Consider the Eel: Part 2
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Dan Saladino follows up the debate on if the eel should be off the menu.
Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.3 | Their company's success helped build a nation. |
| 0:10.9 | The company is such a big part of Korea's economy. |
| 0:13.5 | But who are the family behind one of the world's tech giants? |
| 0:17.2 | They often say, look, we built the nation. |
| 0:19.2 | And without us, South Korea as it exists today, |
| 0:22.6 | would simply not be here. Inheritance, Samsung explores the real-life dramas of the Lee family |
| 0:28.3 | and their company. They are the equivalent of royalty. Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.7 | Inside a tropical forest, a crowd of people are gathered around a crashed airplane. |
| 0:43.3 | From a distance, it's possible to make out the mangled wreckage of white and yellow metal |
| 0:48.9 | surrounded by tall banana plants. |
| 0:53.6 | But a closer look, beyond the crowd of firefighters, police and TV news reporters |
| 0:59.6 | reveals something strange about this crash site in Haiti, in the Caribbean. |
| 1:05.2 | On the ground surrounding the wreckage are thousands of tiny worm-like creatures, |
| 1:11.6 | four centimetres long and pale in colour, almost translucent. |
| 1:15.6 | Some are still moving, wriggling and flipping around. |
| 1:19.6 | It appears the private plane was carrying a shipment of live baby eels, |
| 1:26.6 | part of a lucrative and sometimes illegal global trade. |
| 1:35.3 | For the past four years, in a co-production between the World Services Investigative Arm BBCI |
| 1:41.6 | and a German production company, Doc Days, a team of journalists |
| 1:46.0 | has been investigating the networks involved in moving what is now one of the world's most |
| 1:51.8 | endangered fish species, the eel, across continents. And in this edition of the food program, |
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