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The Food Programme Episodes

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    Jamie Oliver: A Life Through Food Part II

    Jamie Oliver talks to Sheila Dillon on the 20th anniversary of 'The Naked Chef' Part II

  2. Jamie Oliver: A Life Through Food Part I

    Jamie Oliver talks to Sheila Dillon on the 20th anniversary of 'The Naked Chef' Part I

  3. Why did the chicken cross the road? How food became more than a comedy punchline

    Comedian George Egg considers how food became more than comedy's slapstick sidekick.

  4. The Search for Esiah's Seeds

    Dan Saladino tells the story of food grower Esiah Levy who shared seeds and changed lives.

  5. The BarbeQ'n'A

    Sheila joins a group of grilling gurus to address listeners’ barbecue queries

  6. Good Enough for Granny: What's so special about the food our grandmothers cook?

    Sheila Dillon meets grannies and grandchildren whose family dishes stand the test of time.

  7. 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.

  8. Playing with Food: The world of video game gastronomy

    Dan Saladino discovers what we can learn about food - from playing video games.

  9. Can Anyone Learn To Cook? - A Life Through Food with Samin Nosrat

    Netflix chef Samin Nosrat shares her life through food with Sheila Dillon.

  10. 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

  11. The BBC Food & Farming Awards 2019: Second Course

    The winners of the BBC Food & Farming Awards 2019 are revealed in Bristol. Part II

  12. The Food & Farming Awards 2019: First Course

    The winners of the BBC Food & Farming Awards 2019 are revealed in Bristol - Part I

  13. Ten Good Things

    Dan Saladino selects ten of the remaining food and drink ideas from the 2019 Foods Awards.

  14. Faith, Fasting and Feasting – A Ramadan Special

    Yasmin Khan and comedian Tez Ilyas talk food and fasting in Ramadan 2019

  15. An Education: Life lessons through food

    How food education can deliver much more than just practical skills

  16. 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?

  17. What makes an excellent food producer?

    Angela Hartnett meets finalists for Best Food Producer in the BBC Food & Farming Awards 19

  18. Feeding the High Street: Are food shops the answer?

    Sheila Dillon talks to John Timpson about the future of our high streets.

  19. How reassuring are food assurance labels?

    Sheila Dillon considers the role of food assurance schemes in the UK today.

  20. 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

  21. 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.

  22. Tipping Point: Time to Rethink the Service Charge?

    Could tipping be too slapdash and subjective for an ever more calculated modern world?

  23. Life of Pie

    Sheila Dillon hears the stories of pies and the people whose lives were changed by them.

  24. Would you let a robot cook you dinner?

    Robot chefs are working in burger joints and pizzerias. Will they be in our homes next?

  25. Delicious and Endangered: The Story of Bluefin Tuna

    Dan Saladino travels from Brixham to Tokyo in search of the endangered bluefin tuna.

  26. 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.

  27. 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. The Secret Life of Spaghetti

    Dan Saladino looks at our long and tangled relationship with a much-loved food, spaghetti.

  29. Should I boycott palm oil?

    Sheila Dillon asks whether we should avoid buying foods containing palm oil.

  30. Curry house crisis... where are the women?

    Sheila Dillon asks whey there aren't more women chefs in our South Asian restaurants.

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