Richard Briers (Tom Good) shares some insight into the casting of The Good Life and how important it was to the success of the series to have the quality of cast they had.

Annie Briers gives Nigel Slater a special recipe for Florida spring vegetable soup, the first meal husband Richard Briers ever cooked for her 50 years ago in this clip from BBC food show A Taste of My Life. Watch more high quality videos on the Food YouTube channel from BBC Worldwide here: http://www.youtube.com/bbcfood