Provenance and pleasure, history and health - Radio 4's weekly look at food. Making sense of food, from the kitchen and canteen, to the farm and factory. We place food in its historical and cultural context; call to account policy makers and industry decision makers; and celebrate the sheer pleasure of good food.
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Sun, 19 May 13
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon asks if food and nutrition should have a bigger role in treating cancer.
Thu, 16 May 13
Duration:
29 mins
Sheila Dillon speaks to world-renowned wine writer and critic Jancis Robinson.
Sun, 5 May 13
Duration:
28 mins
How 13 strangers from different food cultures, met, cooked and shared some fascinating culinary stories.
Tue, 30 Apr 13
Duration:
24 mins
Charles Campion goes in search of the perfect Black Pudding.
Sun, 21 Apr 13
Duration:
28 mins
An army of lorries and other road vehicles keep our food economy moving. Sheila Dillon finds out what it's like to work, live and eat on the road.
Thu, 18 Apr 13
Duration:
29 mins
Tim Hayward bites into Britain's growing chilli scene, from growers to expert eaters and those who like their chillies red hot.
Mon, 8 Apr 13
Duration:
28 mins
Madhur Jaffrey's life through food.
Mon, 1 Apr 13
Duration:
29 mins
Fasting - is it good for the soul, body and mind?
Mon, 25 Mar 13
Duration:
28 mins
Tim Hayward tastes the quirky world of competitive marmalade-making.
Mon, 18 Mar 13
Duration:
28 mins
We are only just beginning to understand why taste is important to our health and wellbeing. For writer Marlena Spieler it's essential and she realised just how, following a car accident and a head injury that deprived her of her sense of taste.
Mon, 11 Mar 13
Duration:
25 mins
Sheila Dillon explores Africa's forest foods, both an emergency larder and source of wonderful flavours. With the support of Comic Relief and funds raised through Red Nose Day work is underway to tap into the potential of this neglected food source. From Shea butter to Maringa, Sheila tastes her way through this story with Tony Hill of the charity Tree Aid, and Malcolm Riley, "the African Chef", whose cooking career started in Zambia. On the menu, prawns stir-fried in an ingredient from the baobab tree, and as Malcolm explains, it's "modern African cuisine". Producer: Dan Saladino
Mon, 11 Mar 13
Duration:
28 mins
Richard Johnson is in South Carolina to meet Charleston chef, Sean Brock, who is on a mission to revive ingredients and flavours not experienced for hundreds of years. It's a story that involves an intricate "food tattoo", one of America's biggest private seed collections, a hog roast and "pick picking" and bowls of delicious peas, beans, rice, grits and fried chicken. Producer: Dan Saladino
Mon, 25 Feb 13
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon examines the fashion for grazing and if it's summoned the death of three square meals a day.
Wed, 20 Feb 13
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon explores a bulb which arouses strong feelings and is now in most of our kitchens - garlic.
Fri, 15 Feb 13
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon investigates the food lives of people surviving on the basic state pension. To fully understand the experience of living on a small income and feeling the limitations of older age, food writer Andrew Webb volunteered to spend a week living as his 80 year old self. With an ageing population, an increase in food prices and cuts to local council services, The Food Programme investigates what our food future might look, feel and taste like.
Mon, 11 Feb 13
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon updates the latest on the horsemeat scandal and its implications.
Mon, 28 Jan 13
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon with an exclusive food interview with former Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney.
Mon, 21 Jan 13
Duration:
28 mins
In a special edition of The Food Programme, Sheila Dillon investigates the horsemeat burger scandal affecting food in the UK and Ireland, and reports on work underway to find out what went wrong in the supply chain.
Mon, 14 Jan 13
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon asks if warning signs on food labels can change the way we eat.
Fri, 4 Jan 13
Duration:
28 mins
Correspondents from around the world talk about trends in eating and food
Wed, 2 Jan 13
Duration:
28 mins
Dan Saladino explores the cocktail, a story which begins with 18th century Indian punch and keeps on evolving with new wave flavours being developed in the bars of New York , London, Bristol and Manchester.
