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Comfort food for dark days

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

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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
Cooking with Paula McIntyre
Pork Souvlaki
With potato flat bread and kebab shop sauce
6 mins
Shropshire's Sunday Kitchen with Paul Shuttleworth
14/07/2019
Paul meets the county's chefs and food producers to talk all things food and drink.
60 mins
Nick Coffer's Weekend Kitchen
Gin, tonic and lime cake, pork and fennel pasta and Vietnamese turmeric fish
Celebrating the best food and drink from Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
120 mins
The Curry Show
15/07/2019
The Tarmo sisters and guests explore local cuisine in a radio show dedicated to curry.
120 mins
Eat with Your Ears
15/07/2019
Two of Britain's best up-and-coming chefs bring you flavour from their restaurant kitchen.
60 mins

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