The Food Programme Podcast
Investigating every aspect of the food we eat
Episodes to download
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Dishing The Dirt on Clean Eating
Mon 14 Aug 2017
Grace Dent discovers what has made Anthony Warner into the Angry Chef.
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Patience Gray: A Life Through Food
Mon 7 Aug 2017
Jojo Tulloh, Adam Federman and Louise Gray introduce the food writing of Patience Gray.
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Summer camping special
Mon 31 Jul 2017
Sheila Dillon, Cerys Matthews and friends go camping to celebrate food in the outdoors.
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Greece: Return to the land?
Mon 24 Jul 2017
Sheila Dillon is on a trip through crisis hit Greece to meet people making a life in food.
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Sandor Katz and the Art of Fermentation
Mon 17 Jul 2017
Dan Saladino heads to Tennessee to meet the fermentation teacher and writer Sandor Katz.
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Hunting With The Hadza 2: The Microbiome.
Mon 10 Jul 2017
Dan Saladino asks if hunter gatherers the Hadza tribe hold the key to our future health.
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Hunting with the Hadza
Mon 3 Jul 2017
Dan Saladino eats with one of the last remaining hunter gatherer tribes, Tanzania's Hadza.
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Diet and Dementia: An Update
Mon 26 Jun 2017
An update on cook Paula Wolfert and entrepreneur James Ashwell's food and dementia stories
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Alastair Little: A Life through Food
Mon 19 Jun 2017
Sheila Dillon meets pioneering chef and food writer Alastair Little.
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Women & Beer
Mon 12 Jun 2017
Beer sommelier Jane Peyton wants to persuade Sheila Dillon to drink beer made by women.
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Cult Fiction and Food
Mon 5 Jun 2017
Confederacy of Dunces to Absolute Beginners, Dan Saladino looks at food in cult fiction.
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Turmeric
Mon 29 May 2017
Sheila Dillon investigates the culinary use and the latest medical findings on turmeric.
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Mac 'n' Cheese
Mon 22 May 2017
Sheila Dillon on the humble mac'n'cheese, a dish that crosses culture and classes.
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The Chef Who Vanished - The Story of Jeremiah Tower
Mon 15 May 2017
Jeremiah Tower changed the idea of what a chef could be. Dan Saladino tells his story.
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The Herbal World of Jekka McVicar
Mon 8 May 2017
Culinary herb pioneer Jekka McVicar shares her life through food with Sheila Dillon.
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Out Like a Lamb
Mon 1 May 2017
Is lamb in a stew? SORTEDfood help understand why millennials aren't cooking with lamb.
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The Potato
Mon 24 Apr 2017
Sheila Dillon on how the potato changed the world, and might shape our food future.
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Food Stories from Venezuela Part 2: Maria Fernanda Di Giacobbe
Mon 17 Apr 2017
Dan Saladino meets a woman who believes Venezuela's escape from crisis rests on chocolate.
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Food Stories from Venezuela: Eating in a Failed State.
Mon 10 Apr 2017
Venezuela is seeing its worst crisis in living memory. Dan Saladino tells the food story.
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Blood
Mon 3 Apr 2017
Tim Hayward wants you to cook with blood. Surely it's not as scary as it sounds?...
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Chef Dan Barber: The Third Plate
Mon 27 Mar 2017
Dan Saladino meets influential US chef Dan Barber, in the UK on a food 'waste' mission.
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大象传媒 Food & Farming Awards 2017: The Finalists
Mon 20 Mar 2017
The finalists of the 大象传媒 Food and Farming Awards 2017 are revealed.
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Tea: A Coffee Drinker's Guide, Part 2
Mon 13 Mar 2017
Do we pay enough for tea? Dan Saladino continues his look at our love affair with the leaf
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Tea: A Coffee Drinker's Guide
Mon 6 Mar 2017
Dan Saladino investigates tea's past, present and future and explores our changing tastes.
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Thailand: A Royal Food Legacy
Mon 27 Feb 2017
How a 50-year-old food and farming project has helped rid Thailand of illegal opium.
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Let's Do Lunch
Mon 20 Feb 2017
In the time taken for your average midday meal, Sheila Dillon unpacks the future of lunch.
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Citrus
Mon 13 Feb 2017
Sheila Dillon steps into a vivid, flavour-filled and surprising world of citrus.
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Gumbo
Mon 6 Feb 2017
Dan Saladino finds out how one dish, gumbo, can reveal centuries of American history.
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Leah Chase: The cook who changed America
Mon 30 Jan 2017
Legendary New Orleans cook Leah Chase tells her story of seven decades in the kitchen.
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Lancashire: My Food Roots
Sun 22 Jan 2017
Sheila Dillon returns to her food roots, taking a road trip through Lancashire.
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