Sandy Tang is a chef and entrepreneur whosejourney has been anything but a straight line. Born and raised in Macau, she moved to the UK as a teenager and began cooking at fifteen to recreate the flavours of her childhood. She studied electronic engineering at the University of Warwick before, at just 24, signing up for MasterChef 2020 — cooking her wayto the final and finishing as runner-up in one of the show's most memorable series.

Rather than the restaurant route, Sandy chosethe supermarket shelf. With co-founder David Solomon she launched Love Sum, a brand of fresh, chilled, ready-to-cook "world dumplings" — from Chinese classics to Korean BBQ beef mandu — on a mission to make dumplings asubiquitous in British fridges as filled pasta. Produced sustainably in the UK, Love Sum is now stocked in Sainsbury's, Ocado, Selfridges, Booths and GoPuff.

In early 2025 she pitched on Dragons' Den, winning an investment offer from Peter Jones, and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list the same year. For Sandy, dumplings are about more than food: they represent family, celebration and connection.

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You can find Sam on socials at @SamJonesMCR

Produced by Sally Rutter

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Very few people can say they were in the room when a masterpiece was made. Ken Caillat was behind the desk for all of it. He's best known for producing and engineering the Fleetwood Mac albums Rumours, Tusk, Mirage and Live, capturing Dreams, Go Your Own Way and The Chain while the band's relationships fell apart around him. That work brought an Album of the Year Grammy, and his recordings have sold over 50 million copies.

Now his book Making Rumours, out in the UK since 10 September, lifts the lid on the hedonism and excess of those sessions. In this episode he shares some of those stories with us...

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Georgie Bell is co-founder and CEO of The Heart Cut, the award-winning independent whisky bottler she launched in 2023 with her husband, Fabrizio Leoni. Focused on single casks from small, innovative producers around the world alongside renowned names, The Heart Cut was named Independent Bottler of the Year at the Global Icons of Whisky Awards in both 2024 and 2025, and Producer of the Year at The Whisky Exchange Awards 2026. Georgie's whisky career began behind the bar at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society while studying geography at the University of Edinburgh, where she wrote her dissertation on whisky and regional identity. She went on to become luxury malts ambassador for Diageo's Mortlach, then joined Bacardi in 2016 as global malts ambassador, later serving as head of advocacy for its incubation brands. She is a Keeper of the Quaich, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Distillers, and holds a distillation qualification. She also serves as a trustee of the Wine & Spirit Education Trust.

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You can find Sam on socials at @SamJonesMCR

Produced by Sally Rutter

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