The Food Programme

By BBC Radio 4

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Episodes: 300

EB
 Jan 17, 2019
The host Dan S. is so annoying, smug and injecting himself into everything instead of just reporting, but the other correspondents are great and I enjoy the breadth of subjects.

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 Jul 9, 2018

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Investigating every aspect of the food we eat


Episode Date
Stouts and Porters: How dark beers became cool
Mar 24, 2024
The Plant-Based Diet Boom: How is it changing food culture?
Mar 17, 2024
The herb and spice scam?
Mar 10, 2024
Feeding Norfolk
Mar 04, 2024
The power of poems to connect us to food
Feb 26, 2024
A Bitter Taste?
Feb 18, 2024
Love on a Plate
Feb 11, 2024
Destination Food
Feb 04, 2024
How has a small island become the nation with the highest rate of obesity?
Jan 28, 2024
Haggis and Hosting: Celebrating Burns Night
Jan 21, 2024
Eating for Two?
Jan 14, 2024
A Seaweed Revolution in the UK?
Jan 07, 2024
New Year’s Eve Food Around the World
Dec 31, 2023
Christmas with The Food Programme
Dec 24, 2023
Reflections on rum
Dec 17, 2023
Dark and stormy: A journey through rum
Dec 17, 2023
Recipes for Long Life
Dec 10, 2023
The food books of 2023
Dec 03, 2023
Food Under Siege in Gaza
Nov 26, 2023
Older Men Learning to Cook
Nov 19, 2023
Mezcal: A Beginners Guide
Nov 12, 2023
BBC Food and Farming Awards 2023: Second Course
Nov 05, 2023
BBC Food and Farming Awards 2023: First Course
Nov 03, 2023
Prescribing Fruit and Veg – A New Model for the NHS?
Oct 22, 2023
Eating Wild Part 2: Inside the Gut Microbiome
Oct 15, 2023
Kombucha: A Miracle Drink?
Oct 08, 2023
Local food – is it working?
Oct 01, 2023
Abergavenny at 25
Sep 24, 2023
BBC Food and Farming Awards: street food finalists
Sep 17, 2023
The Food Innovators: Radical Thinkers, Big Ideas.
Sep 11, 2023
Festival Food
Sep 03, 2023
A Food Museum – can it make us care about food?
Aug 27, 2023
Wedding Food
Aug 20, 2023
The Global Food System: Too Big to Fix?
Aug 13, 2023
Medicinal mushrooms – magically good for our health?
Aug 06, 2023
Feeding Your Brain: A Users Guide.
Jul 30, 2023
UPF WTF?
Jul 23, 2023
Smoke, Fire and Flame: Trends v Tradition
Jul 16, 2023
Bread, Baking, War and Ukraine
Jul 10, 2023
The Wild Venison Project
Jul 02, 2023
Agritourism: Italian-inspired hospitality in the UK
Jun 25, 2023
Learning to Eat Part 2 – How the French do it
Jun 18, 2023
Learning to Eat Part 1 – Do Kids Need Special Food?
Jun 11, 2023
Pavlov to Plant Breeding: Food Prizes that Changed the World.
Jun 04, 2023
The Awards Return
May 31, 2023
Tech, TikTok and the Future of Food Writing
May 21, 2023
Eating Wild
May 14, 2023
Coronation 2023 – How is Food Bringing us Together?
May 07, 2023
Conversations in cafes: all hail the greasy spoon
Apr 30, 2023
The Good Friday Food Revolution
Apr 23, 2023
Weight-loss drugs
Apr 16, 2023
Secret Supply Lines – Fruit & Veg Under the Radar
Apr 09, 2023
A Pudding Celebration
Apr 02, 2023
Glasgow: Seeking Asylum and Finding Refuge in Food
Mar 26, 2023
Hospital Food: Agents of Change?
Mar 19, 2023
A Food Rethink: Lessons from a Food Shortage
Mar 12, 2023
Halloumi and hellim: The story of an island and its cheese
Mar 05, 2023
One Armed Chef: The Food Adventures of Giles Duley.
Feb 26, 2023
Delia Country: How Delia Smith changed food in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Feb 19, 2023
Low Energy Cookers: Fad or For Life?
