The Food Programme

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The Food Programme is a BBC Radio 4 programme investigating and celebrating good food, currently presented by Sheila Dillon. It is a programme about food production, consumption and quality rather than a cookery program with recipes. Examples of topics that have been broadcast on the programme during 2006 include pears, the Romany diet and the importance of food at Hindu and Sikh festivals. Various topics may be discussed on the programme, including:

Topical issues related to food, such as dealing with food waste; Programmes devoted to one specific food item, such as a particular fruit; Programmes devoted to the food of a certain part of the world or certain ethnic peoples; Programmes devoted to health issues in relation to food.


The show hosts the annual BBC Radio Food and Farming Awards, and in so doing has been praised by The Prince of Wales as a 'national institution' [1]. The Food Programme itself has won multiple UK radio awards [2] [3].

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  1.   Speech by the Prince of Wales at the BBC Radio Food and Farming Awards 2000
  2.   Sony Radio Academy Awards 2004
  3.   Guild of Food Writers Awards 1998,2001,2004