The Future of Food Markets
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Food markets have been the heart of our towns and cities for thousands of years. Now, with financial pressure on local authorities, and growing competition from a supermarkets price war, Sheila Dillon and guests discuss what a market needs to survive in 2015.
Sheila is joined by award winning markets organiser Malcolm Veigas, Carolyn Steel architect and author of 'Hungry City' and market trader and BBC Food and Farming Awards 2015 judge in the Best Market category, Peter Gott.
She also hears from a 'monstrously huge' and revolutionary new market development in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, from one of the UK's oldest established markets in Leicester and from the organiser of Iceland's first ever farmers market.
Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury.
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| 0:49.0 | And now, enjoy the podcast. Today we're talking about the future of food markets and looking at some of the best, some |
| 1:00.3 | of the most radical ideas in the market world, not only in the UK, but in cities across Europe, including Rotterdam. |
| 1:09.0 | I think it's so beautiful, all the food, all the colors. Well, the market, other colors. |
| 1:13.0 | Well the market itself is big, but the entire building around it is it's |
| 1:18.2 | monsters. |
| 1:19.2 | It sounds negative if you say it like that. |
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| 1:22.5 | It's good monsters. |
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