The Food programme

What to Eat to Save the Planet?

As scientific evidence grows showing an urgent need for us to reduce the environmental impact of food we eat, Sheila...

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BrewDog: Punks grown up?

BrewDog to a lot of people are almost synonymous with 'craft beer.' They are everywhere from supermarkets to off...

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Inside the World Food Programme

Dan Saladino tells the inside story of Nobel Peace Prize winners the World Food Programme. Produced and presented by...

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• 17 days

Loving the Leftovers

Christmas is over, everyone’s eaten too much – and yet, there’s still a mountain of leftover...

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• 25 days

Christmas Cooking: The 2020 Edit

Christmas will be different this year, but it doesn't mean it should be any less delicious. Sheila Dillon is joined...

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The Secret Life of Chocolate. Part 2: The future.

In the second of a two part chocolate special Sheila Dillon is joined by baker and chocolatier Selasi Gbormittah and...

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Cookbooks of 2020

Whether it's a recipe book full of mouthwatering meals, a deep dive into the science of what we eat or a collection...

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What’s the deal with "chlorinated chicken"?

What do we mean by chlorinated chicken? Why is it such a bad thing? What exactly are the UK standards that...

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Raymond Blanc: The Lost Orchard

Raymond Blanc has spent decades growing an orchard at Le Manoir. An orchard Raymond has planted with 2500 rare trees...

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University Challenge: How students and universities are managing meals during the pandemic

Universities have become big business in the UK in recent decades - educating around 2.3 million students, with an...

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Nadiya Hussain: A Life Through Food

It's been five years since Nadiya Hussain left the Great British Bake Off tent victorious, inspiring and instilling...

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

Food can tell us a lot about our politicians, at least that seems to be what we think. We love to see them eat and we...

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

This year’s autumn run of Jewish holy days has been like no other; but even with coronavirus-related...

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English Pastoral: James Rebanks on the future of food.

Dan Saladino visits shepherd and writer James Rebanks whose farm in Cumbria spans three generations. What does can...

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

Biscuits aren’t just a classic accompaniment to a cuppa: they’re also somehow an edible comforter - very...

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• 4 months

Wheat Revolutions

Dan Saladino tells the story of wheat from the domestication of wild grasses in the Neolithic Revolution through to...

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Kitchen obsessives: Why aim to cook the perfect dish?

March 2020. Supermarket shelves were bare, restaurants and takeaways were closed, schools and workplaces closed....

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The Ice Cream Van: A Celebration.

Dan Saladino and his dad Bobo (a former ice-cream man) talk Mr Whippy, 99s and Screwballs. Together Dan and Bobo (who...

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

In 2019, Romy Gill met Randeep Singh, CEO of NishkamSWAT (Sikh Welfare & Awareness Team). 10 years previous, Randeep...

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Sitopia - a land with food at its centre

Prime Minister Carolyn Steel joins Sheila Dillon for this special edition of The Food Programme from the year 2030....

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• 5 months