Jack Stein, son of Rick Stein, is quick, charming and ever-so self-deprecatingly British. Jack is back in Australia again looking for new ideas for the Rick Stein restaurants in the UK and Australia.
This time he heads North-West to the spectacular Kimberley Region with its red cliffs, blue skies and opal green ocean. One of the most pristine areas in the world and one of the most dangerous too.
In Perth alone, over 100 restaurants in the city serve the cultural delicacy Shark Fin soup. Available on almost every Chinese restaurant menu, shark fin foods can command a price well into the hundreds for larger species. The practice of catching sharks, removing the fins, and throwing live sharks back into the ocean where they take days to die is the illegal and ethically fraught practice of shark finning.
Amanda Elizabeth, Marine Biologist and academic has been a pioneer in the crusade to end this illegal trade in Australia through her organization Fin Free Soup which raises awareness and affects change at a grassroots level. In Shark Soup Amanda Elizabeth goes behind the scenes in the shark fin trade, tracing the origins of where Australian restaurants source their fins from Hong Kong to Perth.
On a mission to find inspiration from across the Pond, Brit chef Jack Stein is in Australia’s South-West in search of a simpler way of life and other fish to fry in this factual, humour-driven series, where he explores the philosophy of food, natural produce and a new breed of unusual food producers achieving this international acclaim.
Meet Derek Nannup, a Noongar man from Western Australia; comic, actor, dancer, circus performer, didgeridoo player, much loved children’s hospital clown doctor as well as a cultural presenter for school kids and tourists. Derek’s jokes never switch off.
Meet Mark, Known as ‘The Black Olive’, a Bundjalung man from New South Wales. Mark is a well-known chef and television personality who specialises in native ingredients. Cooking for over 30 years around Australia and with many appearances across the world, Mark is famous for his charismatic personality and his unique creative approach to food.
But Derek doesn’t know how to cook. Mark generously offers to teach him, on the condition that Derek goes off to collect the fresh produce from around the countryside. Derek goes on the hunt, around the beautiful South-West of Western Australia – home to some of the best produce in the world.
Join Derek on his adventure to discover local food producers and watch as Mark opens up his culinary world to Derek, as the two cook up not only mouth-watering dishes, but a bit of fun too.
n pre-Independence India of the 1930s, Perth-born Nadia (aka Mary Evans) became Bollywood‚s first superstar: As Hunterwali, “The Woman With A Whip”, Nadia wore a black mask and tight-fitting shorts, rode like the devil and swung wildly from chandeliers, all while brandishing a whip, which she used liberally to flog an assortment of baddies!
As India‚s struggle for freedom from British rule gained momentum, Nadia’s ‘Hunterwali’ persona of a female Robin Hood who fought against oppressive gangsters gave voice to widespread social dissent. But behind the mask, Nadia hid a secret past, and was fomenting another, more personal revolution.
13 x 30 Lifestyle, Food series
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Anna shows us the food that she, her kids and her friends love plus the quick’n’easy ways to prepare them. And she’ll be doing it in her fun, funny, quirky, cheeky, sexy and irreverent way.
Quickies in my kitchen’ is designed for the time-poor, working couples and families who love great food and fun in the kitchen, but don’t have enough time.
Guests include:
Raelene Boyle – Olympian, Breast cancer crusader
Nick Sheppard – Ex The Clash, musician
Fiona O’Loughlin – Stand up comic
Sam Longley – Actor, stand-up comic, appears in Where the wild things are
Prof Fiona Wood – Burns guru, surgeon, mother of six
Ian Parmenter – Former TV chef & now vigneron
Lucky Oceans – dual Grammy winner, Radio National DJ, musician
David Wirrpanda – Ex Eagle, Wirrpanda Foundation
Belowsky – Stand-up rap poet
Manuela Darling Gassner – International culture and food book writer.
Neil Hansen – Movie and TV star in Italy for 25 years
Russell Blaikie – Award winning chef , Must Bars
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Arts & Entertainment 1 x 60 documentary
Joint winner of Best Documentary Award at Roma Fiction Film Festival.
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In 1977 these three men in frocks became an overnight sensation on Italian television. Tito Le Duc (a Mexican), Mauro Bronchi (an Italian) and Neil Hansen, (a boy from Perth) were three men in drag who gave one of the world’s most Catholic nation something to smile about at a time when Italy was a nation on the verge of a breakdown, suffering tremendous social and political unrest. Irreverent, sexy and outrageous, they were Le Sorelle Bandiera: The Flag Sisters.
The Vatican was little pleased, but nevertheless the Flag Sisters fame grew. Thirty years later, The Flag Sisters live on, their clips are regularly played on television, their music on radio and they are considered national treasures by many of those who experienced their artistry. Through reunions and interviews, and the extensive use of archival television and film footage, this documentary is not only a candid exploration of the drag phenomenon but a revealing record of Italy’s turbulent years, when a conservative society was confronted and transformed.
View and download the flyer here; The Fabulous flag Sisters Flyer
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LIFESTYLE ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCED BY CM FILMS
CO PRODUCER MARIAN BARTSCH
A journey into the outback, into culture, into country and a modern take on indigenous foods with Antonio Carluccio and Richard Walley.
Following 3 to 4 patients per episode, and intercutting their narratives, we experience powerful human stories, heart-warming, tragic and at times uplifting and inspirational. Beginning with the arrival of a new patient in the ED, we are immediately drawn into the drama as their condition is revealed and the resultant, lifesaving action begins. We look to the patient, their friends and family to help this story unfold, grounding the tale in reality, making for compelling viewing. The conclusion of each episode see some of these patients interviewed, several weeks after their time in the ED. It’s not only the physical injuries that leave scars. Having faced their own mortality, almost all are changed.