Sun, 23 Dec 12
Duration:
25 mins
Sheila Dillon hears the necessary pleasures for Christmas of Jamie Oliver, Paul Hollywood and other leading chefs and food writers.
Mon, 17 Dec 12
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon discovers surprising stories behind humble British vegetables. Produced by Emma Weatherill
Mon, 10 Dec 12
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon finds a growing number of religious organisations providing food for people who've fallen on hard times.
Mon, 3 Dec 12
Duration:
27 mins
The meal behind the BBC Food and Farming Awards. Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Emma Weatherill.
Fri, 30 Nov 12
Duration:
48 mins
Sheila Dillon presents this year's BBC Food & Farming Awards. From Best Takeaway to Best Food Market producer, the judging team reveal the "best of the best" in British food and drink. At a ceremony described by Jamie Oliver as the "Oscars of the food world", Sheila and her co-host, cook and food writer Valentine Warner, take us through the stories of the finalists and announce this year's winners.
Mon, 26 Nov 12
Duration:
28 mins
Originally the street food of German immigrants to the United States, the hot dog was the original artisan sausage in the late nineteenth century before going 'downscale' and becoming the cheap food for the masses. Now not just a watery, synthetic thing from a can, a new breed of pedigree frankfurter is on the rise. Tom Parker Bowles reports.
Sun, 25 Nov 12
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon meets finalists in the BBC Food & Farming Awards offering ideas for our food future, from making more local food available online to redistributing spare food. Joining Sheila to explore these ideas are Kath Dalmeny, research director of Sustain, and Christine Tacon, former CEO of the Coop's farms. Under discussion are Growing Communities in East London, Riverford Organics in Devon, Cornish Food Market, The Real Bread Campaign, and Fareshare.
Tue, 13 Nov 12
Duration:
28 mins
From Moroccan food to traditional British puddings. Valentine Warner and Charles Campion taste their way through the BBC Food & Farming Awards "Best street food or takeaway" category.
Mon, 5 Nov 12
Duration:
29 mins
Tim Hayward delves into the guilty pleasure of eating saturated animal fat.
Mon, 29 Oct 12
Duration:
29 mins
John Inverdale looks at innovations in the food offerings at football grounds that aim to give fans and players alike a better eating experience than the traditional burger and pie.
Mon, 22 Oct 12
Duration:
31 mins
Tim Hayward investigates the future of the domestic oven, with the help of Mary Berry.
Mon, 15 Oct 12
Duration:
29 mins
Food waste campaigner Tristram Stuart on new ideas to reduce food waste in the UK.
Tue, 9 Oct 12
Duration:
29 mins
Sheila Dillon finds out why new British blue cheeses are pushing their way into the market.
Mon, 1 Oct 12
Duration:
28 mins
Valentine Warner reveals this year's line up of finalists in the BBC Food & Farming Awards. Dan Saladino goes to meet some of those who've made it to the final stage.
Sun, 23 Sep 12
Duration:
24 mins
Tom Parker Bowles examines the cinema eating experience from popcorn to picpoul and risotto
Sun, 16 Sep 12
Duration:
29 mins
Sheila Dillon finds out why sourdough bread is undergoing a major revival.
Mon, 10 Sep 12
Duration:
28 mins
Australia's food story. Two hundred years of gastronomic adventure.
Fri, 7 Sep 12
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon explores a food story of decline and revival, British mustard.
Wed, 29 Aug 12
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon embarks on a journey through the spice world, starting with the clove. She follows the story of the clove from harvest in Zanzibar to its use by chef Jeremy Lee.
Mon, 20 Aug 12
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon explores the history and flavours of the clove.
Mon, 13 Aug 12
Duration:
28 mins
Can changing our dining utensils change the flavour of food? Simon Parkes investigates.
Mon, 6 Aug 12
Duration:
28 mins
For most people, the idea of camping food is not an appetising one. You'll not find food-loving Tim Hayward under canvas unless it's in the big tent of a food festival. Tim looks again at camping food with Josh Sutton, aka the Guyrope Gourmet, and discovers a new take on 'local food'.
