The Food Programme

Investigating every aspect of the food we eat

Episodes

Total: 759

Broken Policies

6d ago

It's 2025, and the same old questions are still being asked about food and health—how do we get peop

Low and No

2025/1/31

What's behind the rise and rise of low alcohol and alcohol free drinks? The sector grew by a quarter

Want to lose weight? How much can you achieve through exercise? Dan Saladino investigates with the h

Emulsifiers are among the most common food additives found in ultra-processed foods (UPFs), a much-d

Food and AI

2025/1/10

How will Artificial Intelligence (AI) transform the food industry? Experts say it's already having

Food Bank Nation

2025/1/3

In the year 2000 there were barely any food banks in the UK but today there are nearly three thousan

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

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