Release Date

18 Mar, 1999

Total Episode/Season

95/16

Synopsis

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, celebrity chef, television personality, journalist, food writer, and campaigner on food and environmental issues, leaves London to pursue an ambition of self-sufficiency, growing his own vegetables and raising his own animals in Dorset.

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Escape to River Cottage

18 Mar, 1999

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall goes in search of an alternative lifestyle. He's constantly on the lookout for free food, and also grows his own vegetables, fruit and herbs and rears his own stock.

Return to River Cottage

14 Jan, 2000

Return to River Cottage is the second series of the Channel 4 programme that follows Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall during his second year of living in the country at River Cottage, Dorset after leaving the city behind. The preceding series was Escape to River Cottage.

River Cottage Forever

18 Jul, 2002

River Cottage Forever is the third in the hugely popular "River Cottage" Channel 4 series franchise, following on from Escape to River Cottage and Return to River Cottage in which chef and journalist Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall de-camped from the rat-race of city living to move to the rolling hills of the Dorset countryside, which provided the perfect backdrop for his experiment to live off the fat of the land in as self-sufficient a style as possible; tucked away at the bottom of one of the Dorset valleys is the ideal home: River Cottage.

Tales from River Cottage

25 May, 2006

This is the story that details Hugh's three years as a smallholder in Dorset.

Beyond River Cottage

01 Oct, 2004

Beyond River Cottage is the fourth series of the Channel 4 programme that follows Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as he pursues the ideal of rural self-sufficiency as a farm-owner in Dorset.

The View from River Cottage

19 Oct, 2005

Looking back at his life at River Cottage Hugh discovers that he has learnt a set of rules - or principles - to grow by, to cook by and even to live by. This series distils the River Cottage experience into six main principles for living Hugh's simple life: being thrifty (nose-to-tail eating), making the most of the wild larder, getting the best of what is local and seasonal, celebrating food with friends and neighbours, growing your own fruit and veg, and killing for the pot.

River Cottage Road Trip

30 Nov, 2005

Join Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstal in two one-hour specials, as he embarks on the River Cottage Road Trip. In a quest to find fresh culinary inspiration, Hugh decides to explore new territory, leaving his business behind and heading North to find some regional recipes to bring back home. His journey starts in Dumfriesshire, where he learns how to hunt for and make haggis. In Cumbria he shoots his first teal and barbeques it for lunch with a kebab of its heart and kidney. Then, in exchange for a lakeside tepee pitch in the Lake District, he agrees to cook a lakeside ingredient-based feast for the revellers of the Coniston Water Festival.

The River Cottage Treatment

02 Nov, 2006

Hugh is bringing his message to the masses. Each week Hugh invites a different group of urban dwelling, fast food loving non-cooks to spend a week at his River Cottage HQ. It's a clash of food cultures, as they come to the farm, meet the livestock, grow and forage, and even kill for a meal they can truly call their own.

River Cottage: Gone Fishing

08 Nov, 2007

River Cottage: Gone Fishing is a Channel 4 programme that follows Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as he explores more sustainable fishing methods in the Channel Islands, Scotland and back in the West Country.

River Cottage: Spring

28 May, 2008

River Cottage Spring is a Channel 4 programme that follows Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall at his Dorset home and teaching school River Cottage throughout the spring of 2008, harvesting crops, cooking organic food, teaching families to be smallholders and challenging Tesco against the source its chicken products.

River Cottage: Autumn

16 Oct, 2008

River Cottage Autumn is a Channel 4 programme that follows Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall at his Dorset home and teaching school River Cottage throughout the autumn of 2008, harvesting crops, cooking organic food, and foraging food.

River Cottage: Summer's Here

03 Jun, 2009

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall returns to River Cottage for the summer, experiencing and celebrating the best produce it has to offer.

River Cottage: Winter's on the Way

12 Nov, 2009

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall returns to River Cottage to harvest the best seasonal food that the cooler months have to offer. River Cottage: Winter’s On The Way follows Hugh as he cooks and tastes his way through the abundant crops on offer and provides the definitive guide to locally produced, seasonal food. Hugh raids River Cottage’s kitchen garden to show viewers they can enjoy a slice of any season, River Cottage style, wherever they live, with tantalising recipes. Leaving no seasonal favourite behind River Cottage - Winter’s On The Way celebrates the season’s best and freshest, whether from the wild, the garden or the shop shelf.

River Cottage: Every Day

23 Sep, 2010

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is back with 'River Cottage Everyday'. Hugh takes River Cottage back to the nation demonstrating that his philosophy has relevance and a use for everyone on a daily basis.

River Cottage: Veg Every Day

16 Oct, 2011

Hugh spends the summer as a vegetarian, to see what simple pleasures are being overlooked. Travelling the UK in search of committed veggies, Hugh learns all about a new world or flavours from all corners of the globe that have one thing in common - no meat allowed.

River Cottage: Three Go Mad

05 Sep, 2012

Hugh throws open his doors to three celebrities for a two-day cookery master class at River Cottage farm, including fishing, foraging and tasty food. What could possibly go wrong?

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