Mon, 30 Jul 12
Duration:
28 mins
Simon Parkes hears from some of the listeners nominating their favourite foods and producers in this year's awards
Mon, 23 Jul 12
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon meets Health Secretary Andrew Lansley and asks whether he can change Britain's bad eating habits
Mon, 16 Jul 12
Duration:
29 mins
Martha Payne (AKA 'VEG'), nine year old blogger, explains how she triggered a wordwide debate on school food.
Mon, 9 Jul 12
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon and food expert Henrietta Green visit on of the first 'Portas' towns to find out if food can be central to reviving our high streets
Mon, 2 Jul 12
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon investigates the future of the cookbook.
Mon, 25 Jun 12
Duration:
28 mins
The Olympic Food Vision set out to change the British food landscape. Will it succeed?
Mon, 18 Jun 12
Duration:
29 mins
Sheila Dillon launches the search for the winners of the 2012 BBC Food and Farming Awards.
Mon, 11 Jun 12
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon explores the world of the modern British tomato. Has flavour made a return?
Mon, 4 Jun 12
Duration:
29 mins
Simon Parkes reports from the London International Wine fair to discover the latest trends in the wine industry.
Sun, 27 May 12
Duration:
29 mins
Tim Hayward finds out how the British Breakfast became the envy of the world. Has eating breakfast become just another problem to solve rather than being a pleasurable experience?
Mon, 21 May 12
Duration:
28 mins
Tim Hayward examines the reasons for the renaissance of the pie
Mon, 14 May 12
Duration:
28 mins
Dan Saladino reports on a crop that the world can't get enough of.
Tue, 8 May 12
Duration:
28 mins
Nutritious, tasty but long overlooked, Sheila Dillon asks if seaweed is the food of the future?
Mon, 30 Apr 12
Duration:
28 mins
Since new EU welfare legislation was introduced for battery hens, eggs have been in short supply.
Mon, 23 Apr 12
Duration:
29 mins
Dan Saladino finds out why America's brewing scene is a growing influence on British beer.
Mon, 16 Apr 12
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon on an ancient, mysterious yet essential process at the heart of much of our food production- fermentation. Sheila is joined by author and fervent fermenter Sandor Katz to discover why a revival of the fermenting arts is underway.
Mon, 9 Apr 12
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon looks at the spiritual and therapeutic value many place on bread making. She meets a group of refugees who've experienced torture, using baking in their recovery.
Mon, 2 Apr 12
Duration:
28 mins
Simon Parkes delves into the fast-changing world of a British favourite, the biscuit.
Mon, 26 Mar 12
Duration:
29 mins
Tim Hayward is not alone in his passion for stock, but there must be few culinary adventurers who take things to the level of his highly developed home routine. Glasses still steamy from several simmering stockpots, Tim sets off on a journey into the world of stock. On his travels he'll share precious stock secrets, learn from the masters, tell tales of nineteenth-century Uruguay and peek behind the doors of stock-cube heaven.
Mon, 19 Mar 12
Duration:
29 mins
Sheila Dillon examines the reasons behind an apparent rise in food allergies and the resulting growth in free from foods.
Mon, 12 Mar 12
Duration:
28 mins
Richard Johnson reports from Japan on the impact of the Fukushima disaster on food. How has the threat of contamination changed attitudes to the nation's prized food culture?
Mon, 5 Mar 12
Duration:
29 mins
Sheila Dillon with authors Michael Pollan and Joanna Blythman on the shifting sands of our global diet.
Mon, 27 Feb 12
Duration:
29 mins
Who makes sure our food is safe and how? A report on Britain's food safety net. Sheila Dillon finds out why the current system is under review.
Mon, 20 Feb 12
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon looks at how people are clubbing together to buy budget and luxury food.
Mon, 13 Feb 12
Duration:
29 mins
In these uncomfortable times, Sheila Dillon asks what role does food play in giving comfort?
