Podcast Episodes

The Story of the Digestive: From grain to biscuit.

Dan Saladino tells the story of one of Britain's oldest and most popular biscuits, the digestive. He follows the story from a farmers wheat field to …

4 years, 4 months ago

Flour to the People.

Dan Saladino finds out how farmers, millers and bakers are reclaiming wheat, flour and bread in Scotland. When flour ran out during the pandemic the…

4 years, 5 months ago

Andrew Wong: A Life Through Food

“It’s about trying to paint pictures – of different places, different moments in time, throughout China’s past.”

Andrew Wong grew up helping out in hi…

4 years, 5 months ago

Catering in Care Homes

The Coronavirus pandemic has brought into focus the lives of older and disabled people living in care homes like never before. From the start of the …

4 years, 5 months ago

The Great Food Reset?

Dan Saladino finds out why a UN summit to transform the global food system has become so controversial. It has generated 2500 ideas for change but al…

4 years, 5 months ago

Plate of the Nation: Second Serving

Could we kick-start a major transformation of our food system, in just three years?

That's the ambition of the National Food Strategy, the first indep…

4 years, 5 months ago

Drinking Culture: The women calling out sexism in the alcohol industry

Over the past year, women working in different parts of the drinks industry have been sharing their stories and experiences to try to change the way …

4 years, 6 months ago

Unpacking the Great British Picnic

In a country where weather is notoriously fickle, how has the picnic become such a beloved institution?

Jaega Wise rolls out a blanket and invites a …

4 years, 6 months ago

Cyrus Todiwala: A Life Through Food

From Mumbai childhood to pioneering London chef, Mr Todiwala's Life Through Food; a story involving the legendary dish Bombay Duck and an important c…

4 years, 6 months ago

The Medical Field: Why student doctors are getting out on farms

The Food Programme first met Iain Broadley and Ally Jaffee in 2017, when they were studying medicine in Bristol.

The pair saw a disconnect between th…

4 years, 6 months ago