Feb 12, 2023
Pierre Koffmann: A Life Through Food
Feb 06, 2023
Brexit and Food: How is it working out?
Jan 29, 2023
The Wild West of Whisky: From Cask Investments to Dram Scams
Jan 22, 2023
Fixing Dan
Jan 15, 2023
Shellfish: A Very British Image Crisis
Jan 08, 2023
Hangovers: a guide to the morning after
Jan 01, 2023
Food, Philosophy & Football: Christmas with Delia Smith
Dec 25, 2022
The Forgotten Foods of Christmas
Dec 18, 2022
The Food Books of 2022
Dec 11, 2022
Nutrition's Dark Matter: The New Science of Eating
Dec 05, 2022
Fred Sirieix: A Life Through Food
Nov 27, 2022
BBC Food and Farming Awards 2022: Second Course
Nov 20, 2022
BBC Food and Farming Awards 2022: First Course
Nov 13, 2022
Avoiding the Avocado?
Nov 06, 2022
Best Food Producer: Meet the Finalists of 2022
Oct 30, 2022
Wine in a Changing Climate
Oct 23, 2022
The Food Innovators
Oct 16, 2022
So You Want to Be a Bartender?
Oct 09, 2022
Cost of Living Crisis: Food Donations
Oct 02, 2022
Hospital food - a turning point?
Sep 25, 2022
Cooperation: the solution to a food crisis?
Sep 18, 2022
The Hairy Bikers: Full Throttle Food
Sep 11, 2022
A Very British Restaurant Revolution – Jeremy Lee and the joy of ingredients that sing
Sep 04, 2022
Cost of Living Crisis: The Food Factor
Aug 30, 2022
Feeding the Circus
Aug 21, 2022
Fried Chicken: a story of race and identity
Aug 14, 2022
Reformulation – a fix for the obesity crisis?
Aug 07, 2022
Protein: power in powder?
Jul 31, 2022
Sandor Katz: Fermentation Journeys
Jul 24, 2022
Michael Caines: A Life Through Food
Jul 17, 2022
Mindful Food and the Art of Attention
Jul 10, 2022
Bread: Why should we care more about it?
Jul 03, 2022
The Food Strategy: Is There One?
Jun 27, 2022
Birmingham’s Food System Revolution
Jun 19, 2022
Can we bring food diversity back to the table?
Jun 12, 2022
The BBC Food and Farming Awards return for 2022
Jun 05, 2022
Falafel: A recipe for connection
May 29, 2022
Consider the Axe: Food, farming and the wonders of Stonehenge.
May 22, 2022
Madhur Jaffrey: A Legacy
May 15, 2022
Staffordshire Oatcakes – a Potteries tradition going strong
May 08, 2022
SPAM: food + war + memory in a can
May 01, 2022
Jack Monroe: A Life Through Food
Apr 24, 2022
An Easter Special
Apr 19, 2022
Ukraine: The Food Dimension Part 2
Apr 10, 2022
Beans Part 2: How Spain Does Beans
Apr 03, 2022
Beans Part 1: Are Legumes the Answer?
Mar 27, 2022
The True Cost of Food
Mar 21, 2022
Animal-free dairy: Could this be the future of milk?
Mar 13, 2022
Ukraine: War in the breadbasket of the world
Mar 06, 2022
Scotland, a Good Food Nation?
Feb 27, 2022
Fresh Grounds: The Search for the World's Rarest Coffee
Feb 20, 2022
Ainsley Harriott: A Life Through Food
Feb 13, 2022
Eco-labelling for food - what difference could it make?
Feb 06, 2022
Wassail! Wassail! A celebration of cider, orchards and song
Jan 30, 2022
Angela Hartnett: A Life Through Food
Jan 23, 2022
Keto: Diet fad or food fix?
Jan 16, 2022
Gabriella D'Cruz: Global Youth Champion
Jan 09, 2022
#FoodTok: Mastering the Art of Cooking in Three Minutes
Jan 02, 2022
The Rise of Ultra-Fast Grocery Delivery
Dec 26, 2021
A Christmas Feast Special.
