What Happened Next?
Leyla Kazim revisits some of The Food Programme's most memorable stories to ask: what happened next? From 500kg of eels stranded in a holdin...
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20 of 835 episodesInside the Chocolate Crisis
Soaring cacao prices broke all records and then they crashed. Dan Saladino explores the fallout, the impact on farmers, their communities, i...
How Pistachios Took Over
They’re in your chocolate, your gelato, even your coffee - pistachios seem to be everywhere at the moment - bolstered by the craze for Dubai...
Howzat? The Story of the Cricket Tea
Chef and broadcaster Romy Gill heads to the pavilion to explore cricket's relationship with food. She discovers that the supposedly British...
The Weight of the World
Why did obesity become a global problem? Professor of Diet and Population Health Susan Jebb explores a heavy history, our changing relations...
Could Food Do More in Cancer Care and Prevention?
Fifteen years after her cancer diagnosis, Sheila Dillon asks what role food could play in cancer treatment, prevention and recovery - and wh...
Food on the Move
Sheila Dillon heads out on the highway to investigate the world of food at motorway service stations. Historically they have been a place vi...
Inside England’s School Food Shake‑Up
Sheila Dillon looks at the plans to overhaul England’s school food standards, from cutting back on fried food, puddings and processed meat t...
The Price of Food
The food industry is predicting double digit inflation and are calling on the Government to act. Dan Saladino asks what lies behind the gloo...
The BBC Food & Farming Awards 2026 Launch: Belfast here we come
The BBC Food & Farming Awards come from Belfast this year. Jaega Wise heads to the Balmoral Show, the largest agri-food show in Northern Ire...
The future of our fruit and veg
Sheila Dillon visits fruit and veg growers across the country to ask what should the government put in its landmark plan to grow more in the...
K-Food
Hallyu - the Korean Wave - is taking over. With dramas and films like Squid Game and K-Pop Demon Hunters topping the Netflix charts, K-beaut...
Food Stories of Roots and Roads
Dan Saladino reports from Parabere Forum, a gathering of food storytellers, featuring Olia Hercules on the Ukrainian cooks who inspired her,...
A Life Through Food: Matt Tebbutt
Jaega Wise meets chef and broadcaster Matt Tebbutt at home in South Wales, to discuss his "Life Through Food". Matt has been presenting Satu...
A Day in the Life of a Hospital Chef
Francesco Fiore is a chef and Catering Manager at Milton Keynes University Hospital, and over the last few years has made some remarkable ch...
About the Girls
Sheila Dillon discusses the rise of eating disorders among young women as part of Radio 4’s “About the Girls” series, which is hearing from...
Generation Z
Generation Z, young adults aged roughly 18 to 30, are coming of age in a world defined by uncertainty. With difficult job and housing market...
Consider the Eel: Part 2
Dan Saladino follows up the debate on if the eel should be off the menu. Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.
Is Food Processing the ‘Missing Middle’?
Much focus goes on food growing and selling, but is the missing link in increasing the UK's food self sufficiency actually food processing?...
Posh Water
Should we be taking water more seriously? The emergence of the water sommelier would suggest so. Jaega Wise visits a Cheshire restaurant tha...