Big Cook, Little Cook

Big Cook, Little Cook
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Genre	Children's
Presented by	Big Cook, Little Cook
Voices of	Stephen Marsh and Dan Wright.
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original languages	English, Polish
Original release
Network	BBC
Release	2004 – Present

Big Cook, Little Cook is a television series for nursery school-aged children broadcast on BBC television channels (particularly the CBeebies digital television channel). The programme is set in the kitchen of a café, with two principal characters, Big Cook Ben and Little Cook Small. Ben is a full-sized adult, but Small is only a few inches tall and flies around on a wooden spoon. Ben and Small are played by Stephen Marsh and Dan Wright respectively.

The format of a programme generally includes a visit to the café by a nursery rhyme or fairy tale character (such as Little Miss Muffet or Humpty Dumpty). Little Cook tells a story about the visitor which paints himself as the real hero, and then they decide to cook the visitor an appropriate meal from Big Cook's recipe book. Little Cook will then fly away on his magic spoon to see where one of the ingredients is made, eg chutney factory. Activities within the kitchen, such as washing up and tidying up, are accompanied by catchy song and dance routines.

Both cooks act in an expansive and overblown style, but the show seems intended to encourage children to take an interest in cooking. Big Cook does most of the actual cooking; Little Cook does some preparation or sets the timer.

Some of the aerial shots of Little Cook flying were filmed over the town of Skipton in North Yorkshire.

See also

• CBeebies

External links

• CBeebies - Big Cook, Little Cook at bbc.co.uk