The Food Programme Podcast
Investigating every aspect of the food we eat
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The Trouble with Chocolate
Sun 29 Jan 2012
Sheila Dillon explains why supplies of cocoa around the world are facing a tricky future.
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Generation Food
Sun 22 Jan 2012
A profile of the people coming up with radical ideas for food in the UK.
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London 2012, Coke and McDonalds
Sun 15 Jan 2012
Food and the Olympics. Guest presenter John Inverdale looks ahead to London 2012.
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Food Stories: What Happened Next?
Sun 8 Jan 2012
Sheila Dillon reports on the major developments in the big food stories of 2011.
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New Year's Food Quiz
New Year's Day 2012
Tim Hayward and the Food Quiz team juggle more food history, trivia and recipe knowledge.
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The Food Quiz
Christmas Day 2011
Tim Hayward presents a special food quiz edition recorded at the Abergavenny Food Festival
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Gin and Botanicals
Sun 18 Dec 2011
Dan Saladino explores the past, present and future of the most British of drinks, gin.
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The Price of Food
Sun 11 Dec 2011
Dan Saladino exlores how higher food prices are changing what we buy and how we eat.
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Britain's best food markets
Sun 4 Dec 2011
Sheila Dillon discusses this year's winners in the Best Market category of the Food Awards
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Britain's best food producers
Sun 27 Nov 2011
Sheila Dillon reports on the winners and finalists of the 蜜芽传媒 Food and Farming Awards 2011
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A Special (Food) Relationship
Sun 20 Nov 2011
Mark Bittman, chief food writer at the New York Times, meets three campaigning UK chefs.
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Future Food
Sun 13 Nov 2011
Simon Parkes meets the people trying to come up with food ideas for the future.
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Into the Wild
Sun 6 Nov 2011
Feeding a restaurant trend, Sheila Dillon investigates the world of commercial foragers.
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Palm Oil
Sun 30 Oct 2011
A traditional cooking oil and a controversial food ingredient. What's up with palm oil?
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The Calorie
Sun 23 Oct 2011
Sheila Dillon asks if the calorie is an outdated way of controlling diet.
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Pickling and Preserving
Sun 16 Oct 2011
Sheila Dillon looks at some of the ingenious ways we have developed of preserving food.
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Los Angeles Street Food
Sun 9 Oct 2011
Richard Johnson travels to Los Angeles, a city where many of the world's food trends begin
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Beer - Trouble Brewing?
Sun 2 Oct 2011
As tax on low-alcohol beer is cut, Sheila Dillon asks how problem drinking can be tackled.
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Food ads and children
Sun 25 Sep 2011
Sheila Dillon explores the issue of advertising junk food to children.
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The Honey Business
Sun 18 Sep 2011
Sheila Dillon takes a look behind the scenes of the honey industry.
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Food Poverty
Sun 11 Sep 2011
Simon Parkes reveals a Britain in which hunger and hard food choices are all too real.
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Food Icons: George Perry-Smith
Sun 4 Sep 2011
The story and legacy of the maverick, self taught, legendary chef George Perry-Smith.
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Kitchen Designers
Sun 28 Aug 2011
A special edition with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen looking at the history of kitchen design.
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Food Icons: Major Patrick Rance
Sun 21 Aug 2011
In a series on people who've changed the way we eat, The Food Programme profiles Pat Rance
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Scotland's Food Policy
Sun 14 Aug 2011
With Sheila Dillon. A look at Scotland's first ever national food policy.
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Mario Cassandro
Sun 7 Aug 2011
Sheila Dillon looks at the life of Mario Cassandro, a man who re-invented the restaurant.
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Yeast
Sun 31 Jul 2011
A global commodity, and now part of a food revival. Sheila Dillon on the wonders of yeast.
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School Food
Sun 24 Jul 2011
Sheila Dillon follows two schools as they attempt to transform the way their pupils eat.
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Emergency Food
Sun 17 Jul 2011
Sheila Dillon investigates how emergency foods are made for disasters, droughts and wars.
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