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We catch up with Ahmed who runs the Canteen street food events in Leicester and Market Harborough. Tune in to find out about their deliveries, favourite traders, best food accounts to follow on Instagram and advice for anyone looking to get into street food as a new trader. 

The pandemic has hit the fitness industry hard but local gyms and trainers are adapting to make sure everyone can access help and advice at home. We caught up with Andrew Gange, one of the guys behind Find Your Fitness in Wigston, about their at home training programmes and support. 

In this week's episode we catch up with chef and writer, Shivi Ramoutar. Shivi is now a regular on BBC's Saturday Kitchen and has a brand new book out, The Ice Kitchen, which is full of useful tips on how to maximise meals at home and save time using your freezer. 

We also chat about memories of food in Leicester, surviving the Masterchef challenges and favourite restaurants. 

Music from Cassius Povey.

LoyalFree has grown from Leicestershire beginnings to providing money saving and app based loyalty schemes across the UK. We catch up with them to chat about business, how you can still use the app during the lockdown and some of their favourite places in Leicester. 

You can download the app from www.loyalfree.co.uk/download

Music from Michael Vickers.

Throughout lockdown Frank Turner has been performing gigs via Facebook to fundraise for live music venues. This week he's fundraising for The Shed here in Leicester. We caught up with him to find out more about it and to chat about his new album, which is out on Friday. 

Take your first steps in Chinese cooking with Kwoklyn Wan as we talk lockdown food, cookbooks, mental health and favourite restaurants.