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Podcast: Desert Island Dishes
Episode: James Martin: one of Britain's best-loved chefs and King of Saturday morning television
Description: For the season finale my guest is James Martin.
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James has been a mainstay on our tv screens since the mid 1990’s. It’s safe to say that Saturday mornings wouldn’t be the same without him with his hugely popular shows on the BBC’s Saturday Kitchen and now Saturday Mornings with James Martin on ITV.
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He appeared on the Big Breakfast but it was arguably his role on Ready Steady Cook – a show that changed food television - that catapulted him to the kind of fame usually reserved for boy bands. A...