Katharine Whitehorn – författare

There is one powerful smell closely associated with the making of coffee in bedsitters. It is the smell of burning plastic, and will go away if you move the handle of the pot away from the flame.Legendary journalist Katharine Whitehorn''s classic handbook of quick, simple meals - including Swedish Sausage Casserole, Lamb Tomato Quickie and Shrimp Wiggle - became the essential survival manual for the busy single person living in their first rented room.Whitehorn''s trademark intelligent, practical and fabulously funny writing shines as brightly as ever, addressing the problems of ''cooking at ground level, in a hurry, with nowhere to put the salad but the washing-up bowl, which is in any case full of socks''. Delightful, entertaining and utterly indispensable.Praise for Katharine Whitehorn:''A meteor: clever, funny, compassionate, insightful, beautiful'' RACHEL COOKE''Everyone grabbed the Observer to read her column on a Sunday morning'' JILLY COOPER ''Wise, witty, mischievous'' JAY RAYNER

The witty and brilliant autobiography from legendary, beloved and groundbreaking journalist Katharine Whitehorn.''A book to treasure for its wit, honesty, good sense and warm laughter'' DAILY TELEGRAPHQ: A mother''s place?A: In the wrong.Much loved for her frankness and humour, Katharine Whitehorn was a legendary journalist who pioneered the first of the personal columns. She told us how it really was. She was funny - and smart. SELECTIVE MEMORY, her autobiography, is about childhood, motherhood, marriage and of course her pioneering work on Fleet Street.Praise for Katharine Whitehorn:''Everyone grabbed the Observer to read her column on a Sunday morning'' JILLY COOPER''Wise, witty, mischievous'' JAY RAYNER''A meteor: clever, funny, compassionate, insightful, beautiful'' RACHEL COOKE

Both series of the engaging romantic comedy set in a 1960s bedsit, inspired by Katharine Whitehorn''s cookery classicIt’s 1964, and 22-year-old Trisha moves into a West Hampstead bedsitter to escape her controlling suburban parents and her boring fiancé, Keith. She’s determined to make it as a swinging, get-ahead girl-about-town, but finds herself struggling with homesickness, loneliness and the challenges of cooking a decent meal on a single gas ring.Then she rescues a grotty wardrobe from her landlady’s attic, and it yields a surprising treasure – a copy of Cooking in a Bedsitter, which becomes her bible. Soon, she’s rustling up tasty treats for dinner parties and double dates – aided by Deepak, the dishy young medical student from across the landing.He introduces her to the delights of aloo pakora, she surprises him with a picnic at the seaside – but when their burgeoning relationship is snuffed out by Trisha’s parents, she moves on, to a different bedsit and a new man. She’s definitely over Deepak: or is she? If she wants him back, she’ll have to move fast – before he heads out of her life forever...Written by Sue Teddern (soloparentpals.com), and interspersed with recipes and extracts from Katharine Whitehorn’s original book, this appetising romcom stars Beattie Edmondson and Nikesh Patel.Production creditsWritten by Sue TeddernInspired by Cooking in a Bedsitter by Katharine WhitehornExtracts from Cooking in a Bedsitter read by Karen Bartke and Eleanor BronDirected by Emma HardingCastTrisha – Beattie EdmondsonDeepak – Nikesh PatelJune – Alison Belbin/Ellie DarvillLen – John Bowler/Rupert Holliday-EvansTony – John DougallKatharine Whitehorn – Karen Bartke/Eleanor BronJill – Natasha CowleyKeith/Mike – Finlay RobertsonThe Hunk/Stuart – Luke MacGregorMale Guest/Big Nev – Gavi Singh CheraFemale Guest/Sal – Catriona McFarlaneMoira – Isabella InchbaldRobert – Clive HaywardKarl – Adam FitzgeraldJulie/Clare/Susie – Abbie AndrewsPoliceman – Neil McCaulMalcolm – Gary DuncanErrol – Tayla Kovacevic-EbongFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 28 Nov-19 Dec 2016 (series 1) and 4 Dec-25 Dec 2017 (series 2).© 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd