Season 1

2011 · 20 episodes

Episodes

1North WalesActor and comedian Adrian Edmondson travels across Britain meeting traditional food producers and people continuing ancient customs. In the first edition, he visits North Wales, where he farms mussels by hand, watches sea-salt being extracted from the Menai Strait, discovers how clogs are made and prepares a local dish of bacon, mussels and leeks
2River Severn in GloucestershireToday Adrian Edmondson's quest to uncover British traditions and food takes him to the River Severn in Gloucestershire, where he cooks up a local delicacy of baby eels and finds out about the peculiar sport of shin-kicking at the annual Olimpick Games. He also meets breeders of old spot pigs before cooking an ancient gammon-and-apricot pie for a pipe-and-tabor player.
3Lancashire CoastToday Adrian Edmondson travels to the coast of Lancashire. He learns the art of making cheese, gets sticky making his own Blackpool rock, goes shrimping in Morecambe Bay and sings along with members of the George Formby Appreciation Society before cooking al fresco outside his caravan.
4FensToday Adrian Edmondson's quest to find British traditions and food takes him to the Fens, where he learns about the once-endangered Norfolk Black Turkey, tries to catch rabbits with ferrets, hears about the ancient art of eel-fishing and meets some step-dancers and puppeteers. He also cooks game pie.
5CumbriaAdrian Edmondson heads to Cumbria, where he gets to grips with making a Cumberland sausage, takes to the hills for the ancient sport of hound-trailing, tries to uncover the secret recipe for Grasmere gingerbread and cooks a dish for local wrestlers. He also tries a spot of sticky toffee pudding and damson gin.
6LancashireAdrian Edmondson travels around Britain meeting traditional food producers and learning about ancient customs. Today he is in Lancashire, where he gets up to his elbows in blood making black pudding, meets the owner of the last remaining temperance bar, visits 500-year-old Bury Market and cooks up a local dish for the Britannia Coconut Dancers of Bacup.
7CornwallToday Adrian Edmondson is on the trail of traditional British food and customs in Cornwall, where he learns how to make a controversial Cornish pasty, meets a farmer who builds his own traditional hedges, gets dressed up in a bee-keeping suit to collect honey and cooks up a local dish for a brass band.
8BakewellToday Adrian Edmondson is in Derbyshire, where he experiences farming life with Gritstone sheep, turns his hand to dry stone walling and visits the town of Bakewell to find out which dessert came first - the tart or the pudding. He also cooks up a local dish of lamb for the Winster Morris Dancers.
9ScotlandToday Adrian Edmondson is searching for traditional British food and customs in Scotland, where he helps to make and taste whisky, meets weight-throwers and caber-tossers at Strathmore Highland Games, get his hands dirty making bridies and cooks up a traditional dish for a group of hungry highland dancers in the grounds of Glamis Castle
10South WalesToday Adrian Edmondson is in South Wales finding out about local foods and traditions. He meets cockle-pickers at the Burry Inlet near the Gower Peninsula, makes his very own Welsh lovespoon, goes mackerel-fishing with skipper Alan Jackson in Swansea and cooks up a traditional dish of cawl for a male voice choir.
11CheshireToday Adrian Edmondson's quest to uncover traditional British customs and food takes him to Cheshire. He helps make Cheshire cheese, gets his hands dirty worm-charming, meets a world champion gooseberry-grower and makes jam before cooking Cheshire Cheese soup for a tic-tac man at Chester Races.
12DorsetToday Adrian Edmondson is in Dorset, where he treats some horn sheep to a manicure and hair cut before getting to grips with some traditional thatching. He also plants and harvests watercress and goes blueberry-picking before baking an apple cake for a group of stave dancers.
13NorfolkToday Adrian Edmondson is in Norfolk to seek out local food and traditions. He heads straight for the coast at Cromer, where he helps catch some of the famous crabs of the region. He also visits the Cromer and Sheringham Crab and Lobster Fair, where he tries to pick up the dialect from a local. Later, he pays a call on the last commercially working windmill that makes flour and prepares baked Cromer crab for the Sheringham Shantymen.
14DevonToday Adrian Edmondson is in Devon seeking out local food and traditions. He travels to Brixham Fish Market for the freshest catch, meets a pair of cob builders who make things out of mud and catches up with a man who distils his own gin. Then he cooks up a squab pie for Devon folk singer Seth Lakeman.
15North YorkshireAdrian Edmondson continues his quest to uncover local foods and traditions. Today he travels to North Yorkshire, where he discovers the ancient art of curing ham, meets a hornblower who performs the oldest daily ceremony in the world and makes one of Yorkshire's favorite sweet treats. He also prepares Yorkshire brack for the Muker Silver Band.
16LeicestershireToday Adrian Edmondson is in Leicestershire, where he meets the man who makes genuine Melton Mowbray pork pies, samples life in a monastery and helps make Stilton cheese. Later he cooks up Bosworth jumbles for the local handbell ringers group.
17South YorkshireToday Adrian Edmondson is in South Yorkshire, where he meets a local cattle farmer and joins a champion Yorkshire pudding-maker for a roast dinner. He also visits the Todmorden agricultural show, where he discovers the difference between forced and outdoor grown rhubarb, meets a liquorice-grower and makes a rhubarb pie for the Grenoside Sword Dancers.
18SomersetAdrian Edmondson heads to Somerset, where he gets stuck into mud fishing the traditional way, learns how to make a traditional willow coffin and tastes some apple brandies. He also cooks up Priddy oggy for folk duo Mrs Price's Parlour.
19NorthumberlandToday Adrian Edmondson is in Northumberland, where he helps to smoke kippers at Craster, takes a horse ride to Berwick-upon-Tweed and meets a couple who are mad about potatoes. Later on, he uses the kippers to cook pan haggerty for folk duo Becky and Rachel Unthank.
20KentToday Adrian Edmondson is in Kent on the hunt for local foods and customs. He learns how to make traditional bitter beer and heads off to the coast for the Whitstable oyster fair. Later, he meets a man who is nuts about cobnuts before cooking up cherry batter pudding for some local morris dancers.