You’ve just come back from filming for NDTV. What was that about?
I’ve just come back from filming a forty part TV series in Delhi making British cuisine for over 80 million viewers. NDTV is one of the largest channels in India broadcasting globally so the audience was vast and diverse. I had to shoot twelve recipes a day in 48 degrees heat. It was hard work but fun. It was also very challenging and I wanted to quit on the second day but I am glad I didn’t because they all loved the dishes including fish and chips, mango crumble, the Irish Stew and Shepherds Pie. Did you face any problems out there in trying to get your audience to watch a cookery programme about British cooking? This was India’s first major lifestyle channel and it was a gamble for them. But they noticed how food and travel in Europe was a big hit so they thought it should work and it does. People seem to be hungry for recipes and that kind of lifestyle programming. The series I shot called ‘Cooking Isn’t Rocket Science’ was very different from what the audience had seen in the past
