on two struggling ventures at once – one in the north, the other in the south – to help transform them in difficult times. Come the autumn, both are sticking to his rules and business is booming, but then the economic downturn begins to hit. Can Gordon triumph even over market forces?
