Mary Berry: A Life Through Food

Sheila Dillon meets baking guru, TV judge and home-cooking champion, Mary Berry

• 29 mins

What Is Making My Child Fat? Part 1: Finding Solutions to the UK’s Child Obesity Issue

Sheila Dillon speaks to children and young people seeking solutions to obesity in the UK.

• 28 mins

What Is Making My Child Fat? Part 2: The Debate and Your Questions.

Sheila Dillon puts your questions on child obesity related health to an expert panel.

• 29 mins

A Tale of Two Fish: Salmon, the wild and farmed

Dan Saladino investigates fears of wild Atlantic salmon's possible extinction in 20 years.

• 28 mins

Lights, Camera, Reaction: Life after Great British Bake Off with David Atherton

The Bake Off Winner talks fame, food and the freak outs of overnight celebrity.

• 28 mins

Is the Pasty Really Cornish?

Dr Polly Russell and Sheila Dillon talk to pasty makers from around the world.

• 28 mins

Covid-19: The Food Dimension.

Dan Saladino tracks the origins and impact of coronavirus within the food supply chain.

• 28 mins

Coronavirus and Food: Your Questions Answered

As government updates its plans for coronavirus, Dan Saladino answers your food questions.

• 28 mins

Eating After Cancer: Can rebuilding relationships with food help cancer patients with their recovery?

How cancer can impact our relationship with food - and why it's so important to rebuild it

• 28 mins

05/04/2020

Sheila Dillon explores cheerful, back-of-the-cupboard cuisine.

• 28 mins

Takeaway transformed: Inside the food delivery revolution

Stepping into a 'dark kitchen', Sheila Dillon sees how takeaway is changing food culture.

• 28 mins

Love In The Time Of Corona: Stories of community support through food

Sheila Dillon and Dan Saladino hear inspirational tales from those helping others via food

• 28 mins

Covid-19: The Food Waste Dimension.

Dan Saladino on how the crisis has resulted in vast amounts of food being lost and saved.

• 28 mins

Bonus Podcast: More from Sheffield's Pete McKee and Richard Hawley

Hear an extended cut of the interview from Sheffield: A Story of a City Through It's Food

• 20 mins

Sheffield: A story of a city through its food

The independent spirit of the early steel works is inspiring change in modern Sheffield

• 29 mins

The Kitchen Front: How wartime food strategies influenced our eating ethos

Following VE Day, Sheila Dillon considers the legacy of WWII food and farming practices

• 28 mins

Joe Wicks: A Life Through Food, through lockdown

Sheila Dillon and Joe Wicks talk PE, feeding family and his phenomenal rise to fame.

• 28 mins

Last Orders: Does coronavirus spell boom or bust for Britain’s drinks sector?

Is lockdown an opportunity as well as crisis, for alcoholic drinks vendors and producers?

• 28 mins

Why Eat Wild Meat?

Dan Saladino investigates the global trade in wild meat, from the legal to the illegal.

• 27 mins

How food on film is the secret ingredient to storytelling

Hear how food brings film to life and is inspiring cooks to make meals from the screen.

• 28 mins

Seed Stories from the Lockdown

Dan Saladino meets some of the people who turned to seeds and grew food in the lockdown.

• 38 mins

Why The Corner Shop Has Come Into Its Own

Sheila Dillon hears from the corner shops thriving since the Coronavirus lockdown.

• 28 mins

Rethink: The Food Dimension.

As part of the BBC Rethink series Dan Saladino looks at food post-Covid.

• 31 mins

Is it harder to make it in the food industry if you’re black?

Jaega Wise meets three people speaking out about inequality in the food world.

• 28 mins

Child Food Poverty: What next after the Government's U-turn on Free School Meals?

Dame Emma Thompson and teenagers from across the UK call for action on child food poverty.

