The Food Programme Podcast
Investigating every aspect of the food we eat
Episodes to download
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Love In The Time Of Corona: Stories of community support through food
Sun 19 Apr 2020
Sheila Dillon and Dan Saladino hear inspirational tales from those helping others via food
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Takeaway transformed: Inside the food delivery revolution
Sun 12 Apr 2020
Stepping into a 'dark kitchen', Sheila Dillon sees how takeaway is changing food culture.
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Eating After Cancer: Can rebuilding relationships with food help cancer patients with their recovery?
Sun 29 Mar 2020
How cancer can impact our relationship with food - and why it's so important to rebuild it
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Coronavirus and Food: Your Questions Answered
Sun 22 Mar 2020
As government updates its plans for coronavirus, Dan Saladino answers your food questions.
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Covid-19: The Food Dimension.
Sun 15 Mar 2020
Dan Saladino tracks the origins and impact of coronavirus within the food supply chain.
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Is the Pasty Really Cornish?
Sun 8 Mar 2020
Dr Polly Russell and Sheila Dillon talk to pasty makers from around the world.
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Lights, Camera, Reaction: Life after Great British Bake Off with David Atherton
Sun 1 Mar 2020
The Bake Off Winner talks fame, food and the freak outs of overnight celebrity.
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A Tale of Two Fish: Salmon, the wild and farmed
Sun 23 Feb 2020
Dan Saladino investigates fears of wild Atlantic salmon's possible extinction in 20 years.
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What Is Making My Child Fat? Part 2: The Debate and Your Questions.
Sun 16 Feb 2020
Sheila Dillon puts your questions on child obesity related health to an expert panel.
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What Is Making My Child Fat? Part 1: Finding Solutions to the UK’s Child Obesity Issue
Sun 9 Feb 2020
Sheila Dillon speaks to children and young people seeking solutions to obesity in the UK.
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Mary Berry: A Life Through Food
Sun 2 Feb 2020
Sheila Dillon meets baking guru, TV judge and home-cooking champion, Mary Berry
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The Physicist In the Kitchen
Sun 26 Jan 2020
Can science help us cook better? Dan Saladino asks Heston Blumenthal and Raymond Blanc.
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Yes We Can: What do the tins we eat say about the UK?
Sun 19 Jan 2020
Jack Monroe and Sheila Dillon ask whether tinned foods have an image problem in the UK.
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Pints of progress: The brewers changing attitudes to learning disabilities
Sun 12 Jan 2020
Jaega Wise meets the brewers pouring away preconceptions in the workplace
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Could eating microalgae be the next big thing?
Sun 5 Jan 2020
Sheila Dillon investigates why one day we could all be eating pond scum
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Is The Dinner Party Dead?
Sun 29 Dec 2019
Josceline Dimbleby, Alison Roman & Alexandra Dudley on how to have friends over for food.
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Michel Roux Jr: A Life Through Food
Sun 22 Dec 2019
Sheila Dillon meets the renowned chef to talk food, family and festive inspiration
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The Sugar Plum Shift: Exploring the ballet world’s changing approach to food, nutrition and body image
Sun 15 Dec 2019
Sheila Dillon explores how attitudes towards food and diet have changed in ballet
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Cookbooks of 2019
Sun 8 Dec 2019
Cerys Matthews and Lia Moutselou join Sheila Dillon to review 2019 in cookbooks.
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Eating Animals Part 2: A Meat Q&A.
Sun 1 Dec 2019
Dan Saladino, Sheila Dillon and a range of experts answer your questions on meat eating.
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Eating Animals Part 1: The Future of Meat
Sun 24 Nov 2019
Dan Saladino finds out why tensions are running so high over meat vs plant based diets.
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The Food Programme at 40: Looking Forward (Part II)
Sun 17 Nov 2019
Rick Stein, Yotam Ottolenghi, Grace Dent & Leyla Kazim lead the celebrations. (2/2)
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The Food Programme at 40: Looking Back (Part I)
Sun 10 Nov 2019
Rick Stein, Yotam Ottolenghi, Grace Dent & Leyla Kazim lead the celebrations. (1/2)
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Smoke and Celebration: Exploring Bonfire Night food traditions
Sun 3 Nov 2019
From parched peas to parkin, Sheila Dillon explores our Bonfire Night food favourites
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Brexit: The Tomato's Story. What can one food tell us about the future?
Sun 27 Oct 2019
Dan Saladino picks the tomato to examine the impact of the new Brexit deal on future food.
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Could a food project from India solve the UK’s holiday hunger problem?
Sun 20 Oct 2019
Charity Akshaya Patra feed 1.76 million school children a day. Now it's coming to the UK.
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Joe Wicks: A Life Through Food
Sun 13 Oct 2019
From bootcamps to book deals: Joe Wicks explains his phenomenal success to Sheila Dillon
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The Return of Zing: How to Get Sour Back into Your Life.
Sun 6 Oct 2019
Dan Saladino explores the tastes and temptations of sourness, in our evolution and cooking
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Food Additives, Part 2: The Debate
Sun 29 Sep 2019
Sheila Dillon and an expert panel discuss the role of food additives in our everyday lives
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