Dave Myers dead at 66: Warm-hearted Hairy Biker who helped democratise cooking TV
by David Ellis
Feb 29, 2024
3 minutes
When and Simon King quite literally roared onto television screens 20 years ago — in black leathers, on old bikes, and tearing through Portugal for their pilot episode — the pair instantly became a revelatory force in food programmes. The Noughties may have been a slightly more relaxed time for telly than the Eighties and Nineties, when it was largely dominated by privately-educated eccentrics or frowning French masters, but two Northerners parking their coughing motorcycles in little known parts
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