Podcast Episodes

The Food Innovators

Dan Saladino explore three big ideas that are set to influence the future of food and farming: the reinvention of wheat, supplies of wild meat into h…

3 years, 3 months ago

So You Want to Be a Bartender?

Welcome to the world of cocktails and the people who make them.

As Jaega Wise discovers in this programme, it's a world of extremes. On one hand, in …

3 years, 3 months ago

Cost of Living Crisis: Food Donations

As energy bills rise to their new capped level at the start of October, Leyla Kazim shares some inspiring stories of giving that she has heard while …

3 years, 3 months ago

Hospital food - a turning point?

The quality of hospital food around the country remains a very mixed picture, despite various initiatives over the last decades. But now there is rea…

3 years, 3 months ago

Cooperation: the solution to a food crisis?

The co-op that's saving land, a food culture and villages at risk of being abandoned. In Benevento, Italy, Lentamente is also giving former convicts …

3 years, 3 months ago

The Hairy Bikers: Full Throttle Food

Thirty years ago, Dave Myers, a specialist prosthetic make-up artist walked into a pub in Newcastle after scoring a job on a Catherine Cookson TV dra…

3 years, 4 months ago

A Very British Restaurant Revolution – Jeremy Lee and the joy of ingredients that sing

Sheila Dillon hears the story of one of the most loved and admired chefs in the business, Jeremy Lee, and celebrates the joy of his simple ingredient…

3 years, 4 months ago

Cost of Living Crisis: The Food Factor

The latest calculations from economists point to an inflation rate for average shopping baskets of just under 12 per cent, but as Dan Saladino hears …

3 years, 4 months ago

Feeding the Circus

Meet the chef who ran away with the circus. Ols Halas is one of the longest-serving cast members at much-loved Gifford's Circus. As well as being hea…

3 years, 4 months ago

Fried Chicken: a story of race and identity

Since the American Civil War to the present day, fried chicken has been used to create negative stereotypes of black people. These stereotypes and th…

3 years, 5 months ago