{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6400e542b6e2f500118aa533/6627b19bfd63ca001263902b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"A Totally Tremendous History of the TURNIP (Baldrick’s Favourite Vegetable)","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6400e542b6e2f500118aa533/1735480199589-056cf156-5d69-4811-99f5-778fb9e5b0cb.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>20 years after playing Baldrick, Tony is still stopped in the street and asked where my turnip is!&nbsp; Turnips made him famous, so today Tony is talking turnips in history: have they always been so unloved, a food fit only for animals and peasants like Baldrick, or is this a recent British bugbear? And when did the potato steal their veggie crown? Tony’s guests today are food historians Rebecca Earle and Serin Quinn alongside a chef for all seasons who loves to cook with turnips, Oliver Rowe.</p><p><br></p><p>Hosted by Sir Tony Robinson</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/tony_robinson?lang=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">X</a> | <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sirtonyrobinson/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram</a></p><p><br></p><p>With</p><p><br></p><p>Professor Rebecca Earle | <a href=\"http://www.rebeccaearle.co.uk/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.rebeccaearle.co.uk</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>An historian of food at the University of Warwick, Rebecca is interested in how ordinary, every-day activities such as eating or dressing shape how we think about the world and how others view us.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href=\"https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/people/staff_index/earle/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/people/staff_index/earle</a></p><p><br></p><p>Oliver Rowe | <a href=\"http://www.oliver-rowe.co.uk/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.oliver-rowe.co.uk/</a> | IG:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oliver_rowe_london/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@</a><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oliver_rowe_london/#\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">oliver_rowe_london</a></p><p><br></p><p>Chef and author whose work focuses on local and seasonal food. Oliver’s book, Food for All Seasons, a personal wander through the food year is published by Faber and available online and from all good bookshops.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Serin Quinn</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Warwick, interested in all things vegetable!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href=\"https://theconversation.com/turnips-how-britain-fell-out-of-love-with-the-much-maligned-vegetable-201007\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://theconversation.com/turnips-how-britain-fell-out-of-love-with-the-much-maligned-vegetable-201007</a></p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Follow the Show:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>X <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Cunningcastpod\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@cunningcastpod</a></p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Instagram <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cunningcastpod/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@cunningcastpod</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>YouTube <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@cunningcast/featured\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@cunningcast</a></p><p><br></p><p>Credits:&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald X <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Melissafitzg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@melissafitzg</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Executive Producer: Dominic de Terville</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Cover Art: The Brightside</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A Zinc Media Group production</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>If you enjoyed my podcast, please leave us a rating or review.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thank you, Love Tony x</p>","author_name":"Tony Robinson"}