The thing about the Marcus Wareing programme is that he's saying he's a beginner but it just looks as though he either bought the most pristine smallholding in the country or bought one and paid other people to turn it into the most pristine smallholding in the country!
He does give the back story. His family bought the small holding five years ago. They have used it as a country home and it was managed by the gardener they show. Marcus wanted to turn to growing his own so is being taught by the gardener and various locals.
@Fire Admittedly I may have missed the backstory from flitting between the kitchen and living room but I did get the impression from the opening that he was going to be throwing himself into learning something new. I was just expecting it to be a real hands on fish-out-of-water gardening/cooking mash-up. Still good though 🙂
I did get the impression from the opening that he was going to be
throwing himself into learning something new. I was just expecting it to
be a real hands on fish-out-of-water gardening/cooking mash-up.
He is. It is. And he has help. Not a repeat of Clarkson's Farm. Marcus still runs Mich star restaurants and heads MasterChef - not retired
Don't know anything about Clarkson's Farm, not a Clarkson fan. I was expecting something a bit more like The Wild Gardener in format where it showed where it started out to how it progressed with the highs and lows. Obviously there's a big difference in levels of experience between Marcus and Colin Stafford-Johnson, Marcus's programme just feels more like it's skipped to the end and we've missed out on a big chunk of his learning process.
I'm really enjoying the Tales from a Kitchen Garden. For 30 min programmes, they cover a lot of ground. This episode shows how one grower progresses public green waste into compost.
@Fire thanks for the tip about the History of Writing series - I'd missed it first time round. Just watched the first one, with the magnificent Irving Finkel on the cuneiform tablets.
@Pianoplayer lol, I have met the magnificent Irving Finkel and have done a cuneiform workshop with him at the British Museum. I got to play with stylus and clay tablets. So much fun. He is truly as magnificent as he seems. A national treasure.
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He is. It is. And he has help. Not a repeat of Clarkson's Farm. Marcus still runs Mich star restaurants and heads MasterChef - not retired
One of the best dramas on TV ever.
Can I stay up until 10?