A Life Through Food: Matt Tebbutt

A Life Through Food: Matt Tebbutt

From The Food Programme by BBC Radio 4

May 1, 2026 · 42 min

About this episode

Jaega Wise interviews chef and broadcaster Matt Tebbutt about his life and career in food.

Jaega Wise meets chef and broadcaster Matt Tebbutt at home in South Wales, to discuss his "Life Through Food". Matt has been presenting Saturday Kitchen Life on BBC One for almost a decade, but before he was a TV Presenter he worked as a chef - first in professional kitchens in London (he was in fact sacked by Marco Pierre White) and later ran his own gastropub in south Wales. It was his cooking there at The Foxhunter - which he ran with his wife Lisa - that first got him noticed by the media, and an appearance on the second ever series of the Great British Menu. To discover what life is like on set for Matt, Jaega also pays a visit to the studios of Saturday Kitchen Live as they are rehearsing, to see how the live cooking show is put together week after week. She meets the team in the backstage "engine room" - the test kitchen - and discovers what they mean when they talk about "heroes", and finds out what happens at 11.30am after the cameras get turned off. Plus she chats to wine expert Olly Smith about Matt's career and the friendship they've developed while working in food tv. Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Natalie Donovan

People in this episode

Host: Jaega Wise

Guest: Matt Tebbutt

Topics covered

  • chef life
  • broadcasting
  • cooking shows
  • food media
  • career journey

Keywords

  • Matt Tebbutt
  • Saturday Kitchen
  • cooking
  • food television
  • gastropub

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC One, The Foxhunter, Great British Menu, BBC Audio

Places: South Wales, London, Bristol

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