The Food Programme Podcast
Investigating every aspect of the food we eat
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Cider: Britain's Most Misunderstood Drink?
Sun 20 Oct 2013
Drinks writer Pete Brown explains why bottles of cider should be on the UK's dinner tables
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The Great British Hop
Sun 13 Oct 2013
Can there really be only 60 hop farmers left in the UK? Miles Warde finds out.
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Cook Slow, Cook Fast
Sun 6 Oct 2013
Sheila Dillon meets a new generation of cooks using slow and pressure cookers.
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The School Food Plan
Sun 29 Sep 2013
Sheila Dillon investigates the new School Food Plan and asks if it can make real change.
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A Quiet Food Revolution: The Story of Myrtle and Darina Allen
Sun 22 Sep 2013
How two women, Myrtle and Darina Allen, revolutionised food in Ireland with their cooking.
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The Future of Street Food
Sun 8 Sep 2013
Can street food change the world? Richard Johnson on new ideas unfolding around the world.
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DIY Food
Sun 1 Sep 2013
Tim Hayward meets the people taking ambitious food production into their own hands.
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In Praise of Bacon
Sun 25 Aug 2013
Hardeep Singh Kohli's personal plea to the nation to reflect on a food of wonder: bacon.
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Feeding the Detectives
Sun 18 Aug 2013
Dan Saladino looks at how food has increasingly become a big ingredient in crime fiction.
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A World Stage for Food and Music
Sun 11 Aug 2013
How cooks from 12 countries gathered to share food and music on stage at Womad.
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The Banana - fascinating history, uncertain future
Sun 4 Aug 2013
Sheila Dillon asks why the future of the UK's most popular fruit, the banana, is uncertain
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Skint Foodies
Sun 28 Jul 2013
Sheila Dillon meets the cooks who've specialised in making great food on very low incomes.
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Rethinking Veganism
Sun 21 Jul 2013
How a new generation is rethinking and embracing a meat and dairy free diet.
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Valentine Warner and Magnus Nilsson's Food Exchange, Part 2
Sun 14 Jul 2013
Magnus Nilsson and Valentine Warner fish the lakes of Sweden's Jamtland for wild trout.
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Valentine Warner and Magnus Nilsson's Food Exchange
Sun 7 Jul 2013
Valentine Warner and chef Magnus Nilsson swap food stories. In part one, British wild boar
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Butter, a delicious story of decline and revival
Sun 30 Jun 2013
Sheila Dillon meets a new generation of producers making butter special again.
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Food, game changers and career movers
Sun 23 Jun 2013
A look at the award winners who leaving high flying careers to follow their food passions.
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The chocolate world of Mott Green
Sun 16 Jun 2013
The story of Mott Green, Grenadian cocoa farmer, who tried to change the chocolate world.
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Bereavement and Food
Sun 9 Jun 2013
Sheila Dillon explores how bereavement can change our relationship with food.
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Michael Pollan: Why Cooking Matters
Sun 2 Jun 2013
Sheila Dillon speaks to Michael Pollan on the craft, science and pleasures of cooking.
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Sugar: Pure, White and Deadly?
Sun 26 May 2013
Sheila Dillon finds out why the debate about the role of sugar in our lives is hotting up.
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Food, Cancer and Well-Being
Sun 19 May 2013
Sheila Dillon asks if food and nutrition should have a bigger role in treating cancer.
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A Life Through Wine: Jancis Robinson
Sun 12 May 2013
Sheila Dillon speaks to world-renowned wine writer and critic Jancis Robinson.
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Digital Dishes - life stories through recipes
Sun 5 May 2013
Inside one kitchen, 13 strangers from all over Europe share food and stories.
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Black Pudding v Boudin Noir
Sun 28 Apr 2013
Charles Campion reveals the secrets of great black pudding at the 'world championships'.
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Food on the Road
Sun 21 Apr 2013
Sheila Dillon goes trucking and finds out what it's like to work, live and eat on the road
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Chilli Britannia
Sun 14 Apr 2013
Tim Hayward bites into Britain's growing chilli scene, from growers to expert eaters.
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Madhur Jaffrey, a life through food
Sun 7 Apr 2013
Madhur Jaffrey, Indian cooking legend, returns to India and tells her food life story.
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Fasting, old and new
Sun 31 Mar 2013
Sheila Dillon looks at the practice of fasting from a religious and medical perspective.
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