Some 30 years ago I found myself working with David Pritchard, a director who turned the late Keith Floyd into a TV star. He had first encountered Floyd, glass in hand, chaotically running a Bristol ...

It’s one of the dominant genres on TV, yet most food programming TV is distinctly lacking in flavour. You know the drill. Somebody stands behind a worktop in an unconvincingly clean kitchen that ...

Chefs have been popping up on our screens pretty much since TV was invented – from the old-school Philip Harben to modern-day celebrity cooks like Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay. Yet over the years, ...