Dr. David Pritchard

David Pritchard developed a passionate and undying love for food in the days of post-war rationing. This was when roast chicken was for the well-off, no one had heard of pizza and Spam fritters with chips and beans were the centrepiece of every boy's dream. He started work in the film vault at Southern Television and joined the BBC as a film editor in Newcastle-on-Tyne, eventually making it as a television producer when he discovered Keith Floyd in a restaurant in Bristol. He has also produced...See more

David Pritchard developed a passionate and undying love for food in the days of post-war rationing. This was when roast chicken was for the well-off, no one had heard of pizza and Spam fritters with chips and beans were the centrepiece of every boy's dream. He started work in the film vault at Southern Television and joined the BBC as a film editor in Newcastle-on-Tyne, eventually making it as a television producer when he discovered Keith Floyd in a restaurant in Bristol. He has also produced and directed all of Rick Stein's television programmes and is currently shooting the next series with Rick in the Far East. See less