Podcast Episodes

Food ads and children

Sheila Dillon explores the issue of advertising junk food to children, and how companies have changed their marketing since the banning of the showin…

14 years, 3 months ago

The Honey Business

Honey, prized since ancient times, is today shipped all over the planet. It is used as a pure foodstuff, a sweetening agent, in food manufacturing as…

14 years, 3 months ago

Food Poverty

Across the UK, people are going hungry and not getting enough of the foods that they need. Every week, new food banks - where food is given out for f…

14 years, 4 months ago

Food Icons: George Perry-Smith

Simon Parkes tells the story and legacy of the legendary and maverick chef George Perry-Smith.

In 1952 he opened The Hole in the Wall restaurant in B…

14 years, 4 months ago

Kitchen Designers

A special edition with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen looking at the history of kitchen designs and the designers who have influenced the most important spa…

14 years, 4 months ago

Food Icons: Major Patrick Rance

In a series looking at the people who've changed the way we eat, The Food Programme profiles the campaigner and cheese expert Major Patrick Rance.

In …

14 years, 4 months ago

Scotland's Food Policy

The Food Programme looks at Scotland's first ever national food policy, introduced by the SNP, to try and join up every aspect of food production and…

14 years, 5 months ago

Mario Cassandro

Sheila Dillon looks back at the life of Mario Cassandro - the man who helped re-invent the restaurant in Britain.

Together with his business partner, …

14 years, 5 months ago

Yeast

Yeasts, mysterious members of the fungi kingdom, are an essential part of our food production. They play a critical role in baking, brewing, wine-mak…

14 years, 5 months ago

School Food

Sheila Dillon follows two schools as they attempt to transform the way their pupils eat.

14 years, 5 months ago