A ninety-minute film of Nigel's award-winning autobiographical novel Toast is being filmed by Ruby Films for BBC1. The film,
currently being shot in various locations in the Midlands and the Black
Country, is directed by SJ Clarkson (Life on Mars, Whitechapel) and stars
Helena Bonham-Carter in the role of Mrs Potter. The screenplay is by Lee
Hall (Billy Elliot) and the cast list includes Ken Stott as Nigel's
father, Victoria Hamilton as his mother and Freddie Highmore (Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory, Finding Neverland) as the teenage Nigel. The cast
also includes Ben Aldridge, Matthew McNulty and Selina Cadell. Simple Suppers(BBC1, 2009, 2010)
(Series 2 currently in production)
Nigel is a home cook, not a chef, as the straightforward, down to earth
cooking in this series shows. This is quick, simple food that is
within the capabilities of even the most inexperienced cook. Each
programme takes us through a week's worth of simple suppers which
explore the idea of cooking with our appetites rather than rigidly
following written recipes word for word. This is seriously relaxed
cooking filmed in Nigel's own garden and on friends' allotments. A second series is in production.
Simple Suppers has just won the Guild Of Food Writers Television Programme of the Year 2010 and Nigel has been named as the Good Housekeeping Food Awards Television Cook of the Year.
A Taste of My Life(BBC2, Series 1 2006, Series 2 2007, Series 3 2008)
The story of what we cook and eat is in itself a form of autobiography. A Taste of my Life is three series of ten programmes made for BBC television that has allowed writers, actors and entertainers to tell their story through the medium of food. Produced and directed by Mark Adderley of Doghouse Films and based on the idea behind Nigel's autobiography Toast, the first series ran in Autumn 2006, the second in Spring 2007 and the third in Spring 2008. Guests have included the writers Alan Bennett and Meera Syal, the film director Richard E Grant, actors Vanessa Redgrave, Miranda Richardson, Brenda Blethyn, John Hurt, Timothy Spall, Sue Johnston, Liz Smith, Tamsin Grieg, Alex Kingston, Richard Briers, Max Beesley, Julia Sawalha, Keith Allen, John Barrowman, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Jane Horrocks, Angela Griffin, Thandie Newton, comedians Sanjeev Bhaskar, Jo Brand and Lenny Henry, Satirist Rory Bremner, cookery writer Nigella Lawson and the journalist and broadcaster Janet Street Porter.
Taste of My Life website: www.doghouse-media.co.uk
Real Food(Ch 4, 1998. Series 1 Available on 4oD at www.channel4.com)
Nigel's first television series Real Food was first shown on Channel 4 in 1998 and was produced by Frances Whitaker for Kudos Productions. The eight programmes featured guest cook Nigella Lawson and covered eight of Nigel's favourite passions from Ice Cream to Chocolate. They are regularly repeated. The book Nigel Slater's Real Food accompanies the series.
Nigel has also appeared on Grumpy Old Men, BBC2, 2006, 2007; Eating With Nigel Slater, BBC 2, 2006, How Britain Got the Gardening Bug, BBC4, 2009
Radio
Nigel has appeared on Desert Island Discs, Gardener's Question Time, The Food Programme and was a regular panelist on the Radio 4 series Curious Cooks. His autobiography Toast - the Story of a Boy's Hunger was serialised on Radio 4's Book of the Week.
