That Gut Feeling: Part One

The Food Programme

BBC

Food, Arts

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dan Saladino discovers the world of the gut microbiota, the vast array of microbes within us all. From East Africa to the White House, it's a story that'll change the way you eat.

Dan is joined by Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King's College London, and author of The Diet Myth - The Real Science Behind What We Eat. Tim tells the story of how he became fascinated by the gut microbiome and our diet.

The programme also features a Dutch draper named Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, co-founder of the American Gut Project Jeff Leach, evolutionary biochemist Dr Nick Lane, and Alexandre Meybeck - a Senior Officer at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.

Presenter: Dan Saladino Producer: Rich Ward.

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0:00.0	Hello you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio 4's The Food Program.
0:05.0	Welcome to our world from cooking to culture, politics to pleasure.
0:10.0	We hope you enjoy it.
0:12.0	I'm pleased to say we have company on the program today.
0:16.0	In fact, I'm sure it's the biggest number of guests we've ever hosted.
0:21.0	And my colleague Rich Ward is producing today now Rich how many
0:24.0	guests at the last count it's running into the trillions and did they want coffee just
0:29.0	the one cup I'll introduce those guests to you in a moment because I'm only just getting to know them myself and I already think they're my new best friends.
0:37.5	I think they'll become yours as well.
0:39.5	If they do, it's likely that friendship will change the way you eat forever. But to get to that
0:46.4	point we've a lot to get through an encounter with twins hunting with forest
0:51.0	tribes in East Africa and all with a trip to the White House and a London hospital thrown in.
0:56.0	Dan, don't forget to mention the food.
0:58.0	Oh, yeah, and as this is the food program, we will of course be offering our guests something delicious to eat and
1:05.5	drink so sit back and relax come with me on a journey of discovery you me and are
1:12.3	trillions of friends.
1:14.2	And part of their story starts in the Netherlands
1:17.6	300 years ago, as Nick Lane will explain.
1:21.2	That's Dr. Nick Lane. And I'm an evolutionary biochemist at University College
1:26.8	London. And our guide to one of the world's truly great discoveries made by a man from the city of Delft and although most of us
1:35.8	don't know his name we should a draper called Anthony Van Levenhook it's the
1:42.0	aftermath of the Anglo-Dutch War.
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