BBC Food & Farming Awards: Meet the Finalists
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A special edition introducing the producers, farmers and cooks who have made it through to the final stage of 2014's BBC Food & Farming Awards, featuring judges Charles Campion and Richard Corrigan.
At the beginning of the year thousands of Radio 4 listeners from all parts of the UK sent in nominations, describing the work of their food heroes. Now, six weeks on, the judging team has decided who the finalists are.
Dan Saladino introduces the 24 finalists across ten different categories from Best Drinks Producer to Best Food Market and from Best Local Food Retailer to Best Streetfood and Takeaway. The judges have been travelling to meet them all, taste the food and drink they make and hear their stories.
In early May, in Bristol, at the annual Awards ceremony, we'll find out which of these finalists go on to become the winners.
Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.
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| 0:49.0 | And now, enjoy the podcast. At the beginning of the year we asked you to tell us who was making a real difference to food, |
| 1:00.3 | drink and farming in the UK and you sent in thousands of nominations. |
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| 1:35.2 | you'll find in 2014, among them people who started out with small ideas and |
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