Podcast Episodes

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, 3 months ago

Cookbooks of 2019

Pinch of Nom, Charred and East are among the titles up for discussion as Sheila Dillon and guests gather in Hay-on-Wye to review 2019's best cookbook…

6 years, 3 months ago

Eating Animals Part 2: A Meat Q&A.

Dan Saladino, Sheila Dillon and a range of experts ranging from climate scientists to beef producers answer your questions on meat eating and the fut…

6 years, 4 months ago

Eating Animals Part 1: The Future of Meat

Dan Saladino finds out why tensions are running so high over animal vs plant based diets.

In October 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Cha…

6 years, 4 months ago

The Food Programme at 40: Looking Forward (Part II)

Andi Oliver, Rick Stein and Yotam Ottolenghi join Sheila Dillon at the BBC Radio Theatre to celebrate 40 years of The Food Programme and ask what cha…

6 years, 4 months ago

The Food Programme at 40: Looking Back (Part I)

Andi Oliver, Rick Stein and Yotam Ottolenghi join Sheila Dillon at the BBC Radio Theatre to celebrate 40 years of The Food Programme and ask what cha…

6 years, 4 months ago

Smoke and Celebration: Exploring Bonfire Night food traditions

Autumn is the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness – when the air is perfumed with bonfire smoke, sweet crisp apples are weighing down orchard bra…

6 years, 5 months ago

Brexit: The Tomato's Story. What can one food tell us about the future?

Dan Saladino uses the story the tomato to examine the impact of the new Brexit on food.

6 years, 5 months ago

Could a food project from India solve the UK’s holiday hunger problem?

As many UK schools break for half term, chef Romy Gill and Sheila Dillon focus on our national problem with holiday hunger.

Earlier this year, a UN sp…

6 years, 5 months ago

Joe Wicks: A Life Through Food

When Joe Wicks, the personal trainer, started making Instagram videos in his kitchen in 2014, he couldn't have imagined he'd become author of the sec…

6 years, 5 months ago