ITV needs Fenland Forager. Can you help?

[BobITV]

Hello

My name is Bob Brear and I am a producer on a new ITV show called Ade in Britain. It follows Ade Edmonson as he travels the country meeting traditonal food makers and local tradtional groups and events. From Sea Shanty groups to Molly Dancers to cheese rolling. The main of the show is Ade meeting people who make tradtional British food and produce in a tradtional way. Cheese makers, fishermen, windmills producing their own bread etc.

We are coming to the Fens this summer and are very keen on filming Ade foraging for ingredients. Ade put forward the idea as he loves the prospect of cooking a meal solely from foraged items. Do you or anyone else know of a great forager who would be good on camera and knows where all the best ingredients can be found.

Please contact me at bob.brear@itv.com if you can help or know someone who can.

Thank you

[Millymollymandy]

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[oldjerry]

Sorry ,dont know any fenland foragers,but we need a comic turn at our local at the end of the month,prehaps Mr Edmundson might be able recommend someone............preferably one that's funny enough to still make a living out of it.

[Susie]

I was going to say something mildly passive-aggressive about Heritage Britain-type programming sometimes being a tiny bit patronising but then I googled Molly Dancing and apparently it is very big in Cambridge. I am surprised by this as I thought all our time here was taken up by moaning about house prices and the guided busway, but no, apparently we have time for obscure variants of morris dancing as well! I can't decide if I'm encouraged by that or not.

[MKG]

Well, Oi takes exarption to that there. Yer see, that there Mollycoddle whatsat b'aint be any Marris darncin' loik wot I be knowing - 'n that there bloomin' Wikipaydia b'aint be knowin' wot it's tarking about.

Molly dancin' ain't Morris, puur n' simple, loik. 'N you cans take that from one oo as trod the loight farntastic with the best of 'em.

Molly darncin'? Hmmphh!!!

Do that Ade wotsisname be a Molly, then? Or be 'e a proper Morris man?

Mike

Edit: I know a couple of reasonable foragers in Bristol - won't they do? At least one of them is used to cameras (assuming that panic-stricken producers don't cock up the entire thing).

[Susie]

'N you cans take that from one oo as trod the loight farntastic with the best of 'em.

In time-honoured internet parlance, pics or it didn't happen

Agree with you about the Bristol foragers ;-).