"Like many, I remember Charlie Hicks from Veg Talk, a weekly show that ran on Radio 4 from 1998-2005. The show, according to Sheila Dillon, came into being after her interview with Charlie, a fourth-generation fruit and veg supplier at Covent Garden market, for an episode of The Food Programme exploring where chefs bought their produce. Sitting at the kitchen table with her husband the following evening, Sheila recounted her day and Charlie's enormous knowledge, enthusiasm and ability to communicate both."
"As well as Charlie's market report, each episode included a feature called vegetable of the week and the participation of studio guests Angela Hartnett, Alastair Little, Rose Gray, Darina Allen and Mitch Tonks, to name just a few and took calls from listeners. The show had its critics in a 2005 interview with the Independent, broadcaster Andy Kershaw is quoted as saying, This show should have been strangled at birth but it also had legions of fans (myself included),"
Charlie Hicks presented Veg Talk, a weekly Radio 4 programme from 1998 to 2005, drawing on his role as a fourth-generation fruit and vegetable supplier at Covent Garden market. Each episode offered a market report, a vegetable-of-the-week feature, studio guests and listener calls. The programme combined practical market intel with scholarly knowledge, informed by decades of working the markets, cooking with his wife Anna, talking to growers and reading. The show attracted both critics and devoted listeners who valued Charlie's expertise, humour and warm delivery. Charlie also supplied specialist produce such as puntarelle to London restaurants in the 1980s.
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