• 28 mins

Food and Mood: how eating affects your mental health

Food and Mood: how eating affects your mental health

• 28 mins

Julian Metcalfe: A Life Through Food

The man behind Pret A Manger and itsu on the future of high-street food brands.

• 29 mins

Return of the Restaurant?

Sheila Dillon finds out how the restaurant sector is handling the move out of lockdown.

• 28 mins

How Consumers Saved Our Cheese

When UK cheese makers were faced with ruin in lockdown, consumers stepped in to save them.

• 28 mins

Food and the legacy of slavery

Jaega Wise and Dan Saladino investigate the hidden story of slavery in our food.

• 28 mins

Plate of the Nation

Discussing the future of UK food policy in light of the National Food Strategy

• 29 mins

Sitopia - a land with food at its centre

This special edition of The Food Programme comes from the year 2030.

• 29 mins

A different kind of S.W.A.T team: Food in Lockdown

Romy Gill and Sheila Dillon hear how volunteers provided free food to all during lockdown.

• 29 mins

The Ice Cream Van: A Celebration.

Dan Saladino and his dad Bobo (a former ice-cream man) talk about scoops, cones and 99s.

• 25 mins

Kitchen obsessives: Why aim to cook the perfect dish?

Leyla Kazim meets cooking obsessives Felicity Cloake, Bill Buford and Kate Ng.

• 28 mins

Wheat Revolutions

Dan Saladino on the story of wheat from the Neolithic Revolution to the Green Revolution.

• 28 mins

Taking the Biscuit: How a long-life ration became the quintessential British comfort food

Sheila Dillon considers how the humble biscuit's become a beloved British institution.

• 28 mins

English Pastoral: James Rebanks on the future of food.

Dan Saladino talks to shepherd James Rebanks about the future of food and farming.

• 28 mins

Faith, Fasts and Feasts: The role of food in Jewish celebration

Leyla Kazim explores the integral role of food in Judaism’s autumn festivals.

• 28 mins

Eat Your Way to Power: Food and Politics on the Campaign Trail

Sheila Dillon investigates the tricky world of eating on the campaign trail.

• 28 mins

Nadiya Hussain: A Life Through Food

Nadiya Hussain and Tan France speak to Leyla Kazim about Nadiya's life and career.

• 29 mins

University Challenge: How students and universities are managing meals during the pandemic

Sheila Dillon hears stories around freshers and food in the age of COVID

• 28 mins

Raymond Blanc: The Lost Orchard

Raymond Blanc spent decades growing an orchard. He explains to Dan Saladino why it matters

• 27 mins

What’s the deal with "chlorinated chicken"?

Charlotte Smith explores the implications of a future US trade deal on the UK food sector.

• 28 mins

Cookbooks of 2020

Sheila Dillon, Dan Saladino, Jaega Wise and Leyla Kazim discuss their books of the year

• 28 mins

The Secret Life of Chocolate. Part 1: Origins.

In the first of a two-part chocolate special, Dan Saladino explores the origins of cacao.

• 28 mins

The Secret Life of Chocolate. Part 2: The future.

In the second of a two-part chocolate special Sheila Dillon asks what the future holds.

• 29 mins

Christmas Cooking: The 2020 Edit

Nigel Slater, Genevieve Taylor & Tamal Ray share food ideas for a Christmas like no other.

• 29 mins

Loving the Leftovers

How cooking with leftovers can not only reduce waste, but also deliver incredible dishes

• 28 mins

Inside the World Food Programme

Dan Saladino tells the inside story of Nobel Peace Prize winners the World Food Programme.

• 28 mins

BrewDog: Punks grown up?

Jaega Wise explores world of craft beer giants, BrewDog

• 28 mins

What to Eat to Save the Planet?

Sheila Dillon and guests break down the latest on low carbon food production.

• 29 mins

All at Sea? Fishing after Brexit

Dan Saladino finds out what the Brexit deal means for the UK's fishing industry.

• 28 mins