Mon, 6 Feb 12
Duration:
29 mins
Can a new wave of chefs and food writers change mainstream cuisine armed only with vegetable, grain and pulse? Sheila Dillon finds out. Featuring Yotam Ottolenghi, Denis Cotter, a van full of plastic flowers and 'pasta' made from radishes.
Mon, 30 Jan 12
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon explains why supplies of cocoa around the world are facing a challenging future.
Mon, 23 Jan 12
Duration:
28 mins
The Food Programme hears from the people coming up with new ideas and fresh thinking about how and where we produce food for the UK's future. From computer programmers creating networks for people trading food locally through to community supported market gardens, Sheila Dillon finds out how a new generation is coming up with radical models for growing, buying and selling food.
Mon, 16 Jan 12
Duration:
28 mins
Guest Presenter John Inverdale casts a sporting eye over the catering provisions for the London Olympics, and explores how nutrition for athletes has developed since the last London Games of 1948.
Mon, 9 Jan 12
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon reports on the major developments in the big food stories of 2011.
Sun, 1 Jan 12
Duration:
28 mins
Tim Hayward and The Food Quiz team juggle more food history, trivia and recipe knowledge in pursuit of fun and gastronomic curiosity. Recorded in front of a live audience at the Abergavenny Food Festival, this New Year edition of the Radio 4 Food Quiz features panellists comedian Chris Neill, food writer Richard Johnson, television presenter Gizzi Erskine and restaurant insider Thomas Blythe.
Sun, 25 Dec 11
Duration:
29 mins
Tim Hayward presents a special Christmas Day edition of The Food Quiz. Panellists Allegra McEvady, Richard Johnson and Chris Neill pit their gastronomic knowledge, grasp of food trivia and culinary history against each other.
Mon, 19 Dec 11
Duration:
28 mins
Dan Saladino explores the past, present and future of the most British of drinks, gin. He hears how a new generation of distillers is testing the boundaries of a familiar flavour.
Mon, 12 Dec 11
Duration:
29 mins
Dan Saladino exlores how higher food prices are changing what we buy and how we eat. From increases in food related crime to shortages of ingredients, what else is in store?
Mon, 5 Dec 11
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon, food campaigner Kath Dalmeny and chef Jeremy Lee discuss this year's winning markets at the Food and Farming Awards.
Mon, 28 Nov 11
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon and Richard Corrigan take a closer look at some of the finalists' stories from this year's Food and Farming Awards.
Fri, 25 Nov 11
Duration:
53 mins
Sheila Dillon and the biggest names in food celebrate the UK's best cooks, food markets, farmers and producers. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein, James Martin, Valentine Warner and Giorgio Locatelli help announce this years winners.
Mon, 21 Nov 11
Duration:
28 mins
Mark Bittman, chief food writer at the New York Times, journeys to the UK to see what he can learn from campaigning chefs Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver and Arthur Potts Dawson.
Mon, 14 Nov 11
Duration:
28 mins
Simon Parkes meets the people who experiment with food.
Mon, 7 Nov 11
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon investigates the food for free phenomenon, that sees top chefs using wild foods gathered by professional foragers.
Mon, 31 Oct 11
Duration:
29 mins
A traditional cooking oil and a controversial food ingredient found in everything from margarine to ready meals to biscuits to sweets. Dan Saladino journeys into the world of palm oil.
Mon, 24 Oct 11
Duration:
28 mins
Is the calorie an outdated way of monitoring our diet?
Mon, 17 Oct 11
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon goes foraging for autumn fruits and hears why preserving food has been important throughout the ages.
Mon, 10 Oct 11
Duration:
28 mins
Richard Johnson explores the street food culture of Los Angeles.
Mon, 3 Oct 11
Duration:
28 mins
As tax breaks on low-alcohol beer come in to effect, Sheila Dillon asks if this is the beginning of the end of 'business as usual' for the big brewers.
Mon, 26 Sep 11
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon explores the issue of advertising junk food to children since the banning of food advertisements during children's television programmes.
