The Food Programme

Investigating every aspect of the food we eat

Episodes

Total: 753

Dan Saladino explores the impact a Christmas Carol and other Charles Dickens novels have had on fest

Christmas: The Gift of Food

2024/12/20

Christmas is a time for giving, and for many charities, that often means food. Jaega Wise explores t

Restaurant businesses say it's getting tougher to survive? So what does it take to thrive? Dan Salad

Join Sheila Dillon at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow for the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2024.The aw

Nan the Wiser

2024/11/29

Sheila Dillon explores how our grannies' cooking can shape who we are—and asks what we lose if we le

Once Upon a Mealtime

2024/11/22

Whether it's Turkish Delight, chocolate cake or ginger beer - some of our earliest food memories are

Fishing for Change

2024/11/16

Five seafood species make up 80% of what is consumed in the UK – while at the same time the vast maj

Frankopan on Food

2024/11/15

Peter Frankopan, the author of Silk Roads and Earth Transformed, shares his insights with Dan Saladi

In this exploration of backstage food, Jaega Wise meets actors and musicians to find out how they ea

From the indigenous food of the USA to extraordinary cheeses from Ukraine, the wonders of fermentati

Eating on the Spectrum

2024/10/18

Leyla Kazim explores how neurodivergence can affect the way people eat and experience food.The progr

Jaega Wise travels the country to meet the three finalists in the Drinks Producer category in this y

Dan Saladino looks at 10 potentially planet changing ideas for the future of food, from a farm out a

The Brain Gut Connection

2024/9/27

Why does food do our heads in? This episode is a panel recording from 2024 Abergavenny Food Festival

Nuts about Nuts

2024/9/20

Leyla Kazim traces the journey of this unassuming wonder food, from its health benefits to its origi

The Sourdough Library

2024/9/13

Dan Saladino visits a unique collection of sourdough bread starters from around the world and explor

As MPs return to Westminster after the summer recess, The Food Programme catches up with three of th

Food waste isn't a new story. So why cover it again? Well, in the UK, we are still wasting over 10 m

Taste the World

2024/8/25

Food, identity, myths and reality. In a globalised world can a dish reflect who we are and where we

Addicted to Food

2024/8/16

Sheila Dillon hears why some clinicians and researchers want the condition 'Ultra-Processed Food Add