Rick Stein's Cornwall

20213 seriesEntertainment / Cooking
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Rick Stein reveals the Cornwall that he knows and loves: a unique part of the British isles with a strong sense of identity and a history rooted in its Celtic past. With his famous natural inquisitiveness, Rick shares the road less travelled.

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Episode 1Rick Stein's Cornwall

Episode 1. Rick Stein takes a trip back in time to his early days running a nightclub in Padstow.

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Episode 2Rick Stein's Cornwall

Episode 2. Rick travels to St Ives to meet one of Britain’s little-known artists, Alfred Wallis.

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Episode 4. Rick recounts the tale of the Mermaid of Zennor.

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Episode 5Rick Stein's Cornwall

Episode 5. Rick roams the dramatic north Cornish coast to tell the story of Thomas Hardy.

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Episode 6. Rick heads out of Newquay to catch a Cornish king crab.

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Episode 7. Rick boards the ferry in Penzance to take him to the Isles of Scilly.

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Episode 8Rick Stein's Cornwall

Episode 8. On a visit to a dairy, Rick meets a man who is paid to eat 700 samples of cheese a week.

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Episode 9. Rick is in Falmouth, discovering Cornwall's role in the Empire’s communication system.

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Episode 10Rick Stein's Cornwall

Episode 10. Rick goes on a tour around the beautiful Camel Estuary with a professional forager.

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Episode 11. Rick joins a team diving for clams and sees beautiful copperwork at the Penlee Museum.

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Episode 12. Rick discovers how the Cornish landscape influenced the work of Turner.

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Episode 13. Alongside the River Tamar, Rick visits a little-known mausoleum with a macabre story.

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Episode 14. Rick learns about a time when the Cornish were taken as slaves by North African pirates.

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Episode 15Rick Stein's Cornwall

Episode 15. Rick visits the Rame Peninsula, far from the traditional tourist track.

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