The Food Chain Podcast
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
Episodes to download
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Survival Stories: 鈥榃e Ate Spiders, Flies and Worms鈥�
Sat 17 Dec 2016
Two students tell us their survival diet whilst lost in a remote part of Turkey.
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Hunger in the Rich World
Sat 10 Dec 2016
Why do people struggle to feed themselves in wealthy societies?
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The Hidden Cost of a Home-Cooked Meal
Sat 3 Dec 2016
The sacrifices made by some women to put a meal on the family table.
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Full English Brexit
Sat 26 Nov 2016
What happens to food on the British breakfast table in a post-Brexit world?
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Dining with the Dead
Sat 29 Oct 2016
Death's role in centuries of food culture, from corpse cakes to Mexico's Day of the Dead.
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Vegan Babies: Should You Restrict Your Child鈥檚 Diet?
Sat 22 Oct 2016
Are parents wrong to impose their own restrictive diets on their children?
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Should We All Be Vegans?
Sat 15 Oct 2016
What would happen if everyone stopped eating animal products?
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The Olympics of Chinese Food
Sat 1 Oct 2016
Can a team of UK chefs win gold in the ultimate test of Chinese cuisine?
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Pestatarians
Sat 24 Sep 2016
Rats, squirrels camels, pigeons and snakes are considered vermin so should we eat them?
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The New Sushi
Sat 17 Sep 2016
Some say insects will be the next food fad. How do you feel about crunching on a cricket?
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Survival Stories: Fish bacon for breakfast
Sat 20 Aug 2016
Our second episode to explore our relationship with food in extreme circumstances.
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Survival Stories: Lost in the Desert
Sat 13 Aug 2016
The story of Ann Rodgers, who went missing in the Arizona wilderness back in March 2016.
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Fertile Food
Sat 6 Aug 2016
How much could your diet help you have a child? We separate the facts from the fiction.
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Food on the Move: What We Want, When We Want It
Sat 30 Jul 2016
How does our food move around the world?
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Inside the Kitchens of Power
Sat 23 Jul 2016
We enter an arena usually hidden from public view - the kitchens that feed world leaders
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Beauty from Within?
Sat 16 Jul 2016
The rise of nutricosmetics - foods that are claimed to make you beautiful
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Can Cheese Help Save an Economy?
Sat 9 Jul 2016
Could cheese be the answer to some of Albania鈥檚 economic woes?
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Plough Your Own Furrow?
Sat 2 Jul 2016
After the UK vote to leave the EU, we look at models for agriculture around the world
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Seeds, Syrup and Subversion
Sat 18 Jun 2016
The rebels and revolutionaries fighting against what some see as a food dictatorship
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Faster Food
Sat 11 Jun 2016
As the Rio Olympics edge closer, we explore how food can make you a better athlete
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Extreme Farming
Sat 4 Jun 2016
How a tiny country has become the world's second biggest exporter of farmed food.
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Is Junk Food the New Smoking?
Sat 28 May 2016
Is the junk food industry like the big tobacco companies when it comes to marketing?
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Fish Fight
Sat 21 May 2016
With fish stocks dwindling and illegal fishing rife, how do you police the oceans?
Food Chain highlights
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