Podcast Episodes

DIY Food

DIY Foods - Tim Hayward meets the people taking ambitious food production into their own hands. Andy Mahoney makes his own cheese in the spare room o…

12 years, 4 months ago

In Praise of Bacon

An Ode To The Bacon Butty. Hardeep Singh Kohli's personal plea to the nation to reflect on a food of wonder: bacon. Hardeep goes on a roadtrip around…

12 years, 4 months ago

Feeding the Detectives

Dan Saladino looks at how food has increasingly become a big ingredient in crime fiction.

12 years, 5 months ago

A World Stage for Food and Music

Every year at the WOMAD festival, one tent in a field in Wiltshire becomes the venue for a remarkable meeting of food and music. Solo artists and ban…

12 years, 5 months ago

The Banana - fascinating history, uncertain future

Sheila Dillon asks why the future of the UK's most popular fruit, the banana, is uncertain.

Producer: Emma Weatherill.

12 years, 5 months ago

Skint Foodies

Sheila Dillon meets the cooks specialising in great food on small budgets, part of a world of food blogging influenced by life of benefits, periods o…

12 years, 5 months ago

Rethinking Veganism

The word 'vegan' has for the nearly seventy years of its existence - represented a diet and a way of eating that has not captured hearts - or stomach…

12 years, 5 months ago

Valentine Warner and Magnus Nilsson's Food Exchange, Part 2

In part two of their exchange of food stories Magnus Nilsson invites Valentine Warner to venture into the lakes of Sweden's Jamtland in search of wil…

12 years, 6 months ago

Valentine Warner and Magnus Nilsson's Food Exchange

In a two part special Valentine Warner and Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson swap food stories from their own very different food cultures.

Magnus Nilsson c…

12 years, 6 months ago

Butter, a delicious story of decline and revival

Sheila Dillon meets a new generation of producers making butter special again.

12 years, 6 months ago