Tomorrow sees the launch of new BBC programme ‘The Supersizers Go…’. Two celebrity guinea pigs will go back in gastronomic time to experience the development of British cuisine at first hand. They will sample delicacies ranging from pig snout to hare’s gall bladder, washed down with the tipple of the time.

One half of the time travelling foodie duo is none other than restaurant critic Giles Coren. His dining pal for the series is comedienne Sue Perkins. Together they test fare from twelve periods of history, including Regency, Victorian, and Edwardian eras, as well as dishes from the Second World War and the Seventies.

The show has an educational purpose: to discover which dishes our modern diet could benefit from, and to learn from the mistakes of the past.

But that does not stop the programme from having fun, as it films the duo stifling their gagging reflex and forcing down pig jelly and glands while dressed to the nine in the costume of the age.

Perkins declared the Elizabethan era as the most unappetising, due to its reliance on exotic spices imported from the New World.

As for Coren, viewers can see him lending his professional palate to morcels such as cockerel testicle while sporting a frilly hat.

‘The Supersizers Go…’ starts tomorrow on BBC2 at 9pm.