Simple Cooking (BBC1, 2011)
A new eight part series for BBC1 starting in September 2011. Simple, understated cooking for everyday. Most of the recipes are available in The Kitchen Diaries and Tender Vol 1 and 2, available from the books section of this site.
Tender is now available in paperback http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tender-Nigel-Slater/dp/0007447892/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_10
Toast (Ruby Films, BBC Films 2010) A ninety-minute film of Nigel's award-winning autobiographical novel Toast by Ruby Films for BBC1. The film,
shot in various locations in the Midlands is directed by SJ Clarkson (Life on Mars, Mistresses, Whitechapel) and stars
Helena Bonham-Carter in the role of Mrs Potter. The screenplay is by Lee
Hall (Billy Elliot) and the cast list includes Ken Stott as Nigel's
father, Victoria Hamilton as his mother and Freddie Highmore (Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory, Finding Neverland) as the teenage Nigel. The cast
also includes Ben Aldridge, Matthew McNulty and Oscar Kennedy as the young Nigel. Toast was shown BBC1 at 9.00pm on
Thursday 30th December 2010 attracting 6.2m viewers and was shown at
Berlin Film Festival 2011. The film will be shown throughout the US in
Autumn 2011 and at the Taipei Film Festival. The DVD is now available. http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=dvd&ref=dp_dvd_bl_act&field-keywords=Nigel Slater Simple Suppers(BBC1, 2009, 2010)
Simple
Suppers won the Guild Of Food Writers Television Programme of
the Year 2010 and Nigel has been named as the Good Housekeeping Food
Awards Television Cook of the Year. A third series is currently in production. Nigel is a home cook, not a chef, as the straightforward, down to earth
cooking in this series shows. This is quick, simple food that is
within the capabilities of even the most inexperienced cook. Each
programme takes us through a week's worth of simple suppers which
explore the idea of cooking with our appetites rather than rigidly
following written recipes word for word. This is seriously relaxed
cooking filmed in Nigel's own garden and on friends' allotments. DVD is now available. http://www.amazon.co.uk/s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=dvd&ref=dp_dvd_bl_act&field-keywords=Nigel Slater Simple Suppers website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vt10m
A Taste of My Life(BBC2, Series 1 2006, Series 2 2007, Series 3 2008)
The story of what we cook and eat is in itself a form of autobiography. A Taste of my Life is three series of ten programmes made for BBC television that has allowed writers, actors and entertainers to tell their story through the medium of food. Produced and directed by Mark Adderley of Doghouse Films and based on the idea behind Nigel's autobiography Toast, the first series ran in Autumn 2006, the second in Spring 2007 and the third in Spring 2008. Guests have included the writers Alan Bennett and Meera Syal, the film director Richard E Grant, actors Vanessa Redgrave, Miranda Richardson, Brenda Blethyn, John Hurt, Timothy Spall, Sue Johnston, Liz Smith, Tamsin Grieg, Alex Kingston, Richard Briers, Max Beesley, Julia Sawalha, Keith Allen, John Barrowman, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Jane Horrocks, Angela Griffin, Thandie Newton, comedians Sanjeev Bhaskar, Jo Brand and Lenny Henry, Satirist Rory Bremner, cookery writer Nigella Lawson and the journalist and broadcaster Janet Street Porter.
Taste of My Life website: www.doghouse-media.co.uk
Real Food(Ch 4, 1998. Series 1 Available on 4oD at www.channel4.com)
Nigel's first television series Real Food was first shown on Channel 4 in 1998 and was produced by Frances Whitaker for Kudos Productions. The eight programmes featured guest cook Nigella Lawson and covered eight of Nigel's favourite passions from Ice Cream to Chocolate. They are regularly repeated. The book Nigel Slater's Real Food accompanies the series.
Nigel has also appeared on Gardener's World BBC2 (2011), Grumpy Old Men, BBC2, 2006, 2007; Eating With Nigel Slater, BBC 2, 2006, How Britain Got the Gardening Bug, BBC4, 2009
Radio
Nigel has appeared on Desert Island Discs, Gardener's Question Time, Front Row, The Food Programme and was a regular panelist on the Radio 4 series Curious Cooks. His autobiography Toast - the Story of a Boy's Hunger was serialised on Radio 4's Book of the Week.
Listen to Nigel on Front Row March 2011. Click here to listen on BBC iPlayer
