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The Food Programme

The Vegetable Yoda: Charlie Hicks

Sheila Dillon and Dan Saladino pay tribute to greengrocer extraordinaire Charlie Hicks.

30 mins

The Food Programme

Comfort food for dark days

Sheila Dillon celebrates the power of food to comfort us in hard times.

30 mins

The Food Programme

Eat to Run, Part 3

Dan Saladino meets the runners convinced low or no carbs is the way to peak performance.

30 mins

The Food Programme

The Big Pig Roadtrip

Tim Hayward travels the UK to meet the people who champion rare breeds of British pigs.

30 mins

The Food Programme

African Food

Food writer Zoe Adjonyoh wants you to think again about saying 'African food'.

30 mins

The Food Programme

The Future of Bread

Dan Saladino and Nathan Myhrvold discuss one of the biggest bread projects ever undertaken

30 mins

The Food Programme

Doctor's Orders: Getting Tomorrow's Medics Cooking

Meet the medical students and doctors who want more training on diet and nutrition.

30 mins

The Food Programme

The Power of Food: Parabere Forum

Dan Saladino reports from the Parabere Forum, with five life-changing food stories.

30 mins

The Food Programme

The Sugar Tax: A (Short) History

Dan Saladino looks behind the headlines of the newly introduced sugar tax.

30 mins

The Food Programme

Northern Ireland: Food at a Crossroads

Sheila Dillon explores food from the border to Belfast in a country on the brink of Brexit

30 mins

The Food Programme

Is There a Place for Salt?

Sheila Dillon asks if there is a place for salt in our cooking and if all salts are equal.

30 mins

The Food Programme

The BBC Food & Farming Awards 2018: Finalist stories

From Belfast via Barrow-in-Furness to Brighton. Sheila Dillon meets our 2018 finalists.

30 mins

The Food Programme

Jollof Rice

Tayo Popoola introduces Sheila Dillon to a controversial bowl of rice.

30 mins

The Food Programme

Japanese Whisky: A Beginners Guide

Dan Saladino on how Japanese distillers managed to make some of the world's best whisky.

30 mins

The Food Programme

Food Stories From Syria (3)

Sheila Dillon shares food with people who have fled the war in Syria.

30 mins

The Food Programme

Life-changing Food

Sheila Dillon explores how food is used around the country to transform lives.

30 mins

The Food Programme

The Mothership of Brewing: Beer and the Belgians

Dan Saladino and drinks writer Pete Brown find out why Belgium beer is so influential.

30 mins

The Food Programme

Street Food 2018

Nigel Barden investigates the rapidly evolving world of street food in 2018.

30 mins

The Food Programme

BBC Food and Farming Awards 2018: First Course

Chefs, cooks and food writers gather to celebrate unsung food heroes.

24 mins

The Food Programme

BBC Food and Farming Awards 2018: Second Course

Sheila Dillon presents the stories behind this year's Food and Farming Awards

27 mins

The Food Programme

What's Eating The Restaurant Trade?

A panel discussion about the future of restaurants presented by Grace Dent.

30 mins

The Food Programme

The Eatwell Guide

Sheila Dillon looks at the Eatwell Plate.

30 mins

The Food Programme

Unedited: Sheila Dillon's interview with Prof. Louis Levy of Public Health England

Sheila Dillon's interview with Prof Louis Levy of Public Health England

16 mins

The Food Programme

Cycling and Food: Fuelling the Peloton

Behind the scenes at the world's biggest cycling events, the race is on in the kitchen.

30 mins

The Food Programme

Birmingham's Beloved Balti

Yasmin Khan charts the rise and fall of Birmingham's British-Pakistani Balti Triangle.

30 mins

The Food Programme

Richard Corrigan: A Life Through Food

A rare voice of authenticity from the kitchen and one of our most important chefs.

30 mins

The Food Programme

Music and Food: Sounds Delicious!

Dan Saladino speaks to chefs and scientists about the relationship between tunes and taste

30 mins

The Food Programme

Keep It Sticky: The Extraordinary Story of Chef Marcus Samuelsson.

