Dog Food (recorded live at Hay Festival)

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Is more expensive dog food worth it?

Greg Foot gathers the experts, dives into the data and crunches the numbers to get answers for listeners Izzy and Pete.

Each episode Greg investigates the latest ad-hyped products and trending fads promising to make us healthier, happier and greener. Are they really 'the best thing since sliced bread' and should you spend your money on them?

RESEARCHER: PHIL SANSOM PRODUCERS: SIMON HOBAN AND GREG FOOT

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0:39.7	Hello and welcome to Slice Bread from BBC Radio 4 recorded today at Hey Festival.
0:46.2	What an audience. It is so lovely to be back in gorgeous Hay on Y. We were here last year
0:51.3	to investigate the earplugs that had been popping up lots in our social media feeds. If you miss that, you can listen back on BBC Sounds. And since we were here
0:58.6	last year, we have crossed the 100 episode milestone. Yes. We're at over 120 episodes now, I believe,
1:06.6	which we're very proud of. So if you haven't listened to this before, there are lots of
1:09.8	investigations to dive into, everything from sunglasses to cooking oils to a recent one on
1:14.5	menopause supplements. Now, what we do on sliced bread is we take your suggested wonder products
1:19.7	and we explore whether they are indeed the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS. And the
1:26.6	audience here may have guessed today's Wonder Products
1:28.5	thanks to two special guests that we have on stage.
1:31.4	Two wonderful dogs.
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