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The Food Programme Episodes

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    Nadiya Hussain: A Life Through Food

    Nadiya Hussain and Tan France speak to Leyla Kazim about Nadiya's life and career.

  2. Eat Your Way to Power: Food and Politics on the Campaign Trail

    Sheila Dillon investigates the tricky world of eating on the campaign trail.

  3. Faith, Fasts and Feasts: The role of food in Jewish celebration

    Leyla Kazim explores the integral role of food in Judaism’s autumn festivals.

  4. English Pastoral: James Rebanks on the future of food.

    Dan Saladino talks to shepherd James Rebanks about the future of food and farming.

  5. Taking the Biscuit: How a long-life ration became the quintessential British comfort food

    Sheila Dillon considers how the humble biscuit's become a beloved British institution.

  6. Wheat Revolutions

    Dan Saladino on the story of wheat from the Neolithic Revolution to the Green Revolution.

  7. Kitchen obsessives: Why aim to cook the perfect dish?

    Leyla Kazim meets cooking obsessives Felicity Cloake, Bill Buford and Kate Ng.

  8. The Ice Cream Van: A Celebration.

    Dan Saladino and his dad Bobo (a former ice-cream man) talk about scoops, cones and 99s.

  9. A different kind of S.W.A.T team: Food in Lockdown

    Romy Gill and Sheila Dillon hear how volunteers provided free food to all during lockdown.

  10. Sitopia - a land with food at its centre

    This special edition of The Food Programme comes from the year 2030.

  11. Plate of the Nation

    Discussing the future of UK food policy in light of the National Food Strategy

  12. Food and the legacy of slavery

    Jaega Wise and Dan Saladino investigate the hidden story of slavery in our food.

  13. How Consumers Saved Our Cheese

    When UK cheese makers were faced with ruin in lockdown, consumers stepped in to save them.

  14. Return of the Restaurant?

    Sheila Dillon finds out how the restaurant sector is handling the move out of lockdown.

  15. Julian Metcalfe: A Life Through Food

    The man behind Pret A Manger and itsu on the future of high-street food brands.

  16. Food and Mood: how eating affects your mental health

    Food and Mood: how eating affects your mental health

  17. Child Food Poverty: What next after the Government's U-turn on Free School Meals?

    Dame Emma Thompson and teenagers from across the UK call for action on child food poverty.

  18. Is it harder to make it in the food industry if you’re black?

    Jaega Wise meets three people speaking out about inequality in the food world.

  19. Rethink: The Food Dimension.

    As part of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Rethink series Dan Saladino looks at food post-Covid.

  20. Why The Corner Shop Has Come Into Its Own

    Sheila Dillon hears from the corner shops thriving since the Coronavirus lockdown.

  21. Seed Stories from the Lockdown

    Dan Saladino meets some of the people who turned to seeds and grew food in the lockdown.

  22. How food on film is the secret ingredient to storytelling

    Hear how food brings film to life and is inspiring cooks to make meals from the screen.

  23. Why Eat Wild Meat?

    Dan Saladino investigates the global trade in wild meat, from the legal to the illegal.

  24. Last Orders: Does coronavirus spell boom or bust for Britain’s drinks sector?

    Is lockdown an opportunity as well as crisis, for alcoholic drinks vendors and producers?

  25. Joe Wicks: A Life Through Food, through lockdown

    Sheila Dillon and Joe Wicks talk PE, feeding family and his phenomenal rise to fame.

  26. The Kitchen Front: How wartime food strategies influenced our eating ethos

    Following VE Day, Sheila Dillon considers the legacy of WWII food and farming practices

  27. Sheffield: A story of a city through its food

    The independent spirit of the early steel works is inspiring change in modern Sheffield

  28. Covid-19: The Food Waste Dimension.

    Dan Saladino on how the crisis has resulted in vast amounts of food being lost and saved.

  29. Love In The Time Of Corona: Stories of community support through food

    Sheila Dillon and Dan Saladino hear inspirational tales from those helping others via food

  30. Takeaway transformed: Inside the food delivery revolution

    Stepping into a 'dark kitchen', Sheila Dillon sees how takeaway is changing food culture.

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