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The Hungry Sailors

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ16994446 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Hungry Sailors is a British lifestyle show produced by Denhams TV. It aired on ITV from 2011 to 2013 and was hosted by the father and son team of Dick and James Strawbridge.

During the series, Dick and James travel round the coastline of South-West Cornwall on their boat, the Morwenna, visiting local food producers, inviting them onto their boat at the end of each show for a competition to see who cooks the best dish.

As well as travelling around Cornwall, the show also has visited the Channel Islands and the Isles of Scilly.

In July 2020, the programme was repeated on short-lived ITV lifestyle channel, Merit.

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The public source identifies “The Hungry Sailors” as television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hungry, Sailors and television.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2013, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hungry, Sailors and television providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16994446. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011, 2013 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Hungry Sailors” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.