
Stefan Gates
Gates presented BBC One's Food Factory. He wrote and presented the BBC Two series E Numbers: An Edible Adventure, Full on Food and the BBC Four series Feasts.
Gates has also written and presented two BBC Four documentaries: Calf's Head and Coffee: The Golden Age of English Food on food history, and Can Eating Insects Save the World? on entomophagy. He appears as a guest on TV and radio programmes including Newsnight, Loose Ends, BBC Breakfast, Sunday Brunch, The Wright Stuff, Iron Chef, Blue Peter, The Alan Titchmarsh Show and This Morning. Gates was a panellist on BBC Radio 4's Kitchen Cabinet and has made two radio documentaries.
In addition to his television and radio work, Gates runs a popular YouTube channel, Gastronaut TV, where he shares science-themed videos focused on food, experiments and unusual culinary topics. He performs numerous live science shows and lectures at festivals, theatres and schools across the UK, including his touring family friendly show Rude Science Live!, described as "the naughtiest, funniest, most revolting science show" combining humour with curriculum-linked science demonstrations.
He is the author of 13 books, including recent titles such as Fartology: The Extraordinary Science Behind the Humble Fart (2018), Catology: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Cats (2021), Rude Science (2024), and Science You Can Eat: Putting What We Eat Under the Microscope (2025), a children's science book that explores food through interactive experiments.
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