The Secret Life of Chocolate. Part 2: The future.
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Sheila Dillon is joined by baker and chocolatier Selasi Gbormittah and chocoholic comedian Sue Perkins to celebrate the present and future of the British chocolate bar.
They look to a new generation of UK bred 'Willy Wonkas', chocolate makers large and small, from South East London to West Wales.
And Sheila tracks down one major chocolate player disrupting the international market with its bold designs, flavours and business model focussed on ending child slavery in cocoa production.
The last of a two part chocolate special of The Food Programme.
Produced by Clare Salisbury for BBC Audio Bristol.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2020.
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| 0:58.4 | You're listening to the food program, that place for hungry minds and this week a place again for chocolate lovers. |
| 1:05.0 | We will finally have this chocolate revolution. |
| 1:07.0 | That rolled dull question, the seven glorious years. I mean, I had tears in my eyes. |
| 1:14.0 | I got a treasure chest which is full of chocolate. |
| 1:16.0 | How big is your treasure chest? |
| 1:18.0 | I can actually fit in it so that's how big it is. Yes. You're living a dream, my friend. |
| 1:25.0 | Last week, Dan Saladino took us on a journey |
| 1:29.0 | from the ancient spiced cocoa drinks of South America to Roll Dahl's golden era of chocolate making, |
| 1:36.7 | those seven glorious years, as he put it in the 20s and 30s, when dairy milk, flake, |
| 1:42.0 | Mars, and many of the other bars of our |
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