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The Food Programme

Are We Prepared? Could the UK Feed Itself in a Crisis?

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4943 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Five years on from the first Covid lockdown Dan Saladino asks if our food supply can withstand more shock to the system? Is there resilience to face another pandemic or even war?

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

Transcript

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1:29.0

Our world is feeling more unstable, a less predictable place. And so there are people preparing

1:36.8

for crisis and shocks to food supplies. So let's take a look in the pantry and see what we have here. Cans, everything from

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