Rick Stein's Cornwall
Rick Stein's Cornwall is a TV show on BBC2. Rick Stein shares his love and passion for the people and places of his beloved Cornwall. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 40 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in April 2025.
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30:00Rick Stein's Cornwall
Rick roams the dramatic north Cornish coast to tell the story of Thomas Hardy - one of Britain's best-loved writers - and his little-known love affair with a Cornishwoman.
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30:00Cornwall has more than its fair share of folk tales; Rick recounts perhaps the most famous of them, the tale of the Mermaid of Zennor, near Land's End in this episode.
30:00Rick meets Springwatch presenter and biologist Gillian Burke, who takes him on a walk through a rare habitat called an Atlantic temperate rainforest on the banks of the Helford River.
30:00Rick travels to St Ives to meet artist Alfred Wallis and visits a very rare collection of medieval stained-glass windows in the church of St Neot in the shadow of Bodmin Moor.
30:00Rick takes a trip back in time to his early days running a nightclub in Padstow before making the ultimate fish pie with some deliciously plump pollock.
Series 1
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30:00As Rick's Cornish odyssey comes to an end, he takes a city break in Truro, where he discovers an unusual ghost story and tours the magnificent cathedral.
30:00Rick explores the history of West Penwith - the most westerly place in mainland England - and follows an ancient track in search of Cornwall's oldest building.
30:00Rick is at Tintagel in Cornwall, the birthplace of the tale of King Arthur - later, he explores the role of Methodism in Cornish history and meets a family who grow saffron.
30:00Rick travels across the Roseland Peninsula - starting at a spot thought to have been visited by Jesus - before visiting picturesque St Mawes and the attractive village of Mousehole.
30:00Rick explores the post-war British modern art movement in St Ives, fishes for a mullet on the Lizard Peninsula, and learns about Cornwall's unusual emblem at Land's End.
30:00Rick heads into china clay pits to discover what is known locally as white gold - one of Cornwall's most important industries - cooks a simple sea bass, and visits his niece at Land's End.
30:00At Golitha Falls - where the River Fowey tumbles down to the sea - Rick meets Dawn French, who has made Cornwall her home. Later, he boards the world's busiest chain ferry.
30:00Rick heads out to sea on the wild north Atlantic coast to go fishing for lobsters with his old friend and celebrity chef Nathan Outlaw, then helps to cook a lobster risotto.
30:00Rick explores one of Cornwall's hidden secrets - the secluded and stunning Fowey Estuary - and makes a delicious pancake with a wild blackberry compote and Cornish clotted cream.
30:00 30:00Rick meets good friend, actor and comedian Barry Humphries, who fell in love with Cornwall in the 1960s when he escaped London to develop his now-famous character Dame Edna Everage.
30:00Rick discovers an unusual superstition and a rare type of Norman castle in Launceston, before meeting musicians Graham Fitkin and Ruth Wall in the far west of Cornwall.
30:00Rick meets young chef Tom Adams, who runs Combeshead Farm, a leading field-to-fork restaurant in Cornwall. Rick then tries out a new recipe - pork chops with a sloe berry sauce.
30:00Rick takes us to meet an extraordinary family who are making some of the best Gouda cheese in Britain and discovers the origins of the sea shanty in the fishing village of Mevagissey.
30:00Rick takes us to the place where his passion for Cornwall began - his family home at Trevose Head on the north Cornish coast, where he would go fishing with his father as a child.