23 December: We love sprouts
This week Gregg Wallace joined us to share his tip top sprouts recipe, willingly sampled by our poet Murray Lachlan Young.
Roberta Greenhalgh came out in sympathy for all those stuck at airports this Christmas by telling her tales of travelling woe after 911, and the back end of a pantomime horse gave us his unique view of the world. We found out what makes Nicholas Parsons go tic toc tic toc, heard hair raising tales from a professional ghost hunter, and learnt how to make jam courtesy of a special canning podcast. Plus a Crisis volunteer shared her Inheritance Tracks.
Update:
Listen again to this edition of Saturday Live (23 December 2006).
Gregg Wallace generously credited himself with a pioneering role in the promotion of locally grown produce. Many people have been doing this for years, without him and without access to a regular slot on R4. Since he indicated that he now wished to move on - had been there, and done that, and ready to take on a new challenge - perhaps he could simply join those who have been for many years promoting and practising organic gardening and farming. Did he miss the excellent Farming Today This Week earlier on R4 on Saturday, discussing organic produce and its distribution, with intelligent and reasoned contribution from Riverford Organic Vegetables about this? Also many people grow their own vegetables and fruit organically, in gardens and allotments. There is no organic produce offered at my local farmers' market. Gregg Wallace needs to catch up if he wants to move on.
Complain about this postM Clarke
having listened to the introduction of the programme, I thought I would listen throughout in order to hear how Gregg Wallace cooked his sprouts. However, when he asked the presenter if she wanted proportions etc. she said "I couldn't care less" I am therefore none the wiser. Just because your presenter couldn't care less, the listner might.. Also what is the point of promoting the article?
Complain about this postGregg Wallace said that he had exhausted the scope of the work he enjoyed in publicizing fresh locally grown vegetables, and he said he was looking for another project.
I cannot think of a better one which is closely related to it - campaigning to make people aware of the massive threats to local food growing land from all sorts of infrastructure developments.
Especially as the government is proposing to weaken local control over planning decisions, so as to speed up large developments which will threaten open land and Green Belt.
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