The Food Chain Podcast
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
Episodes to download
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Seeds, Syrup and Subversion
Sat 18 Jun 2016
The rebels and revolutionaries fighting against what some see as a food dictatorship
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Faster Food
Sat 11 Jun 2016
As the Rio Olympics edge closer, we explore how food can make you a better athlete
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Extreme Farming
Sat 4 Jun 2016
How a tiny country has become the world's second biggest exporter of farmed food.
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Is Junk Food the New Smoking?
Sat 28 May 2016
Is the junk food industry like the big tobacco companies when it comes to marketing?
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Fish Fight
Sat 21 May 2016
With fish stocks dwindling and illegal fishing rife, how do you police the oceans?
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A Dog's Dinner?
Sat 14 May 2016
The pet food industry, and its striking similarities to the human food chain
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Disaster Food: Feeding a Country in Crisis
Sat 7 May 2016
The impact of natural disasters on a country's ability to feed itself.
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Bottled Water: Do We Really Need It?
Sat 30 Apr 2016
Is bottled water the ultimate marketing con, or a potential lifesaver?
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Eating With Our Ears: The Sound of Food
Sat 23 Apr 2016
How sound and music influence the way we taste food and drink.
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Food and Nostalgia
Sat 26 Mar 2016
The power food has to evoke memory and how memory impacts the food we eat
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Is Convenience Killing Us?
Sat 19 Mar 2016
Processed, packaged, flavoured and often pre-cooked food is now a norm but at what cost?
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Food Waste: How Low Can it Go?
Sat 12 Mar 2016
Exploring a problem that is costing one in three of the world's calories.
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The Truth About Diabetes
Sat 6 Feb 2016
Unpicking the issues of a global disease that is spiralling out of control
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Chinatown
Sat 21 Nov 2015
From Manila to Havana, we explore the story and legacy of Chinatowns around the world.
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Back of House
Sat 14 Nov 2015
Want to be a chef? Low entry level wages along with culinary college debt makes it hard
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India: How to Feed a Nation
Sat 5 Sep 2015
Can the world鈥檚 largest democracy guarantee its citizens the right to their next meal?
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India: Faith, Food, and Politics
Sat 29 Aug 2015
Faith, food, and politics in the world's largest democracy.
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Food of Love
Sat 15 Aug 2015
From a baby鈥檚 first cry to the funeral feast: food as the language of love.
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Chicken: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Sat 8 Aug 2015
The Food Chain returns to explore one of the world's most important foods: the chicken.
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How to (Not) Grow Your Food Business
Sat 20 Jun 2015
Can a food company stay small and still survive?
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Sexual Politics in the Kitchen
Sat 13 Jun 2015
How does gender affect what we eat, cook and what food we buy and why does it matter?
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How Do We Know What鈥檚 Good For Us?
Sat 30 May 2015
The mixed messages of the science of eating and why not all experts agree.
Food Chain highlights
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