Desc: Nigel Slater: Life Is Sweets: Directed by Mark Adderley. With Nigel Slater, Tim Richardson, Nigella Lawson, Christy Fergusson. Nigel Slater traces the origins of Britain's sweets with the help of historians, archivists and psychologists. Not only how they came to be made, but their emotional connections, and what part religion had to play in their conception.