Dec 19, 2021
The Meaning of Cod
Dec 12, 2021
The BBC Food and Farming Awards 2021 - Second Course
Dec 05, 2021
The BBC Food and Farming Awards 2021 - First Course
Nov 30, 2021
Cookbooks of 2021
Nov 21, 2021
Best Shop or Market of the Year: Meet the Finalists
Nov 14, 2021
COP26: The Case for Cattle and Pigs.
Nov 07, 2021
Veg Invention: The stories of new kinds of fruit and vegetables
Oct 31, 2021
A Personnel Problem: What's the solution to hospitality's staffing crisis?
Oct 24, 2021
Follow the Money: Investor power and the Future of Food
Oct 17, 2021
Best Food Producer of the Year: Meet the Finalists
Oct 10, 2021
Oz Clarke: A Life Through Wine
Oct 03, 2021
Prue Leith: A Life Through Food
Sep 26, 2021
High Spirits: A story of vodka
Sep 19, 2021
Buckfast: the Transformation of Scotland’s Most Controversial Drink
Sep 12, 2021
Stirring Up Stories: The Business of Food PR
Sep 05, 2021
Tastefully Worded: Exploring food in language
Aug 29, 2021
The Story of the Digestive: From grain to biscuit.
Aug 22, 2021
Flour to the People.
Aug 15, 2021
Andrew Wong: A Life Through Food
Aug 08, 2021
Catering in Care Homes
Aug 01, 2021
The Great Food Reset?
Jul 25, 2021
Plate of the Nation: Second Serving
Jul 18, 2021
Drinking Culture: The women calling out sexism in the alcohol industry
Jul 11, 2021
Unpacking the Great British Picnic
Jul 04, 2021
Cyrus Todiwala: A Life Through Food
Jun 28, 2021
The Medical Field: Why student doctors are getting out on farms
Jun 20, 2021
Eat Your Art Out: How Art Makes Us Eat
Jun 13, 2021
Tom Kerridge: A Life Through Food
Jun 06, 2021
India's Covid Crisis: The Food Story
May 30, 2021
Socially Distanced Dining: Indoor restaurants reopen again
May 23, 2021
Pure umami: should we learn to love MSG?
May 16, 2021
1971: A year that changed food forever?
May 09, 2021
The Joy of Heat
May 03, 2021
A Nominations Celebration
Apr 25, 2021
Lab-grown meat: How long before it's on a menu near you?
Apr 19, 2021
The Urban Growing Revolution
Apr 11, 2021
The Magic of Mussels (And Their Troubled Trade)
Apr 04, 2021
Food, James Bond’s food
Mar 28, 2021
Food in Lockdown: One Year On
Mar 21, 2021
The Barrel Effect: Why Oak casks have stood the test of time.
Mar 14, 2021
Genome editing and the future of food
Mar 07, 2021
School Food: Re-imagined
Feb 28, 2021
Everything Stops For Tea.
Feb 21, 2021
Charles Campion: A Life Through Food.
Feb 14, 2021
Cooking Blind
Feb 07, 2021
Flavours of Home: The refugees forging new lives through food
Jan 31, 2021
All at Sea? Fishing after Brexit
Jan 24, 2021
What to Eat to Save the Planet?
Jan 17, 2021
BrewDog: Punks grown up?
Jan 10, 2021
Inside the World Food Programme
Jan 04, 2021
Loving the Leftovers
Dec 27, 2020
Christmas Cooking: The 2020 Edit
Dec 20, 2020
The Secret Life of Chocolate. Part 2: The future.
Dec 13, 2020
The Secret Life of Chocolate. Part 1: Origins
Dec 06, 2020
Cookbooks of 2020
Nov 29, 2020
What’s the deal with "chlorinated chicken"?
Nov 22, 2020
Raymond Blanc: The Lost Orchard
Nov 15, 2020
University Challenge: How students and universities are managing meals during the pandemic
Nov 08, 2020
Nadiya Hussain: A Life Through Food
Nov 01, 2020
Eat Your Way to Power: Food and Politics on the Campaign Trail
Oct 25, 2020
Faith, Fasts and Feasts: The role of food in Jewish celebration
Oct 18, 2020
English Pastoral: James Rebanks on the future of food.
