A Wild Mushroom Chase
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Sheila Dillon goes foraging for wild mushrooms in the Peak District in Derbyshire to find out what common fungi are easy to find - and delicious to eat. She hears from expert foragers, mushroom buyers and fungi fanatics about how the supply chain for this wild food works, from the forest floors of Eastern Europe to China's vast mushroom drying warehouses, as well as the lucrative, and sometimes dubious, trade of some of the most valuable mushrooms. Produced by Nina Pullman.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. |
| 0:12.7 | But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes, |
| 0:18.2 | The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and comedy specials |
| 0:22.2 | from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle and Rommas Ranganaethan. |
| 0:25.9 | However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncoaked. |
| 0:30.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.7 | All right. |
| 0:38.7 | It's beginning our mushroom foray on a tarmac road. |
| 0:42.3 | Ahead of us, fields. |
| 0:43.6 | Are we going to find mushrooms in fields, Brent? |
| 0:46.3 | We have a good chance to find wax caps. |
| 0:50.3 | They thrive in Derbyshire fields, grazed fields. |
| 0:55.0 | In fact, some of the mushrooms that grow in symbiosis with trees, |
| 1:00.0 | you also find in fields, but there has to be a tree nearby. |
| 1:03.0 | So this field is great because there's a woodland that's at the side of it. |
| 1:08.0 | So you find field mushrooms and wooden mushrooms. |
| 1:11.7 | Welcome to the food program with me, Sheila Dillon. And welcome also to the dramatic wildness |
| 1:18.2 | of Derbyshire's Peak District. So tell us where we are. You're the Derbyshire girl, Deb. |
| 1:25.1 | We've just come out of Bonebridge Carpac in Hayfield and we are on the lower slopes |
| 1:31.3 | of Kinder, Kinder Scout, which is the start of the Penang Way actually. This is the route that we take our |
| 1:38.2 | public forays on and we had two kids with us on Sunday and they've got eagle eyes, they spot everything |
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