The Food Programme Podcast
Investigating every aspect of the food we eat
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Keeping It Local: A Suffolk Story
Fri 24 Oct 2025
Sheila Dillon visits Aldeburgh - a town where people are vocal about food that's local.
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Feeding Britain: Can Our Best Food Producers Deliver?
Fri 17 Oct 2025
Sheila Dillon meets the 蜜芽传媒 Food and Farming Awards 2025 Best Food Producer finalists.
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The Food Innovators: 2025
Fri 10 Oct 2025
Dan Saladino looks at projects helping to rethink chocolate, seafood and food forests.
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In Search of Mustard in Norwich
Fri 3 Oct 2025
Five years after the Colman's factory left, is Norwich forgetting its mustard history?
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Wales's Secret Ingredient: Lessons from Cymru on the Future of Food
Fri 26 Sep 2025
Wales鈥檚 Secret Ingredient: Lessons from Cymru on the Future of Food.
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The Rise of Matcha
Fri 19 Sep 2025
What next for the powdered green tea that's become a global health trend phenomenon?
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Follow the Food: The Rise of Food Tourism
Fri 12 Sep 2025
Sheila Dillon investigates the growing number of food tours and trails.
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Manx Made
Fri 5 Sep 2025
Jaega Wise sets off to the Isle of Man to discover the food being produced there.
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Cooking From Landscape: Rethinking Scottish Food
Fri 29 Aug 2025
Historian Polly Russell and chef Pam Brunton explore Scotland's modern food landscapes.
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Butter Is Back
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Butter superfan Felicity Cloake discovers her favourite ingredient is having a moment
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The Crayfish Question
Fri 15 Aug 2025
Could eating invasive signal crayfish help reduce populations in UK waters?
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Food and the Elements
Fri 1 Aug 2025
At the Oxford Food Symposium, Dan Saladino explores stories of food and 'the elements'.
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Big Food, Big Power
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Sheila Dillon investigates claims the food industry wields too much influence.
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The New Good Life
Fri 18 Jul 2025
Leyla Kazim is uprooting her life to Portugal to grow her own food, but will it work?
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The Periodic Table of Food
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Dan Saladino explores new science that's revealing the complexity hidden within our food.
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Potatoes with Poppy O'Toole
Fri 4 Jul 2025
Chef and queen of potatoes Poppy O'Toole explores the world of her favourite ingredient.
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English Olive Oil
Fri 27 Jun 2025
Leyla Kazim investigates the rise of the olive grove on English farms.
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A Food Revolution in Eight (More) Ideas
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Radical future food ideas ranging from edible chicken feathers to fungi powered crops.
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Professor Michael Crawford: A Life through Food
Fri 13 Jun 2025
Sheila Dillon meets Prof Michael Crawford, whose life鈥檚 work links seafood to brain health
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The 蜜芽传媒 Food & Farming Awards 2025 Launch
Fri 6 Jun 2025
Jaega Wise launches this year's 蜜芽传媒 Food & Farming Awards with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
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Sourfaux
Fri 30 May 2025
Should the ingredients of sourdough be set out in law? Leyla Kazim investigates.
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Coffee Crisis: Why are Prices Breaking Records?
Fri 23 May 2025
Dan Saladino hears from coffee industry insiders about the current spike in global prices.
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From York to Dubai: The Rise of Chocolate
Fri 16 May 2025
Leyla Kazim visits York to discover how the Quakers pioneered the first chocolate bars.
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School Dinners - Past, Present and Future
Fri 9 May 2025
Sheila Dillon investigates how school food has evolved and how it inspires what we eat now
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Feeding the Nation
Fri 2 May 2025
Sheila Dillon explores the efforts to enhance catering and supply chains in public spaces.
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The World's Historic Restaurants
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Restaurants come and go. But a few go on and on. Dan Saladino explores their secrets.
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Is our cheese heritage ancient history?
Fri 18 Apr 2025
Sheila examines the heritage and health benefits of cheesemaking today.
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Darina Allen: A Life Through Food
Fri 11 Apr 2025
Dan Saladino finds out how a farm in west Cork became an influential cookery schools.
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Denmark's Food Revolution?
Fri 4 Apr 2025
Sheila Dillon explores Denmark's moves towards organic and plant-based eating.
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