The Food Programme Podcast
Investigating every aspect of the food we eat
Episodes to download
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Catering in Care Homes
Sun 1 Aug 2021
Sheila Dillon explores the challenges around cooking up good quality food in care homes.
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The Great Food Reset?
Sun 25 Jul 2021
Dan Saladino finds out why a United Nations food summit has become so controversial.
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Plate of the Nation: Second Serving
Sun 18 Jul 2021
Can the new National Food Strategy successfully transform the UK food system?
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Drinking Culture: The women calling out sexism in the alcohol industry
Sun 11 Jul 2021
Jaega Wise speaks to those hoping to change how women are treated in the drinks world
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Unpacking the Great British Picnic
Sun 4 Jul 2021
Jaega Wise finds out how and why the picnic has become such an institution.
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Cyrus Todiwala: A Life Through Food
Sun 27 Jun 2021
From Mumbai childhood to pioneering Indian chef in London: Mr Todiwala's Life Through Food
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The Medical Field: Why student doctors are getting out on farms
Sun 20 Jun 2021
Could teaching medics about food production help improve the nation's health?
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Eat Your Art Out: How Art Makes Us Eat
Sun 13 Jun 2021
Jaega Wise discovers how art makes us eat; from cookbooks to curated menus and campaigns.
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Tom Kerridge: A Life Through Food
Sun 6 Jun 2021
Tom Kerridge shares his remarkable life in food, pubs and kitchens with Sheila Dillon.
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India's Covid Crisis: The Food Story
Sun 30 May 2021
Dan Saladino looks at Covid's impact on food in India and the efforts to feed communities.
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Socially Distanced Dining: Indoor restaurants reopen again
Sun 23 May 2021
Leyla Kazim heads to Padstow to discover how restaurants are adapting to new Covid rules.
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Pure umami: should we learn to love MSG?
Sun 16 May 2021
Leyla Kazim investigates the history, science and culture around MSG
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1971: A year that changed food forever?
Sun 9 May 2021
Dan Saladino asks if the year 1971 was a turning point for how the world eats?
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A Nominations Celebration
Sun 25 Apr 2021
Sheila Dillon and Angela Hartnett open nominations for the 2021 BBC Food & Farming Awards.
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Lab-grown meat: How long before it's on a menu near you?
Sun 18 Apr 2021
Sheila Dillon looks at what the future holds for lab-grown or cultivated meat.
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The Urban Growing Revolution
Sun 11 Apr 2021
From window-sills to rooftops, Leyla Kazim explores stories of food being grown in cities
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The Magic of Mussels (And Their Troubled Trade)
Sun 4 Apr 2021
Dan Saladino finds out how Brexit could wreck plans to make the mussel a mainstream food.
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Food in Lockdown: One Year On
Sun 21 Mar 2021
A year on, Sheila Dillon catches up with those who have been keeping the nation fed.
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The Barrel Effect: Why Oak casks have stood the test of time.
Sun 14 Mar 2021
Jaega Wise hears how oak barrels continue to thrive in the drinks industry.
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Genome editing and the future of food
Sun 7 Mar 2021
Dan Saladino looks at the future role of genome editing technology on food and farming.
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School Food: Re-imagined
Sun 28 Feb 2021
Sheila Dillon asks school food visionaries how the system might be improved in future.
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Everything Stops For Tea.
Sun 21 Feb 2021
Jaega Wise explores the ceremony and ritual of drinking tea.
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Charles Campion: A Life Through Food.
Sun 14 Feb 2021
Why was the late Charles Campion so driven to tell food stories? Dan Saladino finds out.
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Cooking Blind
Sun 7 Feb 2021
Sheila Dillon meets the blind and partially sighted cooks inspiring others.
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Flavours of Home: The refugees forging new lives through food
Sun 31 Jan 2021
Sheila Dillon meets asylum seekers and refugees building new lives in the UK through food.
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All at Sea? Fishing after Brexit
Sun 24 Jan 2021
Dan Saladino finds out what the Brexit deal means for the UK's fishing industry.
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What to Eat to Save the Planet?
Sun 17 Jan 2021
Sheila Dillon and guests break down the latest on low carbon food production.
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