Channel 4's '3 Hungry Boys' at KEM

In 2010, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, from Channel 4's River Cottage,  set a challenge for  three marine biologists, Trevor Thom and Tim - to live by working for food, but never for money.

The second series of the Channel 4 programme followed their  5 weeks in the South West during the summer of 2011. Their home for the journey  was a blue electric milk-float called 'Daisy'

On 10th August 2011, they arrived at KEM and were set to work doing some mine development work at Great Condurrow, the underground section of KEM which is normally closed to the public.

Later they went to nearby Camborne to be shown how to make a real Cornish pasty www.3hungryboys.com ... tasty food for some tired hard rock miners!

 
The programme was originally shown in autumn 2011 and will be re-broadcast in the Spring of 2012.

KEM is becoming a poplar location for film makers. 

In 2010 KEM was also used as a film location for the programme 'Edwardian Farm' that followed the progress of well known historians re-enacting the harsh life in Cornwall at the turn of the 20th century  see 'BBC2  Edwardian Farm'.