Summary
We are celebrating 10 years of The Food Chain with some of our favourite programme moments from the past decade.
Fishing to stay alive, chopping onions in remembrance, and tasting people’s names – these stories and more tell us something about our relationship with food and how it helps us connect with one another.
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Presenter: Ruth Alexander
(Image: A chocolate birthday cake with number 10 candles on top. Credit: Getty Images)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm no longer ravenous. I'll no longer eat until I fall asleep. The Hunger Game, |
| 0:05.9 | a new five-part series exploring the meteoric rise of weight loss drugs. It's been an incredible |
| 0:10.7 | story with these drugs. The uptake, the amount of product that's been sold, the amounts of money |
| 0:15.1 | is cost. What the drugs do, how they work, and the knock-on effects of their widespread use. |
| 0:20.5 | We'll be sitting here in three years' time going, oh, it caused problems that we're now going |
| 0:25.3 | to have to fix. |
| 0:26.2 | The Hunger Game with me, Professor Gilesio. |
| 0:29.1 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello and welcome to the food chain from the BBC World Service with me Ruth Alexander. |
| 0:42.7 | This week we're celebrating the programme's 10th anniversary with a pick of some of our favourite moments from the past decade. |
| 0:50.8 | Fishing to stay alive, chopping onions in remembrance. And what's so funny about |
| 0:56.2 | Bolognese? Just a few of the stories you'll hear in this eclectic mix. Each tells us something |
| 1:02.7 | about our relationship with food and how it helps us connect with one another. And just to say, |
| 1:08.3 | we will be talking about the sensitive topic of bereavement. |
| 1:12.1 | Let's start with the basics, when food is life or death. In survival stories, fish bacon for |
| 1:20.3 | breakfast, broadcast in 2016, presenter Emily Thomas spoke to Steve Callahan from the United |
| 1:26.3 | States. I'm probably best known for being dumb enough to lose Callahan from the United States. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm probably best known for being dumb enough to lose my boat in the middle of the Atlantic and spending the next two and a half months drifting about 2,000 miles and learning to live |
| 1:37.4 | like an aquatic caveman. |
| 1:39.2 | It happened in 1982 when he was 29. In the aftermath of divorce and business problems, Steve had decided to |
| 1:46.6 | follow a dream, to build a boat to cross the North Atlantic Ocean. He did it. On his return journey, |
| 1:53.7 | however, eight days from the Canary Islands as he headed towards the Caribbean, something struck |
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