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Investigating every aspect of the food we eat @BBCRadio4 Presenters: @SheilaDillon @dansaladinouk @jaegawise @leylakazim 📧 [email protected]
Bristol, England
Joined November 2011
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
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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 📻🌳🍎
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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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You can also listen via @bbcsounds
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Sheila Dillon meets Prof Michael Crawford, whose life’s work links seafood to brain health
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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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RT @cllr_tim: A fantastic item on @BBCRadio4's @BBCFoodProg on school dinners featuring our own @FoodMuseumUK's excellent School Dinners ex….
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Sheila Dillon investigates how school food has evolved and how it inspires what we eat now
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RT @ESRCSchoolMeals: Today's episode of Radio 4's @BBCFoodProg .features our @ESRC-funded research on the past, present & future of school….
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Sheila Dillon investigates how school food has evolved and how it inspires what we eat now
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.@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 📻
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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.
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Sheila Dillon explores Denmark's moves towards organic and plant-based eating.
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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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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
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Five years after the first lockdown Dan Saladino asks if food systems are better prepared.
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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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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 🍺🍸🍷📻
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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:
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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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RT @nbsgfoodbank: From almost zero to 3,000 food banks in 20+ years - how did we get here? Powerful stories from our neighbours @brisnwfood….
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Jaega Wise investigates the rise of the food bank in the UK and interviews Gordon Brown.
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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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Illustrator John Leech created this image for A Christmas Carol in 1843. It features a food detail that explains why, for Charles Dickens, one of the highlights (& best cakes) of the festivities was yet to come. Join @DanSaladinoUK Ivan Day & @PenVogler .
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RT @SheilaDillon: All the thrills, the moving moments, the sheer fascinatingness of our winners (& those on shortlists who are also really….
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To hear more about all of the winners and our brilliant finalists listen in tomorrow (Friday) at 11am on @BBCRadio4.
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The Derek Cooper Award was given to Anna Taylor from @Food_Foundation. The award is given each year to an individual or organisation whose work has brought about real change in our relationship with food. It was presented by #bbcfoodawards head judge @HughFW and @SheilaDillon
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