Harlem chef Marcus Samuelsson tells his food story, from Ethiopia and Sweden to New York.

28 mins

The Food Programme

Shetland - A Food Homecoming

Sheila Dillon travels to Shetland.

30 mins

The Food Programme

There's More to Mangoes

Sheila Dillon looks at how convenience mangoes have kept us from their true exotic flavour

30 mins

The Food Programme

Seeds: a 400-million-year-old food story

Dan Saladino and Polly Russell share seed stories from this year's Oxford Food Symposium.

30 mins

The Food Programme

Label This!

Sheila Dillon investigates food labelling; what's on, what's not, and how we got here.

30 mins

The Food Programme

The carnivore's guide to meat and fire

Tim Hayward on the very latest in meat and fire.

30 mins

The Food Programme

Rowley Leigh: A Life Through Food

Rowley Leigh, 'godfather' of modern British cooking, tells his food story to Dan Saladino.

28 mins

The Food Programme

Stories for a harvest moon

Stories of harvest from around the UK to celebrate the autumn equinox.

30 mins

The Food Programme

The Meat-Free Meat Movement

Meat-free meat is on the up, but what is it? Vegan cook Rachel Ama investigates

24 mins

The Food Programme

How to Feed a Fresher

It’s freshers' week, and The Food Programme wants to know what students are eating!

28 mins

The Food Programme

The C Word

A brewer's guide to modern cider.

28 mins

The Food Programme

A Vintage Year for Homegrown Wine

Susie Barrie joins the harvest at the end of a landmark growing season for homegrown wine.

24 mins

The Food Programme

May Contain Nuts

Bee Wilson asks whether food labelling needs to change to protect allergy sufferers.

24 mins

The Food Programme

How Instagram changed food

How Instagram changed food.

24 mins

The Food Programme

Cambodia's Forgotten Food

Genevieve Taylor tells the story of the forgotten Cambodian food being rediscovered today.

24 mins

The Food Programme

The Big Carb Debate

Carbohydrates - friend or foe?

28 mins

The Food Programme

The Food and Medicine Debate

Sheila Dillon and a group of food, diet and medical experts discuss food and lifestyle.

28 mins

The Food Programme

Cookbooks of 2018

Sheila Dillon, Chetna Makan, Tom Tivnan and Kate Young discuss the cookbooks of 2018.

28 mins

The Food Programme

Sweet Chestnuts

Rachel Roddy and Sheila Dillon share their love of sweet chestnuts.

28 mins

The Food Programme

The Changing World of Chocolate

Charlotte Smith puts down her Kit Kat to ask what the future holds for chocolate

28 mins

The Food Programme

Nigella Lawson: A Life Through Food

You're invited to dinner with Nigella as she shares the memories and flavours of her life.

28 mins

The Food Programme

Weak, small and free: How no and low alcohol is finding power without strength

The story of the drinks going from strength to low strength and shaking up pubs and bars

24 mins

The Food Programme

Dog's Dinner

Posh nosh for pooches is becoming big business - but is it in our dogs' best interests?

24 mins

The Food Programme

Feeding the Falklands

Gerard Baker finds out how Falkland Islanders meet the challenge of eating a varied diet.

28 mins

The Food Programme

The one where we talk about deep fried Mars Bars

Food writer Rachel McCormack explores deep fried cuisine throughout Europe

28 mins

The Food Programme

What does a no-deal Brexit mean for our food?

From 'preppers' to big brands, Dan Saladino gathers thoughts on a no-deal Brexit and food.

28 mins

The Food Programme

Who are the new generation shaking up the food system?

Voices for change in the food system from across the UK launch a search for new talent.

28 mins

The Food Programme

Curry house crisis... where are the women?

Sheila Dillon asks whey there aren't more women chefs in our South Asian restaurants.

28 mins

The Food Programme

Should I boycott palm oil?

Sheila Dillon asks whether we should avoid buying foods containing palm oil.

28 mins

The Food Programme

The Secret Life of Spaghetti

Dan Saladino looks at our long and tangled relationship with a much-loved food, spaghetti.

