Fork and Backpack is a documentary series produced by Coyote and J. A. Productions, created in 2007 and broadcast until 2012.
It follows Julie Andrieu on her travels to the heart of culinary cultures from around the world1. In 2011, after five seasons, Julie Andrieu announced that she was suspending the presentation of the show for a year to devote herself to another project on France 52.3.
In 2016, it was rebroadcast on the Number 234 channel, but no new episodes were shot.
Damian Barr interviews the biggest names in fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across Scotland, the UK and the world, before a live audience of literature lovers.
In this show, Osamu Hayashi, a lecturer in modern Japanese language, takes on the role of a high school student. Alongside his celebrity friends who act as fellow classmates, they bring in experts from different fields to give lessons.