Posh Water

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 976 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Should we be taking water more seriously? The emergence of the water sommelier would suggest so. Jaega Wise visits a Cheshire restaurant that now offers its own water menu as well as a Peak District pub with a water bar and a borehole to draw its own spring water. She talks to the co-founder of the Fine Waters Academy Michael Mascha who believes that water should be appreciated as a product with its own terroir and hears from Dr Natalie Lamb, a water industry expert who has been trained to appreciate the virtues of tap water. Whether hard or soft, still or sparkling - the Food Programme takes a closer look at the liquid we all too often take for granted.

Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Robin Markwell

Programme contains a clip of the Only Fools And Horses Episode "Mother Nature's Son", written by John Sullivan, first broadcast on BBC TV on 25th December, 1992

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
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0:21.2	I'll walk you through a big money saving topic step by step.
0:24.5	Then in question time, you set the agenda and ask whatever's on your mind.
0:28.6	Would you rather be locked in an empty shopping centre with a thousand snakes or just one gorilla?
0:33.6	Within reason.
0:34.2	The Martin Lewis podcast, listen on BBC Sounds.
0:42.2	Imagine you're sitting down to a meal in a restaurant.
0:45.9	The waiter asks you if you'd like some bottled water for the table.
0:49.9	And wherever you might be in the world, you're confronted with the same question.
0:56.0	Still or sparkling? Often we aren't aware which brand will be gracing our table.
1:00.0	Often we don't know how much the bottle of water is until the bill arrives.
1:03.0	But our options are always reduced to just still or sparkling.
1:09.0	I'm Jigewisen in this program.
1:13.5	I'll be meeting people who believe that question doesn't go anywhere near far enough.
1:15.9	People who believe that water should be taken more seriously.
1:19.3	People who believe that this most essential liquid
1:22.0	is being horribly overlooked.
1:24.8	I never thought that I would be the person talking to people about water.
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