podcast

The Food Programme

by BBC Radio 4

Going Cold Turkey: Alternative Christmas Dinners

19.12.2025 • 00:41:47

Annie Gray always rejects turkey and the trimmings at Christmas. She believes they are a construct of a bygone era and will often eat pizza on the big...

The Food Books of 2025

12.12.2025 • 00:42:27

Leyla Kazim takes a look at the best food books and writing from 2025, and chats to food writer Ruby Tandoh about her new book looking at why we eat t...

The Great Tartan Tea Swindle

05.12.2025 • 00:41:45

When Tam o’ Braan began marketing Scottish Tea from his Wee Tea Plantation, the response was astonishing. Upmarket retailers such as Fortnum and Maso...

And the Winner Is... The BBC Food And Farming Awards 2025

28.11.2025 • 00:41:47

The judges have reached their verdicts so who has won the coveted Food Programme chopping boards in 2025's BBC Food and Farming Awards? Sheila Dillon...

Why Is Africa Feeding Us?

21.11.2025 • 00:41:43

Dan Saladino and reporter Jack Thompson investigate the UK's growing dependence on two farms in northern Senegal based around a lake. In recent years ...

The Breakfast Club Challenge

14.11.2025 • 00:42:51

They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day - but what happens when thousands of children arrive at school too hungry to learn? In this p...

Eels and Elvers

07.11.2025 • 00:41:29

Dan Saladino looks at why eels numbers are plummeting and asks if the species can be saved. On the River Severn he meets the last of the glass eel fis...

Keeping It Local: A Suffolk Story

31.10.2025 • 00:42:07

It's twenty years since the Aldeburgh Food Festival began. Sheila Dillon examines its impact in this small Suffolk seaside town where food producers w...

Feeding Britain: Can Our Best Food Producers Deliver?

24.10.2025 • 00:42:21

Sheila Dillon and this year’s head judge of the BBC Food and Farming Awards, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, hit the road to meet the finalists in the Be...

The Food Innovators: 2025

17.10.2025 • 00:41:35

Dan Saladino meets people behind pioneering projects rethinking the future of chocolate, seafood and food forests. Which one will win this year's BBC ...