Investigating every aspect of the food we eat @BBCRadio4 Presenters: @SheilaDillon @dansaladinouk @jaegawise @leylakazim 📧 thefoodprogramme@bbc.co.uk
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7 Apr 2024
Looking for us? The Food Programme has moved to 11am Friday and repeated 10.15pm Saturday on @BBCRadio4 with a longer duration of 42 minutes.
You can always find us on @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b006q…
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The nominations for the BBC Food & Farming Awards are now open! You have until 12 midday 15 June. Go to bbc.co.uk/foodawards where you can also find our full terms and privacy notice #bbcfoodawards
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18 Nov 2025
Tonight is the night #bbcfoodawards 2025 coming to you from #Bristol! Lush. Head to @bbcfoodprog on Instagram stories to see the winners announced live! instagram.com/bbcfoodprog
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25 Jul 2025
Protestors deliver a huge pie of wishes to Downing Street, calling for change in UK food policy. In today’s prog (11am Radio4) Sheila Dillon investigates the influence of big food companies, and hears what campaigners are doing to fight back..
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18 Jul 2025
Ever been to a food forest? What a joy to meet Martin Crawford for this week's episode of @bbcfoodprog with @leylakazim who showed us around his in Devon. It was full of delicious and surprising edible treats! Listen again here bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fwj… 📻🌳🍎
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3 Jul 2025
Tomorrow we have Poppy O'Toole guest presenting! you'll never guess what her specialist subject is.. join us this Friday at 11am on @bbcradio4 or anytime on @BBCSounds
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13 Jun 2025
Today we’re talking evolution, fat and the brain with a scientist who’s long stirred debate: Professor Michael Crawford. In his ‘Life Through Food’ @SheilaDillon hears how his often dismissed research has changed the way we think about food. On @bbcradio4 at 11am. 🐟
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10 May 2025
A fantastic item on @BBCRadio4's @BBCFoodProg on school dinners featuring our own @FoodMuseumUK's excellent School Dinners exhibition. Also check out the amazing work happening at Greenside primary school in Shepherd's Bush. @SheilaDillon @ElliotSchools bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002bv…
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9 May 2025
Today's episode of Radio 4's @BBCFoodProg
features our @ESRC-funded research on the past, present & future of school meals incl. an interview with @HeatherLWEllis. Also explores the new exhibition with @FoodMuseumUK! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002bv3…
@ShefUniImpact @SheffSocScience
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21 Apr 2025
.@SheilaDillon ladling handmade soft cheese, inspired by a Tudor recipe, at @CourtyardDairy in Yorkshire. What bearing does a newly transcribed pamphlet of cheese have on cheese-making today? New episode out now, on history and health benefits 📻 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029z…
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4 Apr 2025
How much organic food do you buy? In Denmark they eat a whole lot more than us.. why? @SheilaDillon has been to Copenhagen finding out what’s driving the market there and hearing how the push for more plant-based eating could change that. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0029hv…
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27 Mar 2025
Burnt burgers begone! This week @Jimfam investigates the improving state of food at football matches. He's at @AFCWimbledon to sample samosas & souvlaki. There's a nod to liquor @leytonorientfc and a trip to the all-vegan Forest Green. Big thanks to @d_gray_writer & @jacknpeat
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21 Mar 2025
As fragile infrastructure shuts Heathrow down, what does it also reveal about UK food resilience in the face of future crisis? @DanSaladinoUK looks at prepping in Sweden, our dependence on a small network of warehouses & why beans means resilience bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00290…
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28 Feb 2025
A 3am wake-up call to join the meat traders of Smithfield Market for this week's prog. The @cityoflondon is closing both Smithfield and the Billingsgate fish market so what will it mean for our food security? Feat. @Aliciajweston @drmatthewgreen @carolynsteel @ProfTimLang🥩🐟📻
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31 Jan 2025
As Dry January comes to a close @jaegawise looks at the UK's booming alcohol-free drinks sector with help from @joinclubsoda @kaminsight @WiperAndTrue @BrisBeerFactory @LuckySaintBeer @threespirit_
All at bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027d… 🍺🍸🍷📻
ALT Michael Wiper and Marvin Lindner from @wiperandtrue with @jaegawise
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29 Jan 2025
Latest edition: @DanSaladinoUK tries to solve a puzzle. Chef Mike Keen has been in the Arctic sometimes kayaking 1000s of miles, sometimes not. The story he tells Dan raises big QNs about diet, exercise & health @DoctorChrisVT @mradjenkinson1 Listen: bbc.in/3CFFmS2
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10 Jan 2025
Robots delivering plates? Supermarkets using AI to predict what we'll eat? This week's episode with @jaegawise on @bbcradio4 looks at how tech is changing the way we eat. With thanks to @traceyfutures @hwallop @willtorrent @ItsBigZuu @TastewiseAI @pronouncedhare & Cosmo🤖📻
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10 Jan 2025
From almost zero to 3,000 food banks in 20 years - how did we get here? Powerful stories from our neighbours @brisnwfoodbank feature in this eye-opening @BBCFoodProg episode exploring Britain's growing reliance on emergency food support 🎧
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3 Jan 2025
Today at 11am on @bbcradio4 @jaegawise looks at the story of the food bank. There were barely any in 2000 but they number almost three thousand today. Among the guests is the ex-PM @GordonBrown who is behind a new initiative called the Multibank.
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