Rick Stein's Cornwall
Rick Stein's Cornwall is a TV show on SBS ONE. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 40 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in September 2025.
Last episode
28:52
28:52Rick Stein's Cornwall
Rick takes us to the Rame Peninsula. Far from the traditional tourist track, this part of Cornwall is famed for its cliffs and beaches. It’s also where he meets a beachcomber who has found some remarkable objects washed up on the shore. In mining country, Rick explores the histo...
Catching up on Rick Stein's Cornwall?
Don't want to miss an episode anymore? Set up a free alarm and receive an email when new episodes are available. Handy!
28:41In the town of Looe, Rick discovers a time when the Cornish were taken as slaves by Barbary Pirates. He joins one of the last fishing boats in St Mawes and uses the catch of Lemon Sole to make a delicious warm salad. In Newlyn he meets with two entrepreneur chefs who are cooking mackerel to perfection.
29:01On the banks of the River Tamar, Rick visits a little-known mausoleum with a rather macabre story.
28:48Following in the footsteps of Turner, one of Britain's most loved artists, Rick discovers how much the Cornish landscape influenced his work.
29:01Rick joins a team diving for Razor Clams, which he takes back to the kitchen to make a quick but tasty dish of grilled Shangurro Clams.
29:03In our fields and hedgerows are plants that are delicious, and plants that are deadly, as Rick learns from a professional forager who takes him on a tour around the beautiful Camel Estuary.
28:54Rick’s in Falmouth to discover that far from being that ‘bit on the end of Britain’, Cornwall used to be at the very heart of our Empire’s communication system and is still very much a working port today.
28:56Could you eat 700 samples of cheese a week? On a visit to a dairy, Rick meets a man who is paid to do just that.
28:59Rick boards the ferry in Penzance to take him to The Isles of Scilly, a group of islands which were once part of Cornwall.
28:53Cornish King Crab is on the menu for Rick tonight as he heads out of Newquay to catch and cook this tasty crustacean.
28:54Following in the footsteps of one of his literary heroes, Rick roams the dramatic north Cornish coast to tell the story of one of Britain's best loved writers, Thomas Hardy, and his little-known love affair with a Cornish woman.
28:59Cornwall has more than its fair share of folktales. Perhaps the most famous is found near Land’s End, where Rick recounts the tale of the Mermaid of Zennor.
28:58Rick meets Springwatch presenter and biologist Gillian Burke who takes Rick on a walk through a rare habitat called an Atlantic Temperate Rainforest, on the banks of the Helford River.
28:59Rick Stein travels to St Ives to tell us about one of Britain’s little-known artists, Alfred Wallis. In the shadow of Bodmin Moor Rick visits a very rare collection of Medieval stained-glass windows in the church of St Neot.
28:59Rick Stein launches this series about his home county of Cornwall with a trip back in time to his early days running a nightclub in Padstow.
Season 1
29:01
29:01 Expired
As Rick’s Cornish odyssey comes to an end he takes a city break in Truro, where he discovers an unusual ghost story and tours the magnificent cathedral. Deep in the Cornish countryside is a family passionate about offal who prepare Rick a delicious meal of pickled ox tongue and beef heart tacos. 28:59 Expired
West Penwith is as far west as it possible to go on mainland Britain. Here Rick explores its rich and diverse history, from Lamorna Cove to the UNESCO protected tin and copper mining area of Botallack, where Rick talks with a mining explorer. And from the safety of his kitchen, Rick tells us how, as a young lad on the Liza... 28:56 Expired
Rick is at Tintagel, Cornwall’s most mythical place, where he discovers this was an important trading port with Europe and the birthplace of perhaps Britain’s greatest legend, the tale of King Arthur. At Camborne, once the richest mining area in the world, Rick explores how the Methodist religious movement was so important... 29:03 Expired
Rick is on the beautiful Roseland Peninsula. At one of the county's oldest butchers, Rick looks into the ancient practice and benefits of ageing meat, before demonstrating how to properly cook a steak and make the perfect Bearnaise sauce. And in the attractive harbourside village of Mousehole, Rick meets a potter who finds... 28:15 Expired
Rick explores the beating heart of the post-war British modern art movement in the seaside town of St Ives, the home for leading artists such as Barbara Hepworth and Terry Frost. At the Lizard Peninsula, known locally as the graveyard of all shipping, Rick heads out to sea to fish for a delicious seasonal visitor - the red...