Naturally Misleading?
What is 'natural' food and is it better for us? We explore the language of food labelling. Does a product bearing the word 'natural' on its label make you more likely to buy it? Or, is describing food...
27 Aug 201626min
Survival Stories: Fish bacon for breakfast
Our second episode of Survival Stories further explores our relationship with food in the most extreme circumstances. What choices do we make about what we eat, when we’re all alone in the wild? Do o...
20 Aug 201626min
Survival Stories: Lost in the Desert
What happens when your food choices are determined by nothing but the environment around you and your own resolve? The Food Chain follows the story of 72- year-old grandmother Ann Rodgers, who went m...
13 Aug 201626min
Fertile Food
How much could your diet affect your ability to have a child? Throughout history, harvest and the abundance of food have been associated with the creation of life. Join us on a journey from ancient tr...
6 Aug 201626min
Food on the Move: What We Want, When We Want It
Fruit in the summer, grain in the autumn - our diets once consisted of eating what was around us and what was in season. But we now live in a global food village, where in many countries the idea of e...
30 Jul 201626min
Inside the Kitchens of Power
Why is cheese essential when the German Chancellor comes for dinner? For millennia, international relations have been massaged by the chefs working inside palaces and state kitchens. The BBC’s Dan Sal...
26 Jul 201626min
Beauty from Within?
This week we're looking at what happens when the worlds of food and beauty collide. The BBC's Emily Thomas explores how the market for nutricosmetics - foods that have claimed beauty benefits - is gro...
16 Jul 201626min
Can Cheese Help Save an Economy?
The BBC’s Dan Saladino takes a journey on a newly built road through the remote mountains of the country’s north in search of a slice of mishavin cheese. After decades of communist rule, Albania start...
9 Jul 201626min