28 mins

The Food Programme

Why is CBD on everyone's lips?

The story of how cannabis without the high has become one of the biggest buzzwords in food

28 mins

The Food Programme

A different kind of S.W.A.T team

Chef Romy Gill joins a 1000-strong army of volunteers serving food to people in need.

28 mins

The Food Programme

Delicious and Endangered: The Story of Bluefin Tuna

Dan Saladino travels from Brixham to Tokyo in search of the endangered bluefin tuna.

28 mins

The Food Programme

Would you let a robot cook you dinner?

Robot chefs are working in burger joints and pizzerias. Will they be in our homes next?

28 mins

The Food Programme

Life of Pie

Sheila Dillon hears the stories of pies and the people whose lives were changed by them.

28 mins

The Food Programme

Tipping Point: Time to Rethink the Service Charge?

Could tipping be too slapdash and subjective for an ever more calculated modern world?

24 mins

The Food Programme

How to Start a Food Revolution: The Food Adventures of Claus Meyer

Can you reinvent a food culture? Dan Saladino meets a man who did, Denmark's Claus Meyer.

24 mins

The Food Programme

Top Banana: The Future of the World's Most Popular Fruit

Dan Saladino meets the scientists working on the future of a truly global food, the banana

28 mins

The Food Programme

How reassuring are food assurance labels?

Sheila Dillon considers the role of food assurance schemes in the UK today.

28 mins

The Food Programme

Feeding the High Street: Are food shops the answer?

Sheila Dillon talks to John Timpson about the future of our high streets.

28 mins

The Food Programme

What makes an excellent food producer?

Angela Hartnett meets finalists for Best Food Producer in the BBC Food & Farming Awards 19

28 mins

The Food Programme

Stranded! How to eat on a desert island.

Dan Saladino is on a beach for a Robinson Crusoe experience. Can he survive on wild food?

28 mins

The Food Programme

An Education: Life lessons through food

How food education can deliver much more than just practical skills

28 mins

The Food Programme

Faith, Fasting and Feasting – A Ramadan Special

Yasmin Khan and comedian Tez Ilyas talk food and fasting in Ramadan 2019

28 mins

The Food Programme

Ten Good Things

Dan Saladino selects ten of the remaining food and drink ideas from the 2019 Foods Awards.

28 mins

The Food Programme

The Food & Farming Awards 2019: First Course

The winners of the BBC Food & Farming Awards 2019 are revealed in Bristol - Part I

24 mins

The Food Programme

The BBC Food & Farming Awards 2019: Second Course

The winners of the BBC Food & Farming Awards 2019 are revealed in Bristol. Part II

28 mins

The Food Programme

Baking in the Nordics: The Bread Adventures of Chef Magnus Nilsson

One of the world's great chefs, Magnus Nilsson, takes Dan Saladino on a Nordic baking tour

28 mins

The Food Programme

Can Anyone Learn To Cook? - A Life Through Food with Samin Nosrat

Netflix chef Samin Nosrat shares her life through food with Sheila Dillon.

28 mins

The Food Programme

Playing with Food: The world of video game gastronomy

Dan Saladino discovers what we can learn about food - from playing video games.

28 mins

The Food Programme

Is There A Perfect Diet Just For You? The Future of Personalised Nutrition

Dan Saladino takes part in a gruelling food study aimed at predicting his optimum diet.

28 mins

Grow It

Fruit trees, courgettes and foraging on the banks of the River Tay

We’re at Spittalfield in Perthshire to get advice on picking and pruning your fruit tree.

28 mins

The Documentary Podcast

Bitter brew

The harrowing story of rape, murder and violence on a Kenyan tea plantation

26 mins

The Takeaway

Thrifty Cooking, Bread and Farm to Fork

Food, drink and recipes from Stoke, Staffordshire and Cheshire with Michelle Daniel.

120 mins

The Kitchen Cabinet

Series 25

Southend-On-Sea

Jay Rayner and his culinary panel are in Southend-On-Sea.

35 mins

Cooking with Paula McIntyre

Fried Potato and Corn Taco

Paula does some Mexican influenced cooking.

6 mins