The Food Programme Podcast
Investigating every aspect of the food we eat
Episodes to download
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Feeding Norfolk
Sun 3 Mar 2024
Delia Smith sends the team to Norfolk to see what's being done to fix food poverty there.
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The power of poems to connect us to food
Sun 25 Feb 2024
Farmer's stories through the eyes of poets – can it make us care how our food is grown?
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A Bitter Taste?
Sun 18 Feb 2024
From cooking and growing to new health research, Leyla Kazim explores the world of bitter.
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Destination Food
Sun 4 Feb 2024
Sheila Dillon explores what it means to travel to eat in a globalised world.
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How has a small island become the nation with the highest rate of obesity?
Sun 28 Jan 2024
Sheila Dilllon explores what we can learn from Nauru, the world's most obese country
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Haggis and Hosting: Celebrating Burns Night
Sun 21 Jan 2024
Sheila Dillon joins chef Julie Lin in Glasgow as she hosts friends for Burns Night 2024.
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Eating for Two?
Sun 14 Jan 2024
Jaega Wise is on a mission to find out what she should really be eating while pregnant.
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A Seaweed Revolution in the UK?
Sun 7 Jan 2024
Could seaweed farming be the answer to some of our biggest issues? Leyla Kazim finds out.
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New Year’s Eve Food Around the World
Sun 31 Dec 2023
Join Leyla Kazim for a tour of New Year’s Eve food traditions around the world.
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Christmas with The Food Programme
Christmas Eve 2023
Chef Thomasina Miers and Sheila Dillon on doing more with less at Christmas.
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Reflections on rum
Sun 17 Dec 2023
Jaega Wise chats to producer Nina Pullman on the making of the rum programme.
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Dark and stormy: A journey through rum
Sun 17 Dec 2023
From its origins on slave plantations to new ways of making it from scratch in the UK.
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Recipes for Long Life
Sun 10 Dec 2023
Could research into centenarians living in Blue Zones help us live longer?
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The food books of 2023
Sun 3 Dec 2023
Sheila Dillon presents The Food Programme’s favourite food books of the year.
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Food Under Siege in Gaza
Sun 26 Nov 2023
Sheila Dillon looks at the war in Gaza through the lens of food.
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Older Men Learning to Cook
Sun 19 Nov 2023
Jimi Famurewa talks to men who are learning or rediscovering cooking later in life.
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Mezcal: A Beginners Guide
Sun 12 Nov 2023
Dan Saladino explores the Mexican spirit mezcal and the diverse world of agave spirits.
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±«Óãtv Food and Farming Awards 2023: Second Course
Sun 5 Nov 2023
Sheila Dillon presents more winners from the ±«Óãtv Food and Farming Awards 2023.
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±«Óãtv Food and Farming Awards 2023: First Course
Fri 3 Nov 2023
The winners of the ±«Óãtv Food and Farming Awards 2023 are announced.
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Prescribing Fruit and Veg – A New Model for the NHS?
Sun 22 Oct 2023
How healthcare is being brought out of GP surgeries and into communities in south London.
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Eating Wild Part 2: Inside the Gut Microbiome
Sun 15 Oct 2023
Dan Saladino finds out what happened to people who embarked on a wild food adventure.
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Local food – is it working?
Sun 1 Oct 2023
To what extent is food localism working, and how is that helping smaller producers?
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±«Óãtv Food and Farming Awards: street food finalists
Sun 17 Sep 2023
Street food, take-aways and small eateries, the finalists in ±«Óãtv Food & Farming Awards.
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The Food Innovators: Radical Thinkers, Big Ideas.
Sun 10 Sep 2023
Dan Saladino meets the finalists for this year's Food Innovation Award.
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A Food Museum – can it make us care about food?
Sun 27 Aug 2023
How can the UK's new food museum tell the story of food, past, present and future?
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