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The Food Programme

Hunting With The Hadza 2: The Microbiome.

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4976 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dan Saladino asks if hunter gatherers, the Hadza tribe, hold the key to our future health. Presented and produced by Dan Saladino.

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Hello, you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio 4's The Food Program.

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I'm in one of the most remote parts of Tanzania, hours from the nearest city.

0:59.0

A meal of porcupine has just been cooked on a campfire, but now a manhunt is underway.

1:05.5

I was asking earlier if Tim was up ahead.

1:08.4

One of the world's leading thinkers on the future of our food is missing.

1:12.6

We're in East Africa.

1:14.6

In the woodland savanna, we've come here to understand the diet of the

1:19.2

Hadza, some of the world's last remaining hunter-gatherers, a tribe of just over a thousand people.

1:27.5

Somehow we've lost Professor Tim Specter in the field.

1:30.0

We're all going out to search for him.

1:32.4

Someone thought he might have lingered behind,

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