Michael Buerk

Michael Duncan Buerk is a British journalist and newsreader. He presented BBC News from 1973 to 2002 and has been the host of BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze since 1990. He was also the presenter of BBC One's docudrama 999 from 1992 to 2003. From 2017, Buerk also presented the TV programme Royal Recipes which ran for two series.

My Life on a Plate · S1, E14

Michael Buerk

Although Michael Buerk was born in Solihull, it’s in Hereford where he feels his life really began as far as food is concerned. From the unpromising 1950s fare of tinned spaghetti, overcooked cabbage and grey peas cooked by his mother and grandmother, to the delicious wholesome food he found on his girlfriend’s family table, Michael has never looked back. Brian finds plenty of inspiration in Michael’s stories of his youth as well as in the bountiful Herefordshire fields to produce two tantalising dishes which put his guest’s life on a plate.