The Price of Food

The Food Programme

BBC

Food, Arts

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The food industry is predicting double digit inflation and are calling on the Government to act. Dan Saladino asks what lies behind the gloomy forecast, who will be most affected by price increases and if anything can be done to avoid the worst case scenario?

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:07.2	Things just swirling around my head.
0:09.6	Am I really the product of this?
0:12.1	Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.
0:17.0	Little did I know what more was to come.
0:19.5	I'm Jenny Clemen, and in the new series of The Gift, we'll hear more stories emerging
0:25.2	out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.
0:28.8	They did know that I was different.
0:31.7	You had kids together.
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:33.5	Then you met.
0:34.3	Then we met.
0:35.2	The Gift.
0:36.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:41.0	It's 9 o'clock in the morning at St Todwald's parish church in Coney Hill, a district on the outskirts of Gloucester.
0:48.5	And local resident Tanya Dando is getting ready to feed people.
0:53.5	All right.
0:53.8	So what they've got in there this week, I haven't finished putting stuff in, yeah.
0:58.0	They've got toffee sundays, peanut butter, gravy carrots and a pie.
1:05.0	The Coney Hill Food Hub is one of thousands of community food providers to have sprung up in recent years.
1:13.2	Here, every Thursday, without any questions asked, people can walk through its doors,
1:18.5	spend time with Tanya and her team, have a cup of tea, sit down for lunch, and leave with a bag of
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