The Food Programme Episodes Episode guide
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Festival Food
What does it take to feed a music festival?
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A Food Museum – can it make us care about food?
How can the UK's new food museum tell the story of food, past, present and future?
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Wedding Food
The Food Programme celebrates wedding food and drink.
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The Global Food System: Too Big to Fix?
World leaders met in Rome to fix the food system. Dan Saladino finds out what happened.
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Medicinal mushrooms – magically good for our health?
Are mushrooms like Lion’s Mane, Shiitake, Chaga, and Turkey Tail really medicinal?
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Feeding Your Brain: A Users Guide.
What the latest science is telling us about food, mental health and boosting brain power.
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UPF WTF?
The UK loves ultra-processed food - but they are being linked to illness. So what now?
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Smoke, Fire and Flame: Trends v Tradition
The story of smoke and live fire cooking, from current trends to traditions at risk.
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Bread, Baking, War and Ukraine
Dan Saladino hears from the bakers in Ukraine supplying fresh bread to the front line.
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The Wild Venison Project
The new campaign to make wild venison a mainstay for British meat eaters.
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Agritourism: Italian-inspired hospitality in the UK
On the trail of the pioneers bringing Italian-style agritourism to the UK.
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Learning to Eat Part 2 – How the French do it
What can we learn from the French in teaching children healthy eating habits?
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Learning to Eat Part 1 – Do Kids Need Special Food?
Sheila Dillon explores how food habits are formed at home and nursery in the early years
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Pavlov to Plant Breeding: Food Prizes that Changed the World.
From Nobel winners to great innovators, Dan Saladino explores prize-winning food ideas.
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The Awards Return
Get your entries in now for the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Food and Farming Awards 2023!
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Tech, TikTok and the Future of Food Writing
How lists, maps and apps are transforming restaurant reviewing and food writing.
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Eating Wild
Can you eat like a hunter-gatherer in modern Britain? Dan Saladino meets people who are.
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Coronation 2023 – How is Food Bringing us Together?
Jaega Wise joins a community lunch, and explores the history of coronation eating.
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Conversations in cafes: all hail the greasy spoon
Leyla Kazim explores the magic of the greasy spoon.
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The Good Friday Food Revolution
How the peace process has nourished Northern Ireland's flourishing food culture.
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Weight-loss drugs
Is hacking our biology the solution to an unhealthy food system and bad food culture?
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Secret Supply Lines – Fruit & Veg Under the Radar
Could fruit and veg wholesale markets help build a more secure food system in Britain?
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A Pudding Celebration
Join Sheila in her kitchen with some of the UK's best pudding chefs.
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Glasgow: Seeking Asylum and Finding Refuge in Food
Leyla Kazim explores the central role food plays for forcibly displaced people in Glasgow.
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Hospital Food: Agents of Change?
Sheila Dillon visits a hospital food factory, and will new regulations improve food?
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A Food Rethink: Lessons from a Food Shortage
From energy to seasonality, Dan Saladino explores ideas prompted by supermarket shortages.
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Halloumi and hellim: The story of an island and its cheese
Leyla Kazim speaks to Cypriots about the future of one of the UK's favourite food imports.
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One Armed Chef: The Food Adventures of Giles Duley.
How the photographer injured in a conflict reinvented himself through food and cooking.
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Delia Country: How Delia Smith changed food in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Delia Smith has had a profound influence on East Anglian food. Sheila Dillon investigates.
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Low Energy Cookers: Fad or For Life?
They're having a moment - but can low-energy gadgets do more than simply save us money?