TV and radio picks

Competitive cooking

This month sees the climax of three of the BBC’s most popular cookery competitions. On BBCfinalists may miss the opportunity to fly to a culinary hotspot, but they do get to cook at Le Gavroche for The Chef’s Table. contenders still produce the most extraordinary food on BBC Two, and the speedy chefs on BBC One conjure up miraculous doable dishes from the simplest of ingredients. You can watch them all on BBC iPlayer.