Podcast Episodes

Stranded! How to eat on a desert island.

Dan Saladino arrives on a beach for a Robinson Crusoe experience. Will he be able to survive on wild food? Chef Gill Meller and foragers John Wright …

6 years, 7 months ago

What makes an excellent food producer?

What does it take to produce delicious food of the highest quality in the UK in 2019?

This year, it was the turn of chef, food writer, BBC TV present…

6 years, 8 months ago

Feeding the High Street: Are food shops the answer?

At a time when shops are closing across the country, we visit three food retail businesses that are bucking the trend. Levenshulme Market in Greater …

6 years, 8 months ago

How reassuring are food assurance labels?

Food assurance labels come in all sorts of forms, appearing on all sorts of ingredients available from shops across the UK. Their logos promise certi…

6 years, 8 months ago

Top Banana: The Future of the World's Most Popular Fruit

Dan Saladino meets the scientists working on the future of a truly global food, the banana.

6 years, 8 months ago

How to Start a Food Revolution: The Food Adventures of Claus Meyer

Can you reinvent a food culture? Dan Saladino meets a man who did, Denmark's Claus Meyer, the co-founder of Noma, one of the world's most influential…

6 years, 9 months ago

Tipping Point: Time to Rethink the Service Charge?

Should you leave a cash tip or is card just as good, do you prefer a service charge or would you get rid of tipping altogether?

Sheila Dillon finds o…

6 years, 9 months ago

Life of Pie

One September Ella Risbridger tried to kill herself. She survived and left the hospital thinking about making a pie. When she got home, her partner p…

6 years, 9 months ago

Would you let a robot cook you dinner?

Robots are building burgers, stretching dough in pizzerias and cooking up a media storm. Soon, they could deliver our groceries, invent recipes using…

6 years, 9 months ago

Delicious and Endangered: The Story of Bluefin Tuna

Dan Saladino travels from Brixham to Tokyo in search of Bluefin tuna.

In recent months there have been more sightings of the endangered fish in Brit…

6 years, 10 months ago