Podcast Episodes

Fast Food Workers

With a new "living wage" announced Sheila Dillon explores the world of fast food workers. In the U.S. a campaign over low pay, started in 2012, has n…

10 years, 5 months ago

New Wine Generation

There's a revolution happening in the world of wine. While tradition once dictated the way things were done, a new generation of wine drinkers are sh…

10 years, 6 months ago

Feeding the Commons - Part II: Lunch to Lights Out

Following the food operation at the centre of British politics. Lunch to Lights out

The Food Programme team go behind the scenes of one of the most hi…

10 years, 6 months ago

Feeding the Commons - Part I: Breakfast to Brunch

Following the food operation at the centre of British politics. Breakfast to Brunch. The Food Programme team go behind the scenes of one of the most …

10 years, 6 months ago

Fantastic Fiction and Fabulous Feasts

Close your eyes and think for a moment about the books you read as a child and those that talked about food. A vivid description of a flavour can spa…

10 years, 6 months ago

Simon Hopkinson: A Life Through Food - Part 2

Cook and writer Simon Hopkinson was at the height of his powers in the kitchen of Bibendum in London in the early 1990s, but he'd walk away from prof…

10 years, 7 months ago

Simon Hopkinson: A Life Through Food - Part 1

Cook and food writer Simon Hopkinson shares his culinary life story with Sheila Dillon. In a food career spanning four decades he's been an influenti…

10 years, 7 months ago

Barbecue

From the 'slow and low' tradition of the American south to the village of Llantwit Major in South Wales, Dan Saladino explores the revival of one of …

10 years, 7 months ago

Rick Stein - A Life Through Food (Part 2)

In this second part of a two-programme special, Rick Stein continues in conversation with Sheila Dillon talking about how he was discovered for TV by…

10 years, 7 months ago

Salt, Pepper... and Seaweed?

Highly regarded for its health benefits, people living by the shore have been eating seaweed for millennia. In Ireland, it was part of a prehistoric …

10 years, 7 months ago