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It is always a good idea to invite a baker and a chef round for a recording. They bring food. Bristol baker Laura Hart, of Hart’s Bakery, talks about the importance of doing one thing well. Claire Thomson, of Flinty Red Restaurant swaps chef’s whites for a 5 0′clock apron.
Music by Paul Bradley.
Below, Claire and Laura as they were ten years ago at Quartier Vert.
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We held a competition for our listeners and Three Cane Whale fans to win the chance to come into the BKR kitchen and hear Three Cane Whale perform in what must be the smallest venue ever. Here are some highlights from the evening. Three Cane Whale play music from their new album Holts and Hovers and describe how they recorded it in some of their favourite places.
Holts and Hovers is available to buy in our store cupboard.
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Gina Griffin
Internationally acclaimed fiddle player Gina Griffin talks about her musical upbringing and how she found herself in France playing five-hour long gigs. Here she plays traditional tunes and two of her latest songs.
Ed Drewitt begins the show by telling us the story of the Bristol Dinosaur, which was found just ten minutes walk away, and explains its international importance. Driving down the M5 will never be the same.
Ed Drewitt and some replica bones
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Gavin Strange and Tim Loftus bring their bikes with them to the kitchen
Despite knowing each others work, Gavin Strange, Senior Designer for the digital department of Aardman Animations, and Tim Loftus, boat builder, based at Underfall Yard meet for the first time in our kitchen. Gavin tells us about his love of fixed gear bikes, his documentary film BÖIKZMÖIND, and his alleycat race Fixed n’ Chips. Tim talks about building boats down at Bristol Docks and impresses Gavin with his handmade wooden bike. Improvised live music from Paul Bradley.
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Allison Chow and Jo Chow of Wai Yee Hong
When Jo Chow and Allison Chow of Wai Yee Hong supermarket came round we had no idea that we would be getting an education in the history of Chinese food in the UK. Allison traces her roots from her parents’ restaurant, ‘The Lantern House’ in North London, via SeeWoo in Soho’s China Town, to Eastgate in Bristol. Jo talks about growing up in a supermaket and explains how she makes use of Twitter and other social media.
Bristol street food traders Katie Houston and Kim Glegg of Katie and Kim’s Kitchen on Stokes Croft tell, with much hilarity, the slightly surreal origins of their horsebox cafe, coming second in the British Street Food Awards, and their commitment to quality ingredients.
Katie Houston and Kim Glegg of Katie and Kim's Kitchen
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As we couldn’t get the piano down the stairs, this episode of BKR comes from our sitting room. Playing the piano is composer and musician Colin Tully who tells us about writing the score to landmark film Gregory’s Girl, and performing on a Eurovision number one hit. Rob Mitchell of Firstborn Creatives talks about his work as a Creative Media Producer, including projects on Bristol’s Pero’s Bridge and the 1963 Bristol bus boycott.
Live music performed by Colin Tully, who plays extracts from Gregory’s Girl film score, and improvised music by Paul Bradley with a special improvised number by Paul and Colin at the end of the show.
Below is Colin’s Eurovision moment (at about 2 minutes in).
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Cor Eos preparing to sing. Colin Thomas far left. Jan Edwards third from left
Documentary maker Colin Thomas tells us about his forthcoming vook ‘The Dragon and the Eagle’, an interactive ebook telling the story of the Welsh in America. Poet Ralph Hoyte declaims us a poem, and we all stand, packed around the table, as Welsh mixed voice choir Cor Eos filled the kitchen (and the rest of the house) with song.
Once completed, ‘The Dragon and the Eagle’ will be available through iTunes. For further information on Cor Eos contact us and we will pass you on.
Poet, Ralph Hoyte
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Frank Deane, coffee roaster.
Coffee and Chocolate are two of our favourite things. In this show we talk in depth to master coffee roaster Frank Deane of Two Day Coffee Roasters about first crack, finding the sweet spot, and how the origins of coffee echo that of mankind.
Chocolatier James Hutchins, of James Chocolates empties a satchel of luxury handmade chocolates onto our kitchen table, explains how he experiments with new flavours and lets slip that he was the first person in the UK to produce chilli chocolate.
James Hutchins of James Chocolates
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Belfast man Michael Harkness on how growing up on the Shankill Road in the 1970s fitted him for life on a Caribbean island. Michael and his wife Odalis visit us from Margarita, a small island off Venezuela to talk about Chavez, bookshops, revolution, sniper-fire and escapism.
Michael and Odalis outside their kitchen on Margarita with baby Eirinn
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BAFTA award winning animator Emma Lazenby calls round to talk about her forthcoming Channel 4 film, History of an Orange, based on the life of her Citroen Dyane. Also live in the kitchen the band who provide the soundtrack to her animation, Three Cane Whale.
Three Cane Whale tune up with Emma Lazenby
Emma describes the making of History of an Orange using animation techniques from the 1970s, when the car was built. She also tells us what brought her to Bristol and about her work with ArthurCox with whom she made her BAFTA award winning film Mother of Many inspired by her mother’s long career as a midwife.
Three Cane Whale, whose debut album was named recently as one of Cerys Matthews’s top five modern folk albums, perform music never recorded before, including the soundtrack to History of an Orange and Elsie and Ruby, dedicated to the two lucky children who survived being thrown off the Clifton Suspension Bridge by their father.
Paul Bradley makes us up a song and reads a poem by Ellen’s dad, Mike Hughes, written on the tiles of the hydrotherapy pool room at the Bristol Royal Children’s Hospital.
Mother of Many from emma lazenby on Vimeo.
