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Mark Cunningham braces himself for our very intelligent questions So you’ve got your small cube of human brain and twenty hours….what do you do next? Luckily for us, between conferences in Kenya and Brazil, neuroscientist Mark Cunningham finds time to call into the BKR kitchen. So we ply him with wine and ask the fine details of what a neuroscientist actually does. Live improvised music by Paul Bradley  

Julia Carver and James Cook Fine art curator Julia Carver talks about a once in a generation opportunity at the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery and the works that most excite her in the new international contemporary art collection. We force her to choose one special painting from the gallery’s permanent exhibitions. James Cook has just moved to Bristol Head of Arts and Poetry for BBC Radio. He explains what a Head of Poetry actually does and we ask him to read us his favourite poem.

Our friend Matt: “I know someone who is buying up all the goats in the country.” So, James Whetlor and Sushila Moles come to the BKR kitchen and tell us about Cabrito. James Whetlor and Sushila Moles     Live improvised music by Paul Bradley

Laura Hart and Claire Thomson It is always a good idea to invite a baker and a chef round for a recording. They bring food.  Bristol baker Laura Hart, of Hart’s Bakery, talks about the importance of doing one thing well. Claire Thomson, of Flinty Red Restaurant swaps chef’s whites for a 5 0′clock apron. Music by Paul Bradley. Below, Claire and Laura as they were ten years ago at Quartier Vert. and as chefs at Quartier Vert  

Paul Bradley sharing a joke with Pete Judge, Alex Vann and our winners We held a competition for our listeners and Three Cane Whale fans to win the chance to come into the BKR kitchen and hear Three Cane Whale perform in what must be the smallest venue ever.  Here are some highlights from the evening. Three Cane Whale play music from their new album Holts and Hovers and describe how they recorded it in some of their favourite places. Holts and Hovers is not yet on general release, but once it is we will be stocking it in our store cupboard.

Gina Griffin Internationally acclaimed fiddle player Gina Griffin talks about her musical upbringing and how she found herself in France playing five-hour long gigs. Here she plays traditional tunes and two of her latest songs. But to start us off, Vic invites Ed Drewitt round to the kitchen to convince Ellen that  dinosaurs can be interesting, especially if they lived locally.  Ed tells us the story of the Bristol dinosaur, which was found just ten minutes walk away, and explains its  international importance. Ed Drewitt and some replica bones    

Gavin Strange and Tim Loftus bring their bikes with them to the kitchen Despite knowing each others work, Gavin Strange, Senior Designer for the digital department of Aardman Animations, and Tim Loftus, boat builder, based at Underfall Yard meet for the first time in our kitchen. Gavin tells us about his love of fixed gear bikes, his documentary film BÖIKZMÖIND, and his alleycat race Fixed n’ Chips. Tim talks about building boats down at Bristol Docks and impresses Gavin with his handmade wooden bike. Improvised live music from Paul Bradley.

When Jo Chow and Allison Chow of Wai Yee Hong supermarket came round we had no idea that we would be getting an education in the history of Chinese food in the UK. Allison traces her roots from her parents' restaurant, 'The Lantern House' in North London,

 As we couldn't get the piano down the stairs, this episode of BKR comes from our sitting room.  Playing the piano is composer and musician Colin Tully who tells us about writing the score to landmark film Gregory's Girl, and performing on a Eurovision

Documentary maker Colin Thomas tells us about his forthcoming vook 'The Dragon and the Eagle', an interactive ebook telling the story of the Welsh in America. Poet Ralph Hoyte declaims us a poem, and we all stand, packed around the table, as Welsh mixed v

Coffee and Chocolate are two of our favourite things. In this show we talk in depth to master coffee roaster Frank Deane of Two Day Coffee Roasters about first crack, finding the sweet spot, and how the origins of coffee echo that of mankind. Chocolatier

Belfast man Michael Harkness on how growing up on the Shankill Road in the 1970s fitted him for life on a Caribbean island. Michael and his wife Odalis visit us from Margarita, a small island off Venezuela to talk about Chavez, bookshops, revolution, snip

BAFTA award winning animator Emma Lazenby calls round to talk about her forthcoming Channel 4 film, History of an Orange, based on the life of her Citroen Dyane. Also live in the kitchen the band who provide the soundtrack to her animation, Three Cane Wh

We had been thinking about talking to these two on separate shows, but when we found out that Jonathan Dovey, of Bristol's Pervasive Media Studio, and Jonathan Coles, aka DJ Dad, were old friends we just had to invite them round at the same time. Ellen a

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