Mon, 19 Sep 11
Duration:
25 mins
In the wake of a significant EU ruling on GM pollen and honey, Sheila Dillon takes a look at the honey industry and meets the big packers, importers and traders.
Mon, 12 Sep 11
Duration:
25 mins
Simon Parkes reveals a Britain in which hunger and hard food choices are all too real.
Mon, 5 Sep 11
Duration:
29 mins
Simon Parkes on the life and legacy of maverick, self taught chef, George Perry-Smith.
Mon, 29 Aug 11
Duration:
28 mins
A special edition with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen looking at the history of kitchen designs and the designers who have influenced the most important space in our homes.
Mon, 22 Aug 11
Duration:
25 mins
In a series looking at iconic food personalities, The Food Programme profiles the campaigning cheese expert Major Patrick Rance.
Mon, 15 Aug 11
Duration:
28 mins
With Sheila Dillon. A look at Scotland's first ever national food policy.
Mon, 8 Aug 11
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon looks at the life of Mario Cassandro, a man who re-invented the restaurant.
Mon, 1 Aug 11
Duration:
28 mins
A global commodity, and now part of a food revival. Sheila Dillon on the wonders of yeast.
Mon, 25 Jul 11
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon follows two schools as they attempt to transform the way their pupils eat.
Mon, 18 Jul 11
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon finds out what goes into emergency foods destined for aid packages.
Mon, 11 Jul 11
Duration:
29 mins
Sheila Dillon investigates the issue of harmful trans-fats in our food.
Mon, 4 Jul 11
Duration:
24 mins
Sheila Dillon follows the River Nith from a hill farm down to the estuary; encountering rare breeds, tales of poaching, and an ancient Norse fishing tradition.
Mon, 27 Jun 11
Duration:
28 mins
Food writer Tim Hayward investigates a new wave of food entrepreneurship.
Mon, 20 Jun 11
Duration:
29 mins
Chef Sanjay Kumar travels to Italy to save the sardine.
Sun, 12 Jun 11
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon looks at the National Trust's attempts to become a major food player.
Mon, 6 Jun 11
Duration:
24 mins
Sheila Dillon looks at efforts to reclaim the burger as a gastronomic delight.
Mon, 30 May 11
Duration:
28 mins
The Food Programme asks if the Great British food renaissance is over. With food prices rising and consumer confidence falling, has the UK's good food bubble burst? Sheila Dillon meets chefs, farmers, producers of meat and cheese and retail analysts to find out what shoppers are buying.
Mon, 23 May 11
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon explores vinegars from around the world.
Mon, 23 May 11
Duration:
29 mins
Sheila Dillon investigates the causes and consequences of the current record highs in the price of coffee.
Mon, 9 May 11
Duration:
28 mins
Growing exciting food, while benefitting from, and combatting, climate change: Sheila Dillon visits's Mark Diacono's "climate change farm" in Devon.
Mon, 2 May 11
Duration:
28 mins
Simon Parkes traces the history and influence of food served at royal weddings and feasts.
Mon, 25 Apr 11
Duration:
28 mins
Artist Sophie Herxheimer collects and draws food stories, and for four months she's been meeting people in Margate to record their food memories.
Mon, 18 Apr 11
Duration:
29 mins
Borough Market's phenomenal success has brought with it fears that tourists have driven out real food shoppers,and rising rents may price out small food producers. Sheila Dillon visits Britains foremost quality food retail market to find out how success is treating it.
Tue, 12 Apr 11
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon investigates the ways in which the mafia has influenced food in Sicily.
Tue, 5 Apr 11
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon explores a food story behind the 150th anniversary of Italian unification. In 1861 Italians came together as one nation, but does food reveal a different story? Sheila travels to Sicily where she hears how the island's powerful food culture is seen as evidence by some of disappointment with the creation of a nation state. She meets food historian Mary Taylor Simeti who explains how menus in the 19th century show how Sicilians rejected the temptations of food from the mainland and further afield.
