The Food Programme

Investigating every aspect of the food we eat

Episodes

Total: 753

Stouts and porters, dark malty beers maybe used to have a reputation of being a bit stuffy but there

The last decade has seen an explosion in the trend of plant-based eating, from the growth of plant-b

The herb and spice scam?

2024/3/10

What’s really in your spice rack? In this exclusive investigation by The Food Programme, Jaega Wise

Feeding Norfolk

2024/3/4

A message from Delia Smith takes the Food Programme team to Norfolk to see how a network of social s

Getting people to engage with food and ideas for agricultural change can be really difficult - but t

A Bitter Taste?

2024/2/18

Appetite suppressant, glucose control and inflammation antidote... The scientific research around th

Love on a Plate

2024/2/11

From warming aphrodisiacs in the early modern period, to date-night oysters and champagne or a lovin

Destination Food

2024/2/4

Many of us are travel looking for food experiences and we often want to eat something that is authen

Sheila Dillon investigates what we can learn about food and public health from the extreme case of N

In the dark nights of January, celebrating the work of poet Robert Burns by feasting, toasting and s

Eating for Two?

2024/1/14

Jaega Wise is on a mission to find out what she should really be eating while pregnant - from concep

Seaweed farming could be a huge boon for the UK, restoring biodiversity, cleaning the sea and could

Join Leyla Kazim for a tour of New Year’s Eve food traditions around the world, from eating lentils

Cooking at Christmas is so much more than just the main meal, so this year Sheila Dillon, and chef T

Reflections on rum

2023/12/17

Jaega Wise reflects on her findings and a few surprising moments during the making of this week's ru

A refreshing mojito? Rum punch? Maybe just a simple rum and coke? Many of us might think no further

Recipes for Long Life

2023/12/10

Dan Buettner believes that "when a ritual lasts for hundreds or thousands of years, like prayer befo

The food books of 2023

2023/12/3

Over a coffee in community arts space The Place in Newport, south Wales, The Food Programme presente

Food Under Siege in Gaza

2023/11/26

Sheila Dillon looks at what the current conflict in Gaza has done to food supplies in one of the mos

Older Men Learning to Cook

2023/11/19

Jimi Famurewa talks to men learning or rediscovering cooking later in life, maybe due to a change of