Oct 11, 2020
Taking the Biscuit: How a long-life ration became the quintessential British comfort food
Oct 04, 2020
Wheat Revolutions
Sep 27, 2020
Kitchen obsessives: Why aim to cook the perfect dish?
Sep 20, 2020
The Ice Cream Van: A Celebration.
Sep 13, 2020
A different kind of S.W.A.T team: Food in Lockdown
Sep 07, 2020
Sitopia - a land with food at its centre
Aug 30, 2020
Plate of the Nation
Aug 23, 2020
Food and the legacy of slavery
Aug 16, 2020
How Consumers Saved Our Cheese
Aug 09, 2020
Return of the Restaurant?
Aug 02, 2020
Julian Metcalfe: A Life Through Food
Jul 26, 2020
Food and Mood: how eating affects your mental health
Jul 19, 2020
Child Food Poverty: What next after the Government's U-turn on Free School Meals?
Jul 12, 2020
Is it harder to make it in the food industry if you’re black?
Jul 05, 2020
Rethink: The Food Dimension.
Jun 28, 2020
Why The Corner Shop Has Come Into Its Own
Jun 21, 2020
Seed Stories from the Lockdown
Jun 14, 2020
How food on film is the secret ingredient to storytelling
Jun 07, 2020
Why Eat Wild Meat?
May 31, 2020
Last Orders: Does coronavirus spell boom or bust for Britain’s drinks sector?
May 24, 2020
Joe Wicks: A Life Through Food, through lockdown
May 17, 2020
The Kitchen Front: How wartime food strategies influenced our eating ethos
May 10, 2020
Sheffield: A story of a city through its food
May 03, 2020
Bonus Podcast: More from Sheffield's Pete McKee and Richard Hawley
May 03, 2020
Covid-19: The Food Waste Dimension.
Apr 26, 2020
Love In The Time Of Corona: Stories of community support through food
Apr 19, 2020
Takeaway transformed: Inside the food delivery revolution
Apr 12, 2020
05/04/2020
Apr 05, 2020
Eating After Cancer: Can rebuilding relationships with food help cancer patients with their recovery?
Mar 29, 2020
Coronavirus and Food: Your Questions Answered
Mar 22, 2020
Covid-19: The Food Dimension.
Mar 15, 2020
Is the Pasty Really Cornish?
Mar 08, 2020
Lights, Camera, Reaction: Life after Great British Bake Off with David Atherton
Mar 01, 2020
A Tale of Two Fish: Salmon, the wild and farmed
Feb 23, 2020
What Is Making My Child Fat? Part 2: The Debate and Your Questions.
Feb 16, 2020
What Is Making My Child Fat? Part 1: Finding Solutions to the UK’s Child Obesity Issue
Feb 09, 2020
Mary Berry: A Life Through Food
Feb 02, 2020
The Physicist In the Kitchen
Jan 26, 2020
Yes We Can: What do the tins we eat say about the UK?
Jan 19, 2020
Pints of progress: The brewers changing attitudes to learning disabilities
Jan 12, 2020
Could eating microalgae be the next big thing?
Jan 05, 2020
Is The Dinner Party Dead?
Dec 29, 2019
Michel Roux Jr: A Life Through Food
Dec 22, 2019
The Sugar Plum Shift: Exploring the ballet world’s changing approach to food, nutrition and body image
Dec 15, 2019
Cookbooks of 2019
Dec 08, 2019
Eating Animals Part 2: A Meat Q&A.
Dec 01, 2019
Eating Animals Part 1: The Future of Meat
Nov 24, 2019
The Food Programme at 40: Looking Forward (Part II)
Nov 17, 2019
The Food Programme at 40: Looking Back (Part I)
Nov 10, 2019
Smoke and Celebration: Exploring Bonfire Night food traditions
Nov 03, 2019
Brexit: The Tomato's Story. What can one food tell us about the future?
Oct 27, 2019
Could a food project from India solve the UK’s holiday hunger problem?
Oct 20, 2019
Joe Wicks: A Life Through Food
Oct 13, 2019
The Return of Zing: How to Get Sour Back into Your Life.
