The Full English

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• Civilised food – with Fuchsia Dunlop

  October 6, 2026 · 47 min

  And we’re back. After almost two years the Full English podcast is back! I've been busy writing a book: The Full English: The Ways We Eat and Why is out now with Verso. We’re kicking off this new season of the podcast with a truly…

• Floyd and Stein with John Merrick

  February 13, 2025 · 1 hr 14 min

  It's the final episode of the Full English and we're talking about Rick Stein and Keith Floyd, two of the most popular cooks on TV in Britain. Lewis is speaking to the editor and writer John Merrick. Find his essay on Stein here. The…

• Fergus Henderson with Zoe Williams and Amber Husain

  November 19, 2024 · 54 min

  Fergus Henderson! The man who thirty years ago opened St John and ever since has implored us to eat from "nose to tail". Lewis Bassett talks to Zoe Williams, columnist at the Guardian newspaper, and Amber Husain, author of Meat Love: An…

• Jamie Oliver with Rachel Roddy

  October 15, 2024 · 46 min

  The only person who has sold more books in Britain than Jamie Oliver is J. K. Rowling. Jamie has been watched and read by millions. His enthusiasm for food is often infectious. His cooking and his campaigning have changed the way we…

• Alexis Soyer with Pen Vogler and Miranda Carter

  October 2, 2024 · 55 min

  Alexis Soyer cooked for the rich and poor alike. He transformed elite restaurant kitchens in London with new technologies such as gas stoves and he provided nourishment to the starving in Ireland and the battered and the bloody during the…

• Elizabeth Raffald with Neil Buttery

  August 20, 2024 · 46 min

  The most influential cook that you've probably never heard of, according to food historian Neil Buttery. Elizabeth Raffald captured the distinctly modern English food of the 18th century. The Heston Blumental of her time, inspiring cooks…

• Madhur Jaffrey with Mayukh Sen

  August 5, 2024 · 58 min

  Obviously we were going to do an episode about Madhur Jaffrey, and so here it is. Madhur Jaffrey: the actress who taught British and American audiences how to cook Indian food. Lewis Bassett speaks about Madur with Mayuk Sen, author of…

• Ken Hom with Angela Hui

  July 16, 2024 · 52 min

  Ken Hom taught the British how to cook Chinese food, but Chinese takeaways showed us what it was in the first place. Lewis Bassett talks to journalist Angela Hui about Ken's impact and about her book Takeaway: Stories From a Childhood…