Podcast Episodes

Will robot pickers change our fruit?

Across the world, as fruits ripen, teams of pickers set out across the fields. Without them, produce would be left to rot and farms profits would plu…

6 years, 7 months ago

How to date a vegan

How can you have a successful relationship with someone whose eating habits you find repulsive, infuriating, even morally abhorrent? What do you do w…

6 years, 7 months ago

How to cook for a megastar

What do the most famous names in film, sport and politics eat for dinner, and what does it say about who they really are? Three private chefs give us…

6 years, 8 months ago

Down on the farm: Suicide, stress and farmers

Farming has some of the highest suicide rates of any profession in many parts of the world. Emily Thomas explores why depression and stress amongst …

6 years, 8 months ago

Ken Hom: My life in five dishes

Ken Hom is a Chinese-American cook who became famous for introducing Chinese cooking to the British public through a BBC TV series in the early 1980s…

6 years, 8 months ago

Eating with Etna

What’s it like to live and farm on one of the world’s most active volcanoes? Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, regularly erupts, blasting lava and ash ove…

6 years, 8 months ago

Foraging: Pleasure or profit?

Most of us have no need to hunt in the wild for our food, so why is foraging seeing a resurgence in some parts of the world?

Emily Thomas speaks to p…

6 years, 9 months ago

Ritual slaughter under threat

Belgium is the latest European country to put restrictions on religious slaughter methods. For many this is purely an animal welfare issue, but other…

6 years, 9 months ago

The young pub bosses reviving the British boozer

For decades we’ve been warned about the demise of the British pub, but despite this the number of young people signing up to run them appears to be r…

6 years, 9 months ago

Dynasties

What’s it like to have food in your blood? Would you want to spend all day working with your family, even if it was in a brewery or a chocolate facto…

6 years, 9 months ago