Cookery Programmes

[lankeela]

Is there anything more pointless than a cookery programme on radio? Surely they could say anything and nobody would be any the wiser - ooh that cake looks delicious - how do you know they have even cooked a cake?

[Mamyalynne]

Which programme is this?

[lankeela]

Any programme on radio where they describe cooking something in the studio!

[Mamyalynne]

Never come across one, I know there are Food related programmes - maybe as someone who's partially sighted I should seek them out.

[ethandron]

I've never come across one either but I think I'd enjoy listening to it. I can imagine sitting there, listening to some delicious food being described and letting my imagination run riot. It could also inspire me to try something new.

[hc4361]

Jimmy Young used to have a cookery slot -what's the recipe today, Jim?
There used to a ventriloquist on radio, too.
There is a regular gardening slot from the allotment on Jeremy Vine.

[Mamyalynne]

If they give clear ingredient lists and methods etc it could work within a broader programme about nutrition for instance.

As you say Eth, some inspiration.

[MargoTester]

There's a cookery slot on Simon Mayo's drive time on a Thursday too, 5-7 Radio 2

[bhg481]

Terry Wogan used to have fireworks on the radio.

[hc4361]

There was also a pre recorded recipe of the day you could call on the telephone in the 1960s, I can't remember the number, though

[gness]

I'm a big radio fan but when I moved to Canada this first programme I heard on the radio was.....how to groom a Persian cat...... :-)

[Old_Geezer]

A ventriloquist act on the wireless is more pointless; and that's been done.

[FoxLee2]

Yes, Peter Brough and Archie Andrews was the dummy and then when you got to see Peter on TV, he was exposed as a terrible ventriloquist.