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Two Fat Ladies
Television cooking programme
| Two Fat Ladies | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Jennifer Paterson Clarissa Dickson Wright |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company | Optomen Television for BBC |
| Network | BBC Two |
| Release | 9 October &#;()&#;– 28 September &#;() |
Two Fat Ladies was a British cooking programme starring Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright. It originally ran for four series – twenty-four episodes – from 9 October to 28 September , being produced by Optomen Television for the BBC. Since then, the show has been repeated frequently on the Food Network and Cooking Channel in the US and on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In the UK, the show has been transmitted many times on the satellite channel Good Food.
Overview
[edit]The show centred on Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright travelling the United Kingdom for most of the episodes, except for one episode in Ireland and a Christmas special in Jamaica, on a Triumph Thunderbird motorcycle driven by Paterson. It sported the registration N88 TFL (the British bingo call for number 88 is "Two Fat Ladies", initialised in the suffix "TFL" of the registration) and had
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A Life in Focus: Jennifer Paterson, co-star of TV cookery show ‘Two Fat Ladies’
Jennifer Paterson was a newly discovered national treasure and one of the most unlikely stars of the modern media circus.
It is hard to believe that the cookery programme Two Fat Ladies – each episode of which opened with Paterson and her co-presenter Clarissa Dickson Wright roaring into view on motorbike and sidecar – first entered the national consciousness only three years ago.
Several more series and international fame were to follow as the so-called “roly-poly” couple built up a huge following in America, Australia and across Europe. The delighted, tumultuous applause that greeted the Two Ronnies' Fat Ladies spoof at a recent Royal Variety Show showed how large a place Paterson and Dickson Wright had won in the public's heart.
Part of the joy of Two Fat Ladies lies in its incorrectness on all levels. Both presenters were militantly anti-vegetarian and anti-slimming. In the cookbook that accompanied the first series, 19 recipes – or receipts as Paterson insisted calling them – featured cream or double cream. Butter was equally generously employed and many dishes were accompanied by fried bread.
Even from a hygienic angle, the programme excited controversy. The sight of Paterson's be-