Feeding the Falklands

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Would you buy a pineapple for £15? The Falkland Islands provides much of the squid we eat in Europe. And they can produce more lamb and beef than they could possibly eat. But some food - like fruit - is not so easy to get hold of. Gerard Baker meets islanders to discover how a remote community meets the challenge of providing a varied diet.

Producer: Chris Ledgard

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0:50.0	Nex, Sonder Settlement, we'll pick you up at 8 o'clock. Nick, thank you 8 o'clock.
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0:59.0	Rookery Cottage Sonder Settlement.
1:01.0	Are you still listening?
1:02.0	Tourism, Falkland style.
1:04.0	Rucery,
1:05.0	Cottage Rucqurey, Cauders Island,
1:07.0	Susan Poe Evans radios around the guest accommodation
1:10.0	to arrange a flight back to the capital Stanley.
1:12.0	The Poe Evans family own and farm Saunders
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