Oct 06, 2019
Food Additives, Part 2: The Debate
Sep 29, 2019
Food Additives, Part 1: Sherbet and other E number experiments
Sep 22, 2019
Island to Island: The journey of Mauritian cuisine
Sep 15, 2019
Ice Cream Nation
Sep 08, 2019
Taste the Music and Dance
Sep 01, 2019
Jamie Oliver: A Life Through Food Part II
Aug 25, 2019
Jamie Oliver: A Life Through Food Part I
Aug 18, 2019
Why did the chicken cross the road? How food became more than a comedy punchline
Aug 11, 2019
The Search for Esiah's Seeds
Aug 04, 2019
The BarbeQ'n'A
Jul 28, 2019
Good Enough for Granny: What's so special about the food our grandmothers cook?
Jul 21, 2019
Is There A Perfect Diet Just For You? The Future of Personalised Nutrition
Jul 14, 2019
Playing with Food: The world of video game gastronomy
Jul 07, 2019
Can Anyone Learn To Cook? - A Life Through Food with Samin Nosrat
Jun 30, 2019
Baking in the Nordics: The Bread Adventures of Chef Magnus Nilsson
Jun 23, 2019
The BBC Food & Farming Awards 2019: Second Course
Jun 16, 2019
The Food & Farming Awards 2019: First Course
Jun 16, 2019
Ten Good Things
Jun 10, 2019
Faith, Fasting and Feasting – A Ramadan Special
Jun 02, 2019
An Education: Life lessons through food
May 26, 2019
Stranded! How to eat on a desert island.
May 19, 2019
What makes an excellent food producer?
May 12, 2019
Feeding the High Street: Are food shops the answer?
May 05, 2019
How reassuring are food assurance labels?
Apr 28, 2019
Top Banana: The Future of the World's Most Popular Fruit
Apr 21, 2019
How to Start a Food Revolution: The Food Adventures of Claus Meyer
Apr 15, 2019
Tipping Point: Time to Rethink the Service Charge?
Apr 08, 2019
Life of Pie
Mar 31, 2019
Would you let a robot cook you dinner?
Mar 24, 2019
Delicious and Endangered: The Story of Bluefin Tuna
Mar 17, 2019
A different kind of S.W.A.T team
Mar 10, 2019
Why is CBD on everyone's lips?
Mar 04, 2019
The Secret Life of Spaghetti
Feb 25, 2019
Should I boycott palm oil?
Feb 17, 2019
Curry house crisis... where are the women?
Feb 10, 2019
Who are the new generation shaking up the food system?
Feb 03, 2019
What does a no-deal Brexit mean for our food?
Jan 27, 2019
The one where we talk about deep fried Mars Bars
Jan 20, 2019
Feeding the Falklands
Jan 13, 2019
Dog's Dinner
Jan 07, 2019
Weak, small and free: How no and low alcohol is finding power without strength
Dec 30, 2018
Nigella Lawson: A Life Through Food
Dec 25, 2018
The Changing World of Chocolate
Dec 16, 2018
Sweet Chestnuts
Dec 09, 2018
Cookbooks of 2018
Dec 02, 2018
The Food and Medicine Debate
Nov 25, 2018
The Big Carb Debate
Nov 18, 2018
Cambodia's Forgotten Food
Nov 12, 2018
How Instagram changed food
Nov 06, 2018
May Contain Nuts
Oct 28, 2018
A Vintage Year for Homegrown Wine
Oct 21, 2018
The C Word
Oct 14, 2018
How to Feed a Fresher
Oct 07, 2018
The Meat-Free Meat Movement
Oct 01, 2018
Stories for a harvest moon
Sep 25, 2018
Rowley Leigh: A Life Through Food
Sep 16, 2018
The carnivore's guide to meat and fire
Sep 11, 2018
Label This!
Sep 02, 2018
Seeds: a 400-million-year-old food story
Aug 26, 2018
There's More to Mangoes
Aug 19, 2018
Shetland - A Food Homecoming
Aug 12, 2018
Keep It Sticky: The Extraordinary Story of Chef Marcus Samuelsson.
Aug 05, 2018
Music and Food: Sounds Delicious!
Jul 29, 2018
Richard Corrigan: A Life Through Food
Jul 22, 2018