Podcast Episodes

Bitterness

Dan Saladino hunts down that flavour we call 'bitter', and asks if bitterness is disappearing from our food and drink - and why this matters.

Bitter t…

10 years, 6 months ago

Food Stories from Syria 1

The continuing conflict in Syria has caused millions of people to flee the country. Images of men, women and children living in camps, walking vast d…

10 years, 6 months ago

The Ark of Taste: The Story so Far

This is a race against time. Earlier this year The Food Programme set out to record stories of foods around the world facing extinction, a project th…

10 years, 6 months ago

Jam Tomorrow... Today

Jam. Think sticky apricot and saccharine strawberry? Think again. Our British love affair with jam goes back to the sweet-toothed 17th century. But n…

10 years, 6 months ago

Libera Terra: Sicily's Anti-Mafia Farms

Dan Saladino finds out how farms confiscated from Sicily's mafia are providing food and wine, helping to fight crime and providing a future for a new…

10 years, 6 months ago

My Food Hero: Ella McSweeney Meets Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry has been described as 'An American Hero' but his work and teaching have inspired and influenced leaders, writers and campaigners around…

10 years, 7 months ago

My Food Hero: Dan Saladino meets Mary Taylor-Simeti

Dan Saladino retraces his Sicilian food roots and goes in search of a great expert on the island's cuisine, Mary Taylor Simeti. She left America in t…

10 years, 7 months ago

My Food Hero: Sheila Dillon meets writer and campaigner Susan George

In the second of a special series of food heroes, Sheila Dillon meets one of the most influential writers on international hunger and social justice …

10 years, 7 months ago

My Food Hero: Tim Hayward meets Len Deighton

Tim Hayward meets the man who changed the whole way he approached food. Someone who inspired Tim, and many others, to look at food and the techniques…

10 years, 7 months ago

Going Pop

Staying sober on a night out can be a limiting experience with the soft drinks choice on offer in many places. But with an increasing number of 16-24…

10 years, 8 months ago