The Food Programme at 40: Looking Forward (Part II)
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Andi Oliver, Rick Stein and Yotam Ottolenghi join Sheila Dillon at the BBC Radio Theatre to celebrate 40 years of The Food Programme and ask what changes the next four decades might bring to the way we eat and drink.
Together with restaurant critic for The Guardian and MasterChef regular, Grace Dent and food blogger and presenter Leyla Kazim, they’ll traverse the food trends which have shaped our eating in and eating out, and face questions from listeners from all over the country. From fad diets to food fraud, from the scandals which have shocked us to the cook books we reach for in our flour-coated, milk-spattered kitchen time of need; the highs and lows of 40 years in food and drink.
The Food Programme was commissioned in 1979 as a six-part radio series fronted by Derek Cooper. Join in as we share the food stories which have helped make the series the place on BBC Radio 4, for hungry minds across four decades.
Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury.
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| 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. |
| 0:15.3 | What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism |
| 0:19.8 | 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 |
| 0:28.4 | 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, |
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| 0:39.7 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:45.0 | Thanks for downloading this podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | This is the second of two special programs celebrating the Food Program's 40th anniversary. |
| 0:53.4 | So if you've not listened to last week's podcast, |
| 0:55.8 | I recommend you do that first. |
| 0:57.6 | Then come straight back here. |
| 0:59.7 | Now, over to our host Andy Oliver. |
| 1:03.0 | You join us in the BBC Radio Theatre where we are marking the 40th anniversary of the food program. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm joined on stage by Sheila Dylan Yottam Ottelengi, Leila Kazim, Graceden and Rick Stein. |
| 1:18.0 | Yes, poor food clap. |
| 1:20.0 | This is the food program, the place for Hungry Minds in 1982 the founder of the Food |
| 1:26.7 | Program Derek Cooper wondered in 20 years time will we all be eating a plateful |
| 1:31.2 | of pills a diet of seaweed or mum's apple pie. |
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