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The Food Programme

The Sourdough Library

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4943 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dan Saladino visits a unique collection of sourdough bread starters from around the world and explores a hidden world of grains, yeasts, bacteria and their influence on our health.

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino

Transcript

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0:00.0

My name is Annie Matt Manus and my name is Nick Grimshaw. How long have we known each other babe?

0:05.1

Probably 20 years now and in that time we've always worked in and around music right?

0:10.6

We have. So it kind of makes sense that we do a podcast better.

0:13.4

It sounds like he's been 20 years in the making. It's not a avatar for podcasts, basically,

0:17.6

but it is good. So we put the world to rights with regards to music.

0:21.5

It's all the stuff that you'd want to chat to your mate about over a pint.

0:25.0

Sidetracked with us Annie and Nick,

0:27.0

listen on BBC Sounds.

0:31.0

So it's a short walk.

0:32.0

It's actually the only house which was not bombarded during the Second World War.

0:39.0

On a gray rainy day in Belgium, near the city of San Vitz on the German border.

0:44.7

I'm walking towards one of the world's most unusual libraries.

0:48.8

So are you ready? I am. Are you excited? I'm very excited. Bo.

0:55.0

The special code that's been pressed

0:57.0

which unlocks a security door and reveals a hidden underground room.

1:03.0

Wow.

1:05.0

And although this is a library, there are no books,

1:10.0

instead what lines the walls is a collection that's alive.

1:20.0

Wood-paneled wood-floor, but the thing that your eye is immediately drawn to are rows of fridges with glass doors

1:30.3

so you can look inside because inside those fridges are jars and each one has a

1:35.3

label with a number on. Yeah, this is the library, the collection. And do you hear the

1:39.7

microorganism? In this edition we're stepping inside the world's first and only

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