All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Wales

    • August 9, 1995
    • Channel 4

    Out on the road, Hugh attempts to fish for his evening meal, a white witch stirs him up a rejuvenating brew and a former poacher shows him how to trap a rabbit for a stew flavoured with the day's gatherings - honey.

  • S01E02 Suffolk

    • August 16, 1995
    • Channel 4

    Hugh goes in search for some Norfolk poachers to help him hunt game for a pie and with help seeks out wild plants as flavourings. At the end of the day, Hugh has all the ingredients but worries about the ethics of a poacher and a gamekeeper sitting at his table.

  • S01E03 Cornwall

    • August 23, 1995
    • Channel 4

    In search of a diet with low cholesterol and less cost Hugh encounters two vegans who try to convert him to their philosophy of eating and continues his search for the prize fish for his soup.

  • S01E04 New Forest

    • August 30, 1995
    • Channel 4

    In this episode Hugh abseils down a cliff in search of samphire, and is cooked a weird meal by a group of travellers. He brings dessert - gooseberry icecream, made from berries collected earlier that day.

  • S01E05 Scotland

    • September 6, 1995
    • Channel 4

    Hugh scours the Western Isles in search of a free meal and goes scuba diving for scallops, before learning how to make heather ale.

  • S01E06 London

    • September 13, 1995
    • Channel 4

    Hugh heads to London to see what its wild larder offers. Having turned down Trafalgar Square pigeon he heads to suburbia in search of garden snails, which contribute to the evening's feast - snails in garlic butter, grilled mullet and summer berry pudding.

Season 2

  • S02E01 The Bain Marie

    • March 13, 1997
    • Channel 4

    The Bain Marie is christened and launched in March, when signs of spring are extremely thin on the ground. As Hugh peers over the steering wheel at the dreary, cold landscape, he is soon…

  • S02E02 Up the River Severn

    • March 20, 1997
    • Channel 4

    Hugh wends his way up the river Severn, a route which is simultaneously being taken by millions of baby eels - or elvers - who have miraculously found their way here from their birthplace…

  • S02E03 Heading Salt Side

    • March 27, 1997
    • Channel 4

    Hugh is leaving behind the inland waterways and heading "salt side", chugging his way towards a seashore forage in the Wash, but first he must run the gloomy gauntlet of the depressingly…

  • S02E04 Yorkshire

    • April 3, 1997
    • Channel 4

    Hugh's waterborne zig-zag across Britain brings him to heart of Yorkshire, along canals formerly bustling with the boom of the textile industry. At the peak of the industrial revolution…