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The Food Programme Episodes

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    Feeding the Detectives

    Dan Saladino looks at how food has increasingly become a big ingredient in crime fiction.

  2. A World Stage for Food and Music

    How cooks from 12 countries gathered to share food and music on stage at Womad.

  3. The Banana - fascinating history, uncertain future

    Sheila Dillon asks why the future of the UK's most popular fruit, the banana, is uncertain

  4. Skint Foodies

    Sheila Dillon meets the cooks who've specialised in making great food on very low incomes.

  5. Rethinking Veganism

    How a new generation is rethinking and embracing a meat and dairy free diet.

  6. Valentine Warner and Magnus Nilsson's Food Exchange, Part 2

    Magnus Nilsson and Valentine Warner fish the lakes of Sweden's Jamtland for wild trout.

  7. Valentine Warner and Magnus Nilsson's Food Exchange

    Valentine Warner and chef Magnus Nilsson swap food stories. In part one, British wild boar

  8. Butter, a delicious story of decline and revival

    Sheila Dillon meets a new generation of producers making butter special again.

  9. Food, game changers and career movers

    A look at the award winners who leaving high flying careers to follow their food passions.

  10. The chocolate world of Mott Green

    The story of Mott Green, Grenadian cocoa farmer, who tried to change the chocolate world.

  11. Bereavement and Food

    Sheila Dillon explores how bereavement can change our relationship with food.

  12. Michael Pollan: Why Cooking Matters

    Sheila Dillon speaks to Michael Pollan on the craft, science and pleasures of cooking.

  13. Sugar: Pure, White and Deadly?

    Sheila Dillon finds out why the debate about the role of sugar in our lives is hotting up.

  14. Food, Cancer and Well-Being

    Sheila Dillon asks if food and nutrition should have a bigger role in treating cancer.

  15. A Life Through Wine: Jancis Robinson

    Sheila Dillon speaks to world-renowned wine writer and critic Jancis Robinson.

  16. Digital Dishes - life stories through recipes

    Inside one kitchen, 13 strangers from all over Europe share food and stories.

  17. Black Pudding v Boudin Noir

    Charles Campion reveals the secrets of great black pudding at the 'world championships'.

  18. Food on the Road

    Sheila Dillon goes trucking and finds out what it's like to work, live and eat on the road

  19. Chilli Britannia

    Tim Hayward bites into Britain's growing chilli scene, from growers to expert eaters.

  20. Madhur Jaffrey, a life through food

    Madhur Jaffrey, Indian cooking legend, returns to India and tells her food life story.

  21. Fasting, old and new

    Sheila Dillon looks at the practice of fasting from a religious and medical perspective.

  22. Marmalade

    Tim Hayward asks if Britain can still hold its own in the competitive marmalade stakes.

  23. Our Changing Taste

    How our sense of taste develops throughout our lifetimes and what happens when we lose it.

  24. Forest foods, Africa's secret ingredients

    Sheila Dillon explores Africa's forest foods, emergency larder and source of flavour.

  25. US Southern Cooking and Chef Sean Brock

    Richard Johnson is in Charleston, South Carolina to see how a chef is reviving lost food.

  26. The Death of Three Square Meals?

    Sheila Dillon asks if snacking is killing the tradition of three square meals a day.

  27. Garlic, the wonder bulb

    Sheila Dillon explores a bulb which arouses strong feelings - and aromas - garlic.

  28. Horsemeat Scandal: A Food Programme Special

    Sheila Dillon reports on the latest developments in the horsemeat scandal.

  29. Food on a Pension

    Sheila Dillon investigates the food lives of people surviving on the basic state pension.

  30. Food in the life of Sir Paul McCartney

    Sheila Dillon with an exclusive food interview with former Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney.

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