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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Variety Pack
Fri 9 Jan 2015
Turning straw into sugar, Lesotho's trout farms for Japanese sushi, healthy Dunkin Donuts
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Sugar: A Love-Hate Relationship
Fri 2 Jan 2015
Does a little of what you fancy do you good - or should we avoid it at all costs?
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Food Technophobes v Technophiles
Fri 5 Dec 2014
Food is increasingly engineered - who decides if a new food technology is safe?
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Whose Food is it Anyway?
Fri 28 Nov 2014
What happens to a cuisine's national identity once it crosses international borders?
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Food and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Fri 14 Nov 2014
As politics changes - does our food follow suit?
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Why Do We Waste So Much Food?
Fri 7 Nov 2014
Can business and science provide a solution to why we waste so much food?
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Super Foods or Super Fads?
Fri 31 Oct 2014
Is our appetite for the trendiest health foods based on science, or clever marketing?
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Big Beer
Fri 2 Sep 2016
We look at one of the world's biggest ever corporate takeovers, and it's all about beer.
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Animals on Antibiotics: Could Pigs on Pills Make us Ill?
Sat 16 Apr 2016
Amid warnings we are heading into post-antibiotic era, we ask if farmers are to blame.
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Food Chain Late Night
Sat 9 Apr 2016
We explore the characters and cuisines that come out after dark .
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Front of House
Sat 2 Apr 2016
Manuela Saragosa looks at the business of serving and pleasing the ever-fickle customer.
Food Chain highlights
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