Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Dog's Dinner?
Pet food is a global multi-billion dollar industry, but does it cater more to us humans than our four-legged friends? We swap the dinner plate for th…
10 years ago
Disaster Food: Feeding a Country in Crisis
How does a country feed itself following an earthquake, flood or drought?
The Food Chain looks at the role of food in disaster relief - from the emer…
10 years ago
Bottled Water: Do We Really Need It?
It has been described as the ultimate marketing trick, but the allure of bottled water is something more and more people are swallowing. With global …
10 years, 1 month ago
Animals on Antibiotics: Could Pigs on Pills Make us Ill?
The animals we eat consume more than 60% of the world’s antibiotics - but not always because they are sick. This week, the Food Chain explores the co…
10 years, 1 month ago
Food Chain Late Night
As part of the BBC’s Identity season we meet the people who feed us after hours, following the characters and cuisines that only come out after dark.…
10 years, 1 month ago
Front of House
What’s life like for a career waiter at the top of their game? The Food Chain looks at the business of serving and pleasing the ever-fickle customer.…
10 years, 2 months ago
Food and Nostalgia
Manuela Saragosa explores the power food has to evoke memory and how memory impacts the food we eat.
Jamie Oliver’s mentor – Italian chef Gennaro Con…
10 years, 2 months ago
Is Convenience Killing Us?
Food that has been processed, packaged, flavoured and often pre-cooked for us has increasingly become a normal part of everyday life around the globe…
10 years, 2 months ago
Food Waste: How Low Can it Go?
This week, the Food Chain delves deep into food waste: a global problem of epic proportions that is costing one in every three of the world's calorie…
10 years, 2 months ago
No Such Thing as a Free Lunch?
From power lunches to 'desktop dining', we unpick the relationship between food and the workplace. We trace how industrialisation played its part in …
10 years, 2 months ago