Mon, 28 Mar 11
Duration:
28 mins
Natural Wine is the latest buzz in the wine world but what is it? Sheila Dillon discusses and samples this chemical and additive-free "new" wine that was in fact quaffed by the Ancient Romans.
Mon, 21 Mar 11
Duration:
28 mins
Frozen food has been the clear winner of the recession. But couldn't it be a bit more interesting? Simon Parkes looks at the premium French chain Picard, and asks why our own freezer aisles are often rather desolate, bargain driven wastelands.
Mon, 14 Mar 11
Duration:
29 mins
Food writer Tim Hayward goes in search of British charcuterie - the preserved meat that we tend to think of as Contintental. He meets a couple whose hobby smoking meats has turned into a career; a shopkeeper, a publican and a restaurateur who cure hams and salamis on the premises for customers, and a pig farming family who have taken to curing their own pork. He learns about the British traditions of salting and pickling meats and talks to author Lindy Wildsmith about how we can do it at home - and even has a go at making his own bacon.
Mon, 7 Mar 11
Duration:
28 mins
Simon Parkes reports from Japan on new ideas being developed for the future of the nation's food supplies.
Mon, 28 Feb 11
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon investigates the role malt plays in our drinks and diet. Malt is a natural ingredient in many but many people won't realise how ubiquitous it is as well as it being an important export for the country. Sheila talks to a distiller, a baker and a brewer about malt's remarkable properties and visits a traditional maltster to find out how malt is made.
Wed, 23 Feb 11
Duration:
28 mins
Food and the coalition. How does the government intend to change the way Britain eats? Sheila Dillon interviews Health Secretary Andrew Lansley.
Mon, 14 Feb 11
Duration:
29 mins
Filtered, skimmed, standardised, homogenised - Sheila Dillon explores the changing face of milk.
Mon, 7 Feb 11
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon explores the past present and future of cooking and food preparation in the school curriculum. She learns how it was introduced in the 1800s to educate girls for domestic service and is now part of the design and technology syllabus. Sheila looks at two approaches to food education in a primary and a secondary school and hears from interested parties the reasons for making cooking compulsory at secondary level.
Mon, 31 Jan 11
Duration:
25 mins
Dan Saladino reports on the impact of Ireland's economic collapse on food and farming.
Mon, 24 Jan 11
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon investigates the appeal of shellfish - bivalves and molluscs - from the point of view of taste and sustainability and asks why we don't eat them more in Britain. Chef Mark Hix shows what can be done with the lesser used varieties like whelks and razor clams.
Mon, 17 Jan 11
Duration:
29 mins
Michelin starred chef Angela Hartnett cooks up a hearty winters meal for Sheila Dillon using bread, cream and preserves from finalists and winners of the Food and Farming Awards.
Mon, 10 Jan 11
Duration:
29 mins
Sheila Dillon, with the help of some famous food lovers (including Giorgio Locatelli, Cyrus Todiwala, Fuchsia Dunlop and Bee Wilson) hears about their favourite kitchen gadgets. From a 300 year clockwork roasting spit to a 21st century thermal blender, what are the must-have qualities of these kitchen necessities? And how do you choose from the ever increasing plethora of expensive all-singing-all-dancing gizmos on sale in large kitchenware departments.
Mon, 3 Jan 11
Duration:
29 mins
Sheila Dillon traces the legacy of Elizabeth David's more scholarly work and reviews food writing in 2010 with blogger and critic Tim Hayward, photographer Jason Lowe and publisher Anne Dolamore. We hear from Elizabeth David's literary Executor Jill Norman about the shift in her work from recipe-driven writing in her early career to the later, more academic books and debate who has taken on her legacy of more scholarly food writing today.
Sat, 25 Dec 10
Duration:
58 mins
Sheila Dillon presents an extended edition of The BBC Food & Farming Awards 2010.
Mon, 20 Dec 10
Duration:
29 mins
Panettone and Yule logs - Sheila Dillon embraces our new Christmas culinary traditions, not so new as you might imagine.
Fri, 17 Dec 10
Duration:
28 mins
Danish chef Rene Redzepi, famed for foraging ingredients, travels to Lapland in search of undiscovered flavours.
