Rick delves into the stories of those who worked in Cornwall’s mines, from the men who laboured in extreme heat a full hour’s journey beneath the earth's surface to the young women known as 'bal maidens', who earned their living breaking rocks with heavy sledgehammers.\n\nIn the heart of mining country, he discovers a church with some astonishing 600-year-old wall paintings, which rank amongst Britain’s greatest church treasures. And after a merry visit to a maker of botanical spirits, he adds a cheeky nip to his version of the 'platinum pudding' created for the late Queen’s platinum jubilee.
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Series 2: Episode 9
Rick is in Falmouth, discovering that far from being 'that bit on the end of Britain’, Cornwall used to be at the very heart of the British Empire’s communication sy ...
08-03-2025
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Series 2: Episode 8
On a visit to a dairy, Rick meets a man who is paid to eat 700 samples of cheese a week and cooks his sumptuous cheese and chive scones. His next stop is the salty old fishing t ...
01-03-2025
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Series 2: Episode 7
Rick boards the ferry in Penzance to take him to the Isles of Scilly, a group of islands which were once part of Cornwall. Here, he finds out about the islands’ rich histo ...
22-02-2025
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Series 2: Episode 6
Cornish king crab is on the menu for Rick as he heads out of Newquay to catch and cook this tasty crustacean.\n\nAfterwards, he takes a trip inland to Bodmin Moor to meet Robin ...
15-02-2025
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Series 2: Episode 5
Following in the footsteps of one of his literary heroes, Rick roams the dramatic north Cornish coast to tell the story of one of Britain’s best-loved writers, Thomas Hard ...
08-02-2025
BBC 2
Series 2: Episode 4
Cornwall has more than its fair share of folktales. Perhaps the most famous is found near Land’s End, where Rick recounts the tale of the Mermaid of Zennor.\n\nA short dis ...
01-02-2025
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Series 2: Episode 3
Rick meets Springwatch presenter and biologist Gillian Burke, who takes Rick on a walk through a rare habitat called an Atlantic temperate rainforest on the banks of the Helford ...
25-01-2025
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Series 2: Episode 2
Rick Stein travels to St Ives to meet one of Britain’s little-known artists, Alfred Wallis. In the shadow of Bodmin Moor, Rick visits a very rare collection of medieval st ...
18-01-2025
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Series 2: Episode 1
Rick Stein takes a trip back in time to his early days running a nightclub in Padstow before a bracing dip in Bude's stunning sea pool. Then Rick braves the notoriously wild Atl ...
04-01-2025
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Series 3: Episode 10
Rick drops in on the fishing port of Boscastle and finds a fabulous seafood restaurant in a building that once housed rockets used to fire safety ropes out to sinking ships. A t ...
26-07-2024
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 8
On the wild north Atlantic coast, Rick heads out to sea to go fishing for lobsters with his old friend and celebrity chef Nathan Outlaw and learns about a revolutionary new cons ...
26-07-2023
BBC 2
Series 2: Episode 12
Following in the footsteps of Turner, one of Britain’s most loved artists, Rick discovers how much the Cornish landscape influenced his work. At Newlyn Fish Market, Rick c ...
22-08-2023
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 10
Rick heads into the bowels of Cornwall, deep into the china clay pits to discover what is known locally as white gold, one of this county’s most important industries. He t ...
28-07-2023
BBC 2
Series 2: Episode 5
Following in the footsteps of one of his literary heroes, Rick roams the dramatic north Cornish coast to tell the story of one of Britain’s best-loved writers, Thomas Hard ...
08-02-2025
BBC 2
Series 2: Episode 11
Rick joins a team diving for razor clams, which he takes back to the kitchen to make a quick but tasty dish of grilled shangurro clams. At the end of Newlyn Pier, Rick visits a ...
21-08-2023
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Series 1: Episode 13
Rick is at Tintagel, Cornwall’s most mythical location, where he discovers that it was an important trading port with Europe and the birthplace of perhaps Britain’s ...
02-08-2023
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Series 3: Episode 2
Rick meets the author of The Salt Path, Raynor Winn, and her husband Moth in the ancient apple orchard where she and Moth make delicious cider, filtered through straw, in the wa ...
05-03-2024
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Series 3: Episode 3
Rick visits Europe’s largest tea plantation beside the River Fal in Cornwall, where conditions are just right for the perfect cuppa. He indulges in his greatest pleasure, ...
06-03-2024
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Series 2: Episode 10
In our fields and hedgerows are plants that are delicious as well as plants that are deadly, as Rick learns from a professional forager who takes him on a tour around the beauti ...
18-08-2023
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 3
Rick Stein meets young chef Tom Adams, who runs Combeshead Farm, a leading field-to-fork restaurant in Cornwall. Here they grow and produce all of their own food, from sourdough ...
19-07-2023
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