Cool As Leicester

We catch up with Ahmed who runs the Canteen street food events in Leicester and Market Harborough. Tune in to find out about their deliveries, favourite traders, best food accounts to follow on Instagram and advice for anyone looking to get into street food as a new trader. 

The pandemic has hit the fitness industry hard but local gyms and trainers are adapting to make sure everyone can access help and advice at home. We caught up with Andrew Gange, one of the guys behind Find Your Fitness in Wigston, about their at home training programmes and support. 

In this week's episode we catch up with chef and writer, Shivi Ramoutar. Shivi is now a regular on BBC's Saturday Kitchen and has a brand new book out, The Ice Kitchen, which is full of useful tips on how to maximise meals at home and save time using your freezer.  We also chat about memories of food in Leicester, surviving the Masterchef challenges and favourite restaurants.  Music from Cassius Povey.

LoyalFree has grown from Leicestershire beginnings to providing money saving and app based loyalty schemes across the UK. We catch up with them to chat about business, how you can still use the app during the lockdown and some of their favourite places in Leicester.  You can download the app from www.loyalfree.co.uk/download.    Music from Michael Vickers.  

Throughout lockdown Frank Turner has been performing gigs via Facebook to fundraise for live music venues. This week he's fundraising for The Shed here in Leicester. We caught up with him to find out more about it and to chat about his new album, which is out on Friday. 

We catch up with Leicester's own TV chef, Kwoklyn Wan, for some useful tips for cooking at home. If you're keen to take some new steps in Chinese cooking then listen in for Kwoklyn's suggested dishes and handy tips. As an ambassador for LAMP, Kwoklyn also talks about how cooking can help mental health and also chats about some of his favourite Leicester restaurants. 

We catch up with comedian and pub landlord Alex Hylton, fresh off the back of him winning Best Show at Leicester Comedy Festival Awards 2020.  We chat all about Naked comedy, the Leicester arts scene, beer and football during lockdown.  Music from Greg Poole.

We catch up up with Leicester Tigers' Greg Bateman to chat about how he's managing through the lockdown, his plans for life after rugby, brewing his own beer and what's next for Tigers.  Remaining bottle packs of People's Captain are available online from Milestone Brewery. Music from Mouth Culture.  Thanks for listening.  LIKE • COMMENT • SUBSCRIBE

We catch up with Melton Mowbray born comedian, Jon Pearson, about his new online comedy nights, Comedy Virtually Live, as well as pies, favourite comedy venues and more. Music from George Simpson. 

In our first ever Cool As Leicester podcast we chat to Pratik Master, the man behind Wigston Fields News & Deli and Lilu. We find out what Pratik's been doing to help the community during the coronavirus outbreak and we chat about food in Leicester and his Indian fine dining restaurant, Lilu. This week's music track comes from Chris D Bramley.