A comedienne & a humor writer try their hand at living in different eras. They dress, eat, and live the past. Before and after, their vitals are tested to see how these lifestyles affect their health.
Genre: History
Cast:Giles Coren , Sue Perkins , Roy Marsden , Allegra McEvedy , Mickael Weiss , Sophie Grigson , Rosemary Shrager , Mary Berry , Valentina Harris , Roy Hattersley , Juliet Gardiner , Anton Mosimann , Tim Armstrong , Jean Broke-Smith , Patrice Martineau , Humphrey Ker , Emma Manton , Amanda Harris
Giles Coren and Sue Perkins travel back to the decade of their own adolescence; the 1980s.
Sue and Giles sample the food and lifestyle of a Lord and Lady in medieval England.
Living like King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Giles and Sue experience 1790's France.
Giles and Sue take a look back at 1950's Britain. With rations ending, food culture slowly began to change.
Giles and Sue go further back then ever, finding out what garum - a ubiquitous ingredient in the Roman kitchen in almost anything - actually was. And that some of the typical British dishes are in fact Roman.