The Food Programme

Investigating every aspect of the food we eat

Episodes

Total: 756

In Praise of Bacon

2013/8/25

An Ode To The Bacon Butty. Hardeep Singh Kohli's personal plea to the nation to reflect on a food of

Feeding the Detectives

2013/8/18

Dan Saladino looks at how food has increasingly become a big ingredient in crime fiction.

Every year at the WOMAD festival, one tent in a field in Wiltshire becomes the venue for a remarkabl

Sheila Dillon asks why the future of the UK's most popular fruit, the banana, is uncertain.Producer:

Skint Foodies

2013/7/28

Sheila Dillon meets the cooks specialising in great food on small budgets, part of a world of food b

Rethinking Veganism

2013/7/21

The word 'vegan' has for the nearly seventy years of its existence - represented a diet and a way of

In part two of their exchange of food stories Magnus Nilsson invites Valentine Warner to venture int

In a two part special Valentine Warner and Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson swap food stories from their

Sheila Dillon meets a new generation of producers making butter special again.

Sheila Dillon looks at the award winners who are leaving high flying careers to follow their passion

The story of Mott Green, cocoa farmer and chocolate maker, who was changing the industry one bar at

Bereavement and Food

2013/6/9

In the throes of bereavement food can seem unimportant. People lose both their appetite and their se

Sheila Dillon speaks to the writer Michael Pollan on the craft, science and pleasures of cooking. In

Sheila Dillon finds out why the debate about the role of sugar in our lives is hotting up. Recent bo

Sheila Dillon asks if food and nutrition should have a bigger role in treating cancer. Is the medica

Jancis Robinson remembers the specific bottle of wine which ignited her passion for both drinking wi

Inside one kitchen in Bristol, thirteen strangers from all over Europe gathered to share food and st

Charles Campion reports from Normandy in France as he helps judge the world black pudding championsh

Food on the Road

2013/4/21

There's an army of lorries at work right now, transporting food and other goods all over the country

Chilli Britannia

2013/4/18

Tim Hayward bites into Britain's growing chilli scene, from growers to expert eaters and those who l