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Medicinal mushrooms – magically good for our health?

Are mushrooms like Lion’s Mane, Shiitake, Chaga, and Turkey Tail really medicinal?

• 28 mins

The Global Food System: Too Big to Fix?

World leaders met in Rome to fix the food system. Dan Saladino finds out what happened.

• 28 mins

Wedding Food

The Food Programme celebrates wedding food and drink.

• 28 mins

A Food Museum – can it make us care about food?

How can the UK's new food museum tell the story of food, past, present and future?

• 28 mins

Festival Food

What does it take to feed a music festival?

• 28 mins

The Food Innovators: Radical Thinkers, Big Ideas.

Dan Saladino meets the finalists for this year's Food Innovation Award.

• 28 mins

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Food and Farming Awards: street food finalists

Street food, take-aways and small eateries, the finalists in ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Food & Farming Awards.

• 28 mins

Abergavenny at 25

Abergavenny Food Festival: 25 Years and Counting

• 28 mins

Local food – is it working?

To what extent is food localism working, and how is that helping smaller producers?

• 28 mins

Kombucha: A Miracle Drink?

Jaega Wise investigates the world of fermented tea.

• 28 mins

Eating Wild Part 2: Inside the Gut Microbiome

Dan Saladino finds out what happened to people who embarked on a wild food adventure.

• 28 mins

Prescribing Fruit and Veg – A New Model for the NHS?

How healthcare is being brought out of GP surgeries and into communities in south London.

• 28 mins

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Food and Farming Awards 2023: First Course

The winners of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Food and Farming Awards 2023 are announced.

• 29 mins

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Food and Farming Awards 2023: Second Course

Sheila Dillon presents more winners from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Food and Farming Awards 2023.

• 28 mins

Mezcal: A Beginners Guide

Dan Saladino explores the Mexican spirit mezcal and the diverse world of agave spirits.

• 28 mins

Older Men Learning to Cook

Jimi Famurewa talks to men who are learning or rediscovering cooking later in life.

• 28 mins

Food Under Siege in Gaza

Sheila Dillon looks at the war in Gaza through the lens of food.

• 28 mins

The food books of 2023

Sheila Dillon presents The Food Programme’s favourite food books of the year.

• 28 mins

Recipes for Long Life

Could research into centenarians living in Blue Zones help us live longer?

• 29 mins

Dark and stormy: A journey through rum

From its origins on slave plantations to new ways of making it from scratch in the UK.

• 28 mins

Reflections on rum

Jaega Wise chats to producer Nina Pullman on the making of the rum programme.

• 9 mins

Christmas with The Food Programme

Chef Thomasina Miers and Sheila Dillon on doing more with less at Christmas.

• 29 mins

New Year’s Eve Food Around the World

Join Leyla Kazim for a tour of New Year’s Eve food traditions around the world.

• 28 mins

A Seaweed Revolution in the UK?

Could seaweed farming be the answer to some of our biggest issues? Leyla Kazim finds out.

• 27 mins

Eating for Two?

Jaega Wise is on a mission to find out what she should really be eating while pregnant.

• 28 mins

Haggis and Hosting: Celebrating Burns Night

Sheila Dillon joins chef Julie Lin in Glasgow as she hosts friends for Burns Night 2024.

• 28 mins

How has a small island become the nation with the highest rate of obesity?

Sheila Dilllon explores what we can learn from Nauru, the world's most obese country

• 28 mins

Destination Food

Sheila Dillon explores what it means to travel to eat in a globalised world.

• 29 mins

Love on a Plate

Stories of food, love and romance with Jaega Wise.

• 28 mins

A Bitter Taste?

From cooking and growing to new health research, Leyla Kazim explores the world of bitter.

• 28 mins