The British Food History Podcast · Neil Buttery
From the Vaults: Fanny Cradock with Kevin Geddes
·47 min·2 clips
She was a phenomenon - a fabulous creation all of her own making who cooked on British TV screens nonstop from 1955 to 1975.
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A sharp rethink of Fanny Craddock as a performer who built a memorable TV persona.
Neil Buttrey and Kevin Geddes revisit Fanny Craddock with a useful corrective to the usual caricature. The best material is about how she sold a television persona: the fixed look, the firm delivery, the cooking as lifestyle pitch, and the sense that viewers were meant to read…
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