Mon, 13 Dec 10
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon explores the varieties of venison - wild and farmed - we can now find in butchers and supermarkets in the UK. She joins a stalker in Berkshire and talks to the biggest game dealer in the country.
Mon, 6 Dec 10
Duration:
28 mins
From Caribbean to Thai and Vietnamese - Simon Parkes looks at the latest trends in British street food and takeaway meals. And we hear from some of the finalists in the BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards.
Mon, 29 Nov 10
Duration:
29 mins
A cider maker, a brewer and a distiller: who will be the 2010 Best Drinks Producer for the Food and Farming Awards? Sheila Dillon, Oz Clarke, Mark Hix and Charles Campion find out.
Fri, 26 Nov 10
Duration:
43 mins
Sheila Dillon reveals the winners of this year’s BBC Food & Farming Awards, ending a long search for excellence.
Thu, 25 Nov 10
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon looks at new ideas for using food to save the British pub.
Mon, 15 Nov 10
Duration:
29 mins
Supermarket price wars have halved the cost of one of Britain’s best loved fruits – the banana. What impact does this have on workers at the other end of the supply chain?
Mon, 8 Nov 10
Duration:
29 mins
Sheila Dillon meets the people working to save some of the world's endangered food cultures.
Mon, 1 Nov 10
Duration:
29 mins
Is it feasible to regulate to make all the food bought by public bodies sustainable and healthy? Simon Parkes visits Nottinghamshire to find out.
Mon, 25 Oct 10
Duration:
28 mins
What food do students have access to, what do they eat? Sheila Dillon investigates the catering provided for students across the country in these financially straightened times. She talks to industry expert Chris Druce about the big catering companies and their expansion into higher education. She visits a food co-op at the School of African and Oriental Studies; Dan Saladino visits Plymouth University on the day it hosts its first farmers market and talks to stall holders, students, and Slow Food UK about its efforts to enroll students in its philosophy and approach to food. And Professor Warren Belasco from the University of Maryland describes how there's nothing new about student activism around food - think 60s, the University of California at Berkeley, the counter culture.
Mon, 18 Oct 10
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon hears from the people attempting to revolutionise the sandwich. We're now seeing the rise of food businesses specialising in just one type of sandwich using authentic recipes from around the world. The food entrepreneurs are making everything from the Vietnamese Bahn Mi through to the Argentinean Lomito, all are sandwiches which rely on the makers finding authentic bread to match the original recipe. This development is being watched closely by the large sandwich manufacturers supplying the supermarkets. The prepared sandwich business is with £3bn a year and is based on developing new ideas. Dan Saladino follows some sandwiches through the supply chain.
Mon, 11 Oct 10
Duration:
29 mins
Ribston Pippin, Wass and Flower of the Town - native apples from Yorkshire, not famed for its apples, but home to many unique varieties now being planted again in restored orchards. Simon Parkes visits Helmsley, Husthwaite and Ampleforth orchards.
Mon, 4 Oct 10
Duration:
28 mins
Sheila Dillon investigates airline food. Producers from the North East - Beckleberry's and Tanfield Foods - explain how they came to start supplying the airlines. And there's a visit to Gate Gourmet, the world's largest independent airline caterer. In the studio are travel writer Simon Calder and Ian Rutter who has worked in airline food for many years.
Mon, 27 Sep 10
Duration:
29 mins
Sheila Dillon explores the pasta business and frenzied competition for the main ingredient, durum wheat.
Mon, 20 Sep 10
Duration:
29 mins
Sheila Dillon looks at Northern Ireland's new strategy to put good food, and the small producers who make it, at the forefront of the region's economic growth.
Mon, 13 Sep 10
Duration:
29 mins
This remarkable billion pound market in the UK defies every recession. How so?
Tue, 7 Sep 10
Duration:
28 mins
The chef Mark Hix explores the food of Transylvania.
Tue, 7 Sep 10
Duration:
28 mins
Richard Johnson sets out to rescue the reputation of the kebab.
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