The Food Programme Podcast
Investigating every aspect of the food we eat
Episodes to download
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Feeding Your Brain: A Users Guide.
Sun 30 Jul 2023
What the latest science is telling us about food, mental health and boosting brain power.
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UPF WTF?
Sun 23 Jul 2023
The UK loves ultra-processed food - but they are being linked to illness. So what now?
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Smoke, Fire and Flame: Trends v Tradition
Sun 16 Jul 2023
The story of smoke and live fire cooking, from current trends to traditions at risk.
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Bread, Baking, War and Ukraine
Sun 9 Jul 2023
Dan Saladino hears from the bakers in Ukraine supplying fresh bread to the front line.
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The Wild Venison Project
Sun 2 Jul 2023
The new campaign to make wild venison a mainstay for British meat eaters.
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Agritourism: Italian-inspired hospitality in the UK
Sun 25 Jun 2023
On the trail of the pioneers bringing Italian-style agritourism to the UK.
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Learning to Eat Part 2 – How the French do it
Sun 18 Jun 2023
What can we learn from the French in teaching children healthy eating habits?
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Learning to Eat Part 1 – Do Kids Need Special Food?
Sun 11 Jun 2023
Sheila Dillon explores how food habits are formed at home and nursery in the early years
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Pavlov to Plant Breeding: Food Prizes that Changed the World.
Sun 4 Jun 2023
From Nobel winners to great innovators, Dan Saladino explores prize-winning food ideas.
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The Awards Return
Sun 28 May 2023
Get your entries in now for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Food and Farming Awards 2023!
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Tech, TikTok and the Future of Food Writing
Sun 21 May 2023
How lists, maps and apps are transforming restaurant reviewing and food writing.
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Eating Wild
Sun 14 May 2023
Can you eat like a hunter-gatherer in modern Britain? Dan Saladino meets people who are.
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Coronation 2023 – How is Food Bringing us Together?
Sun 7 May 2023
Jaega Wise joins a community lunch, and explores the history of coronation eating.
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Conversations in cafes: all hail the greasy spoon
Sun 30 Apr 2023
Leyla Kazim explores the magic of the greasy spoon.
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The Good Friday Food Revolution
Sun 23 Apr 2023
How the peace process has nourished Northern Ireland's flourishing food culture.
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Weight-loss drugs
Sun 16 Apr 2023
Is hacking our biology the solution to an unhealthy food system and bad food culture?
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Secret Supply Lines – Fruit & Veg Under the Radar
Sun 9 Apr 2023
Could fruit and veg wholesale markets help build a more secure food system in Britain?
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A Pudding Celebration
Sun 2 Apr 2023
Join Sheila in her kitchen with some of the UK's best pudding chefs.
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Glasgow: Seeking Asylum and Finding Refuge in Food
Sun 26 Mar 2023
Leyla Kazim explores the central role food plays for forcibly displaced people in Glasgow.
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Hospital Food: Agents of Change?
Sun 19 Mar 2023
Sheila Dillon visits a hospital food factory, and will new regulations improve food?
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A Food Rethink: Lessons from a Food Shortage
Sun 12 Mar 2023
From energy to seasonality, Dan Saladino explores ideas prompted by supermarket shortages.
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Halloumi and hellim: The story of an island and its cheese
Sun 5 Mar 2023
Leyla Kazim speaks to Cypriots about the future of one of the UK's favourite food imports.
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One Armed Chef: The Food Adventures of Giles Duley.
Sun 26 Feb 2023
How the photographer injured in a conflict reinvented himself through food and cooking.
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Delia Country: How Delia Smith changed food in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Sun 19 Feb 2023
Delia Smith has had a profound influence on East Anglian food. Sheila Dillon investigates.
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Low Energy Cookers: Fad or For Life?
Sun 12 Feb 2023
They're having a moment - but can low-energy gadgets do more than simply save us money?
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Pierre Koffmann: A Life Through Food
Sun 5 Feb 2023
Born in Gascony, celebrated for cooking in London, Pierre Koffmann tells his food story.
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Brexit and Food: How is it working out?
Sun 29 Jan 2023
Jaega Wise finds out how Brexit is working out for food producers, three years on.
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The Wild West of Whisky: From Cask Investments to Dram Scams
Sun 22 Jan 2023
Jaega Wise explores the world of cask investment programmes, counterfeits and theft.
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Fixing Dan
Sun 15 Jan 2023
Dan Saladino needs to get in shape, but why do his attempts to change keep failing?
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Shellfish: A Very British Image Crisis
Sun 8 Jan 2023
The climate conscious food entrepreneurs who want us to think again about ugly shellfish.
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