The Naked Chef The Naked Chef The Naked Chef was a BBC Two television cooking programme starring Jamie Oliver. It originally ran for three series plus three subsequent Christmas specials, and was produced by Optomen Television for the BBC. The show was Oliver's television debut, and was noted for its use of jumpy, close-up camera work, and the presenter's "Mockney" dialect and relaxed style—for example, Oliver would tear up herbs rather than chopping. The programme was credited with inspiring men to cook due to Oliver's "blokey" approach. Each episode took its theme from a social situation or event in Oliver's life, such as
Lovely Joan Lovely Joan Lovely Joan is a traditional English folk song (Roud #592), and the tune to which it is sung. Its melody is most familiar to modern audiences as the counterpoint tune used in British composer Ralph Greaves's arrangement of "Fantasia on "Greensleeves"" from Ralph Vaughan Williams's opera "Sir John in Love"." The words to "Lovely Joan," as printed in "The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs", are as follows: "Sung by C. Jay, Acle, Norfolk (R.V.W. 1908)." The melody for Lovely Joan was used by Emerson, Lake & Powell on the track "Touch and Go" of their eponymous album