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10 Episodes 2023 - 2023
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
On the super quiet western Pembroke peninsula, Rick experiences the needs to drive back on one way-roads heading for Carn Euny, the county's best preserved archaeological site of the unique Cornish court yard house type, with an even more mysterious underground space. Rick enjoys the auction at Truro's weekly cattle market, one of only two surviving in Cornwall, also a major rural social gathering. It inspires him to bake a steak and kidney pier, then clear his head sailing along on a restored traditional wooden boat.
Episode 5
Rick visits Europe's largest tea plantation bordering river Fal, inspired to bake a luxury tea bread based on dry fruits. he enjoys swimming at Penzande in he UK largest open air sea water swimming pool, a king George jubilee memorial. He finds how romantic Cornwall and its miserable labor conditions inspired many authors, including Charles Dickens including his famous 'A Christmas Carol'.
Episode 6
Episode 7
After a quickly-made North African spicy omelet-like breakfast, Rick boards south of Padstowe the famous King Harry chain ferry across the scenic river Fall. It and a car ride bring him to a favorite organic, experimental non-profit farm, which grows without digging rare vegetables and herbs, ideal for original salads, especially neglected bitter flavors boosting immunity in winter. Rick reminisces about light-classical and film composer Malcolm Arnold in the pub where they became drinking buddies and at his Cornish home, where he kept an Oscar for Bridge On River Kwai song Colonel Bogey and wrote Cornish works, mainly the - Dances.
Episode 8
Rick explores the natural resources that made now sleepy backwater Cornwall one of the richest corner of the British isles for a long time. Since Antiquity, mining has been extensive, from copper, tin and iron ore to coal for the Industrial Revolution, and various rarer minerals. It was a backbreaking, dangerous hard life for laborers, often under Dickensian conditions, but gathered fortunes for owners. Furthermore, many foods are grown or harvested from the sea.
Episode 9
Rick present his beloved Cornwall as home to the arts. The romantically inspiring landscape attracts ever more artists, and from ever further, like a potter. Weather prevents joining the fishery fleet, but he serves sea bash jubilee style. Hvaing enjoyed it with beer, he hes asks his son Charlie, a wine expert, to select a well-paired one from the growing range in this booming English industry. Finaly a visit to Laucneston, home of favorite World War II poet Charles Causley, working class went to the Royal Navy, settled -living with his widowed mother- as primary teacher.
Episode 10
Rick finishes near his home town Padstow, along the northern, perhaps most sightly Cornish coast, so poor in natural harbors that Elisabteh I had one painstakingly constructed in Boscastle, where sailing ships were hauled in by thick ropes, also used later at various points to launch rescues lines by rockets. By the surfing beaches, he visits wood-hidden seafood restaurant and minster which was built by a poet preacher. next Cornwall's first and only organic mushroom grower and the home of romance author Rosamunde Pilcher, many of whose novels set all over Cornall were filmed by German ZDF, 16 including a Padstow estate, among the beneficiaries of German language fan tourism.