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A Good Read: Aasmah Mir and Pete Brown at Bristol Food Connections Festival

Series 754, episode 1

The literary review returns as Harriett Gilbert attends the Bristol Food Connections Festival. Joined by Aasmah Mir and Pete Brown, she examines gastronomic essay The Physiology of Taste by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, and John Lanchester's 1996 novel The Debt to Pleasure, a dark comedy that references Brillat-Savarin's work. They also turn their attention to Moth Smoke, the first book by Mohsin Hamid, the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Cast (unconfirmed)

Harriett Gilbert
Aasmah Mir
Pete Brown