The Food Programme

Investigating every aspect of the food we eat

Episodes

Total: 754

A Christmas Feast Special.

2021/12/19

Some of the biggest names in the food world join Dan and Sheila with their favourite Christmas dishe

The Meaning of Cod

2021/12/12

How did cod become such an important fish in so many different and diverse parts of Europe? In sear

Sheila Dillon presents more stories of the winners of the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2021, which ce

The winners of the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2021 are announced at a ceremony at London's Broadcas

Cookbooks of 2021

2021/11/21

What are the books that the presenters of Radio 4's The Food Programme have been relishing this year

Leyla Kazim visits 2021’s Best Shop or Market finalists in the 20th BBC Food and Farming Awards – a

Less but better? With the COP26 climate summit underway Dan Saladino looks at how meat and dairy can

Seed breeders spend whole careers in search of that perfect fruit or vegetable, and some even come u

The hospitality sector has a problem: it just can't get the staff.Businesses from bars to hotels are

Dan Saladino finds out how groups of influential investors are using the trillions of dollars they c

What does it take to bring home the title of Best Food Producer in the Food and Farming Awards 2021?

Oz Clarke, the popular man of wine, has enjoyed success in wine writing and broadcasting for four de

She might be best known as the colourfully clad host of the Great British Bake Off, but Dame Prue Le

Vodka is a spirit with a rich cultural history in a host of European countries including Russia and

Shedding its associations with street crime and violence, Buckfast is now drunk in upmarket cocktail

Leyla Kazim finds out how food companies and restaurants use PR agencies to get us thinking about th

Can you have your cake and eat it? Do you have bigger fish to fry?Are you seduced by food imagery in

Dan Saladino tells the story of one of Britain's oldest and most popular biscuits, the digestive. He

Flour to the People.

2021/8/15

Dan Saladino finds out how farmers, millers and bakers are reclaiming wheat, flour and bread in Sco

“It’s about trying to paint pictures – of different places, different moments in time, throughout Ch