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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In search of a food champion
Thu 14 Jul 2022
As we search for a new global champion, we hear from two previous award winners
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Lemn Sissay: My life in five dishes
Thu 30 Jun 2022
Writer Lemn Sissay reflects on his life through memories of food
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The recipe translators
Thu 9 Jun 2022
We speak to the people who translate recipe books into different languages
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How a stoma changed my life
Thu 19 May 2022
Living with a stoma bag, and learning what to eat, and when
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The cost of 'getting ripped'
Thu 28 Apr 2022
Three men discuss the reality of pursuing a six-pack and how much of it is about food
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How to date a carnivore
Thu 21 Apr 2022
The highs and lows of being with someone who loves eating meat
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Tasting climate change
Thu 14 Apr 2022
Wine producers say a warming planet can be detected in the glass
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Food poverty in a rich country
Thu 7 Apr 2022
Three UK citizens discuss how difficult it can be to feed a family on a low income
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Food in the metaverse
Thu 31 Mar 2022
What food could look like in virtual worlds and what it means for restaurants
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A Ukrainian kitchen in London
Thu 17 Mar 2022
Two cookbook authors 鈥� one Russian, one Ukrainian 鈥� share memories of food and friendship
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An invisible crime
Thu 10 Mar 2022
Why drink spiking is misunderstood and underreported and how it can change
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The recipe collectors
Thu 3 Mar 2022
The challenge of preserving recipes and what is at stake if they are lost
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The online food fighters
Thu 17 Feb 2022
The people taking on misinformation about food and nutrition on social media
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The constipation taboo
Thu 10 Feb 2022
What we could learn about our health and happiness if constipation was normalised
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The sisters who can 'taste' words
Thu 3 Feb 2022
The weird and wonderful world of synaesthesia - a puzzling neurological phenomenon
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Cancer, food and me
Thu 27 Jan 2022
Three women discuss how chemotherapy has changed their relationship with food
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How not to feed a dog
Thu 20 Jan 2022
What we feed our four-legged friends and what it reveals about our relationship with food
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Sleep, eat, repeat?
Thu 13 Jan 2022
The vicious circle of too little rest and too much of the wrong food
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So, you think you can quit caffeine?
Thu 6 Jan 2022
Three people who tried giving up the world鈥檚 most commonly-used psychoactive drug
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The Food Chain unwrapped
Thu 30 Dec 2021
Revisiting some of the most powerful food stories from the pandemic
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Why I chose to live on rations
Thu 23 Dec 2021
What powdered eggs and tinned ham can teach us about our modern food system
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An alternative Christmas
Thu 16 Dec 2021
Japan's love affair with fried chicken and the story of a very Chinese Jewish Christmas
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(Film) Set menu
Thu 9 Dec 2021
The gruelling job of feeding cast and crew on a major movie or TV production
Food Chain highlights
Tea, coffee, spices, chillies ... snack on a selection of programme highlights
