About Castle Kitchen

Thomas is an Austrian born Documentary Filmmaker and Culinary Explorer with a passion for collecting and experimenting with ingredients and recipes from the world of ancient Greece. His passion for the culinary world and its history came from his father, a 3^rd generation Executive Chef, who learned his trade in St Moritz, Switzerland.

Exploring the culinary world, Thomas has travelled extensively over the past 30 years, experiencing a wide variety of cultures, especially their food and cooking techniques.

Thomas began his career in the broadcast industry as a freelance cameraman for BBC Sport, ITV, Sky TV and Channel 4. He created the UK's first commercial online TV station for the City of Portsmouth in 2009. In 2011 Thomas produced a mini- documentary series, 'Road to London 2012', for the BBC in the run-up to the Olympic Games 2012. Thomas launched Studio Kerkyra in Corfu, Greece in 2014, livestreaming interactive shows around the island.

Bringing an idea to life always presents a challenge, in this case finding the right location to experiment with our research on ancient Greek cuisine and taking the idea to the next level. The opportunity to do so presented itself in 2020 with the move to the ancient location of Gardiki, Corfu and his Castle.

The idea of Castle Kitchen became a reality in the form of a series of documentaries set to explore the world of ancient Greek cuisine and their way of life, highlighting how important its influence has been and still is in today's Mediterranean diet.

Thomas will be joined on this journey by actor/voice artist Adrian Marvell.

London born Adrian Marvell has most recently been involved with Studio Kerkyra in a wide variety of projects, completing many hours of Livestream broadcasts. Presenting several mini docs , narrating and interviewing and co hosting Live broadcasts & Live Special Events. He also appeared in ‘Last Step’ - a short film for Studio Kerkyra.

In 2021 he completed a 16hr marathon Livestream - sight reading the English translation (by EV Rieu) of Homer’s’ ‘The odyssey’ for Studio Kerkyra.

Previously he acted at Mon Repos (Corfu) playing Richard111 and Moonshine in ‘Bard and the Beatles’.

Before coming to Corfu, he played many theatrical roles in Southern England including Shakespeare’s ‘Shylock’, ‘Polonius’ and ‘Pandarus’ ( Fishbourne Roman Palace )  and many other characters including Estragon - ‘Waiting for Godot’, Peter - ‘The Zoo Story’,  Bunny - ‘Me & My friend’,  Treves - ‘The Elephant Man’ &  Dr. Pepys - ‘Madness of King George’.

He has also performed many public readings of Dickens’s stories at the Birthplace museum of Portsmouth (UK) and performance readings at Portsmouth Museum.