BBC2, London
13 March 2007
Using food to chart life's ups and downs, Nigel Slater took John on an emotional biographical journey, via his mother's chicken casserole and banana bread, sister Carole's brocolli pizza and friend Suranne Jones's 'bin chicken'. Then there was a side order of a tub of caviar, as experienced on a first-class trans-Atlantic flight with mega-diva Shirley Bassey.