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Hugh invites Kathy Burke, Mark Heap and Stephen Mangen for a River Cottage Christmas. Only to find that Kathy hates Christmas and Stephen hates all things goaty. He takes Kathy fishing for Bass, Mark cuts the tree, and gets Stephen up close and personal with a goat.

The Hairy Bikers, Si and Dave, explore the world of gourmet food cooked on a budget, and throw a big bash for a deserving group of volunteers at a city farm in Wales.

BBC2  Primetime.

A new series from the River cottage stable.

A fast turn around half hour series, stripped across the week, each episode shot in half a day and cut in 5.

Three non cooking actors (Felicity Kendel, Philip Glenister and Keeley Hawes) pay a visit to river cottage to take home some tips on how to cook and get a crash course in the river cottage way.

In 2001 an 11kg gold cauldron was pulled out of a lake in southern Bavaria. We follow the story of this cauldron to The Nazi stronghold of Wewelsburg Castle, spiritual home of the SS. Discovering who made it and why. Through the cauldron we uncover the secrets behind the nazi’s belief in the occult.

Nazi temple of doom from james marshall on Vimeo.

Welsh Poet Laureate Ifor Ap Glyn goes on a journey of discovery to find out how the toilet developed. From the first water closet belonging to  Queen Elizabeth I  to the electric washing toilets of Japan, we see how our ancestors coped with their waste and how the toilet could evolve into a box that converts poo into energy.

Clive James in the Telegraph wrote:

“With a script far more attractive than its subject, The Toilet: an Unspoken History (BBC Four) is surely destined to win every prize. The writer-presenter Ifor ap Glyn covered the subject brilliantly. He well recognised that covering is the very least we want to do with the subject. We would rather wash it away, as the Romans learned to do, and as we in Western civilisation had to learn to do all over again hundreds of years after the secret was lost.

Before the secret was rediscovered, you were lucky if you were noble enough to take a dump from a hole under the castle battlements. In today’s world, there are still more than two and half billion people with no access to any mechanism with the essential component, an S-bend. It’s that little lake of water that traps the smell. Before it was invented, everything, and everyone, stank.

Bill Gates has spurred 22 separate universities to work on a possible device for turning human ordure into energy. A prototype exuded a flash of blue light. It looked challenging, like the Japanese vertically squirting toilet that can be such a shock if you have not been warned. In Japan you soon learn to check out the control panel of a toilet before lowering yourself into position. Gates’s version might fire you into orbit.

There was plenty of opportunity for humour but ap Glyn kept his terse prose focused on the easily forgettable fact that a state of nature is a killer, and only technology can save the millions of lives that would otherwise be taken by disease. This was documentary film-making at its most grown up.”

the toilet an unspoken history from james marshall on Vimeo.

The Hairy ones tour the country meeting their food heroes and cooking up British delicacies in their Best of British Kitchen.
6 x 45′ (of 30) BBC2 and 3 x 59′ (of 10) BBC2 Prime time.

TwoFour productions for Channel 4
What happens when an average family is confronted with every high tech gadget imaginable? How will they relate to their high tech gadgets? Which bit of tech will they like and use most. Strangely its not what you think. My episode is on Sunday 26th Feb at 7pm http://www.homeofthefuture.tv/

Sadly Confidential is no more. These behind the scenes films gave the fans another hour of the good doctor immediately after the main episode went out.