The Hairy Bikers: Mums Know Best: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Si and Dave have undertaken a nationwide search for Britain's lost recipes – those forgotten gems or secret scribbles handed down through the generations – to help create a massive database of tasty and achievable recipes.

But it's also a call to arms; the series aims to bring together grannies, mums and daughters who love to cook, to ensure that these precious historical documents of our shared national cuisine are preserved for the future.

At the heart of each programme is the Mums Know Best Recipe Fair, an event suffused with nostalgia for village fetes of your childhood, crossed with the Hairy Bikers' extraordinary range of international influences. It's a space for mums to swap their favourite recipes, cookery anecdotes and tips. Curated by Food Historian Gerard Baker - a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme - all the invited guests are asked to bring along their favourite family recipes and cooked examples. He and his team compile them for the Mums Know Best Recipe Board for the other mums to copy down.

Series details

• Title: The Hairy Bikers: Mums Know Best
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Food
• Premiere date: 2010-01-05
• Final broadcast date listed: 2011-03-29
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC Two
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 11046
• TVDB ID: 133261

Cast and credited roles

• Dave Myers — Dave Myers
• Simon King — Simon King

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2010-01-05; final listed air date 2010-02-09; episode order: 6.
• Season 2: premiered 2011-02-10; final listed air date 2011-03-29; episode order: 8.

Source and licence

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