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Radio Trailer –

Everyone loves a nibble whether it’s a custard cream a ginger nut or even a pink wafer. Biscuits have been a key feature of people’s interaction

Are you a dunker?

When it comes to the crunch. Monday at 8 on ITV

Documentary –

Biscuits are all around us. They come in all shapes and sizes, stacked high in shops. Biscuits have been a big thing for every generation. We use them for all purposes, to eat, to sell and to even raise money for charities like Pink Day which raises money for breast cancer charities.

(Context – introduction – cut away of biscuits – introduces pink day)

Over time biscuit recipes have become much bigger with celebrity chefs like Delia Smith creating recipes which have become part of the nation’s consciousness. Kids enjoy making them as much as adults, which is something which has been picked up by schools to develop children’s cooking skills.

(context – archive material of Delia Smith – introduces cooking teacher)

Fanny Cradock and her husband John presented ITV’s first cookery programme featuring biscuits in 1955. It’s a very British tradition to greet our friends with a cup of tea and a biscuit.

(context – archive material of Fanny Craddock – introduces pensioners)

In 1991 biscuits hit the headlines with a court case which gripped the nation, it took a legal ruling to decide what many had argued about for years. Are jaffa cakes biscuits or cakes?

(context – Jaffa cake archive – introduces jaffa cake debate)

Biscuits have stormed the news worldwide influencing us as a society so so much.

(context – news archive – final cuts)