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Season 2
March 13, 1997

Season 2

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall trawls Britain's wild larder again, exploring our canals and rivers on the eccentric Bain Marie, which is half canal barge, half tugboat and all kitchen.

01. The Bain Marie

The Bain Marie is christened and launched in March, when signs of spring are extremely thin on the ground. As Hugh peers over the steering wheel at the dreary, cold landscape, he is soon…

24min
March 13, 1997

02. Up The River Severn

Hugh wends his way up the river Severn, a route which is simultaneously being taken by millions of baby eels - or elvers - who have miraculously found their way here from their birthplace…

24min
March 20, 1997

03. Heading salt side

Hugh is leaving behind the inland waterways and heading "salt side", chugging his way towards a seashore forage in the Wash, but first he must run the gloomy gauntlet of the depressingly…

24min
March 27, 1997

04. Yorkshire

Hugh's waterborne zig-zag across Britain brings him to heart of Yorkshire, along canals formerly bustling with the boom of the textile industry. At the peak of the industrial revolution…

24min
April 3, 1997