Second season of restaurant critic Jimi Famurewa’s podcast to launch

British-Nigerian writer, broadcaster and restaurant critic, Jimi Famurewa is launching season two of his acclaimed podcast, Where’s Home Really?

Best known for his role as a guest judge on BBC One’s MasterChef and one of the lead judges on Channel 4’s The Great Cookbook Challenge with Jamie Oliver, Jimi has long been fascinated by the relationship between food, culture, and heritage.

Where’s Home Really? which won Silver for Best Interview Podcast at this year’s British Podcast Awards, delves further into Jimi’s deep-rooted passion of exploring the shared experiences that people from different backgrounds growing up in London and what impact that has made in modern society.

In each episode, Jimi asks his guests to reveal a person, phrase, place, and plate that best represents what home means to them.

A range of guests have been lined up for the second series, with TV personality, chef and BBC Two’s Great British Menu host Andi Oliver the first of them. Others will include the likes of Nadiya Hussain, Amir Khan, Adjoa Andoh, Doc Brown, Corinne Bailey Rae and more.

Jimi says: “For Where’s Home Really? to have won Best Interview at the British Podcast Awards feels both enormously gratifying and, also, like the best possible timing as we get ready to invite another set of well-known faces to talk about culture, heritage and fascinating ways we all find that sense of home and belonging.

“These conversations always feel like a series of vivid journeys; into the Bolton boxing clubs that made Amir Khan, onto the Bangladesh rice farm where Nadiya Hussain slept under the stars, and into the heat and the noise of the punk gigs where Andi Oliver found her tribe. I can’t wait for listeners old and new to see the moving, unexpected and outrageously funny places that each guest takes us in series two.”

A Podimo and Listen production, the second season of Where’s Home Really? launches Thursday 12 October.