Food and the Cinema
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2012
⏱️ 24 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Tom Parker Bowles looks at the cinema eating experience: from popcorn and nachos to three course meals, there's now every kind of food available to nibble on whilst at the movies. But is it right that we should eat in such a distracted way? Isn't it a ticket to obesity?
Producer: Maggie Ayre.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the |
| 0:03.8 | podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC. |
| 0:08.6 | It's a massive area but I'd sum it up as stories to help us make sense of the forces shaping the world. |
| 0:15.0 | What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism |
| 0:20.0 | and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines. |
| 0:23.7 | And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject |
| 0:28.3 | you might not even have thought you were interested in. |
| 0:30.2 | Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment, |
| 0:36.1 | you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello, I'm Sheila Dylan and welcome to this BBC download of the Food Program. |
| 0:45.8 | For information on the BBC's terms and conditions of use, visit |
| 0:49.4 | W.W. |
| 0:50.3 | dot BBC dot co- |
| 0:52.6 | UK slash radio four and now enjoy the podcast We're drawn to the cinema by adventure, thrills, drama and glamour. |
| 1:19.0 | But for too long the accompaniment to that experience has been decidedly second rate. |
| 1:27.0 | This used to be the pinnacle of what film audiences could expect as an eating experience |
| 1:30.9 | at the cinema, the sound of crackling cellophane and tiny foil, something |
| 1:35.4 | that in terms of decibels could compete with the movie soundtrack. |
| 1:41.8 | But irritating as those rustlings and crunchings may be, they are nothing to what now goes on in the dark at your local fleepip. |
| 1:48.0 | A small number of pioneers are trying to break the dominance of popcorn and hot dogs and bring the excitement back to the marriage of food and film. |
| 1:56.0 | Hello, good afternoon, sir. How are you today? |
| 1:58.0 | Very well, thank you. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

