Podcast Episodes

What Is Making My Child Fat? Part 2: The Debate and Your Questions.

When Professor Dame Sally Davies left her role as Chief Medical Officer for England in Autumn 2019, she didn't go quietly. Instead, she published a s…

5 years, 11 months ago

What Is Making My Child Fat? Part 1: Finding Solutions to the UK’s Child Obesity Issue

When Professor Dame Sally Davies left her role as Chief Medical Officer for England in Autumn 2019, she didn't go quietly. Instead, she published a s…

5 years, 11 months ago

Mary Berry: A Life Through Food

Sheila Dillon speaks to a veteran of the British food scene; a writer and television presenter who has made cooking – in particular baking – accessib…

5 years, 11 months ago

The Physicist In the Kitchen

Can a grounding in science help us become better cooks?

Dan Saladino speaks with chefs Heston Blumenthal, Raymond Blanc, food writers Harold McGee an…

5 years, 11 months ago

Yes We Can: What do the tins we eat say about the UK?

Baked beans, tinned pies, corned beef, creamed tomato soup, plum tomatoes, ackee, pineapple chunks and condensed milk.

Our store cupboards are burstin…

5 years, 11 months ago

Pints of progress: The brewers changing attitudes to learning disabilities

Brewer and broadcaster Jaega Wise visits breweries where a progressive approach to employing people with learning disabilities is pouring away precon…

6 years ago

Could eating microalgae be the next big thing?

Sheila Dillon enters the murky green and bright blue world of microalgae and cynobacteria to meet the people who believe humble pond scum could be th…

6 years ago

Is The Dinner Party Dead?

Cast your mind back to the days when as a child you’d be pushed into the backroom with the TV on a Saturday night whilst your parents ‘entertained fr…

6 years ago

Michel Roux Jr: A Life Through Food

Sheila Dillon visits London restaurant Le Gavroche, to speak to renowned chef Michel Roux Jr about food, family and festive inspiration.

Michel Jr is …

6 years ago

The Sugar Plum Shift: Exploring the ballet world’s changing approach to food, nutrition and body image

Sparkling lights, twinkly music, frothy tutus and perfectly pirouetting dancers: what could be more magical – and festive – than ballet?

This is an ar…

6 years, 1 month ago