Polly Russell
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
Polly Elisabeth Russell is a food historian and curator at the British Library with responsibility for research on social science and food. She writes food history column for the Financial Times weekend magazine and in 2015 she was the co-presenter, with Giles Coren, of the BBC television series Back in Time for....
TV Credits
Back in Time for Dinner
Character: Food Expert
One British family embark on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure to discover how a post-war revolution in the food we eat has transformed the way we live. Starting in 1950 and guided by real records of what ordinary families ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner, they will go from meagre rations to ready meals and delivery pizza in just six weeks....
Back in Time for the Weekend
Character: Histoy Expert
For one summer, the Ashby Hawkins family give up their 21st-century technology and travel back in time to discover the radical transformation of our leisure time since 1950....
Further Back in Time for Dinner
Character: Self - Presenter
One British family embark on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure to discover how the food we eat has transformed the way we live....
Back in Time for the Corner Shop
Character:
The Ardern family embark on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure - going back in time to run that great British institution, the corner shop....