You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the

podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC.

It's a massive area but I'd sum it up as stories to help us make sense of the forces shaping the world.

What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism

and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines.

And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject

you might not even have thought you were interested in.

Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment,

you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds.

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. For the last few days I found myself thinking about making a mushroom omelet.

It's not usually the sort of dish I'd spend that much time thinking about, but I've been having cravings since watching the film Phantom Thread.

The film is actually about a fashion house and a love affair,

but it's the food scenes that have really stayed with me. I'm Lela Kacin and today in the food program,

The Place for Hungry Minds, I'm going to be looking at the ways food is used to tell stories in film and TV.

Because in these two worlds, food is so much more than simply a part of everyday life.

It's part of the language that tells us everything about the characters we see on screen.

What family will want a daughter in law who can run around kicking football all day but can't make round chabatties?

Because I make films that are culturally specific and generally about different kinds of worlds whether

they're British or Indian or around the world. I find for me that food is one of

those fantastic signifiers of culturally what you're talking about.

This is Garinda Chada OBE, a director who has famously used food in her films Bardieu on the beach and bend it like Beckham.

So in the strap line of anyone can cook Alougalbi but who could bend a ball like

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