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Last broadcast on Mon, 28 Sep 2009, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Sheila Dillon travels to Italy to meet producers of rare and unusual cheeses from around the world.
Cheese! a bi-ennial event, organised by Slow Food, is aimed at keeping traditional raw milk cheese making alive.
Among the hundreds of cheese producers who travelled to the northern Italian town of Bra were three farmers still making artisan Somerset Cheddar. It is a cheese which is still made using raw milk, with a traditional starter and is crafted by hand and matured in lard soaked muslin.
As Sheila finds out the Somerset Cheddar makers have travelled to Bra in a bid to rescue the name of Cheddar from the world of industrial block cheeses now produced all over the world.
Cheese! a bi-ennial event, organised by the Slow Food movement.
Hundreds of cheese producers travel to Bra, Northern Italy.
Cheese arriving in Bra.
Sheila with cheese event organiser Alberto Farinasso.
One of the Italian Presidia cheeses (a cheese coated in walnuts).
Shops in Bra joining in the 'cheese' spirit.
Sheila with Carlo Petrini - founder of the Slow Food movement.
Broadcasts
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Sun 27 Sep 200912:32
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Mon 28 Sep 200916:00
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