If you’re interested in learning more about food and eating, particularly from a scientific or research perspective, then I highly recommend the following podcasts: Gastropod and BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme.
Free Food: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Foraging – Gastropod
For most of human history, humans have fed ourselves by foraging, with a little bit of hunting when we were lucky—think more gatherer than hunter. Picking edible greens, nuts, fruits, roots, and mushrooms kept us alive before the advent of farming and, scientists think, helped make us who we are. So why did we stop eating wild foods? And how did an arrest in Central Park, Martha Stewart, and COVID make foraging cool again? Listen in this episode as we head out into the park to find dinner, explore the unexpected connections between foraging and ADHD, Jim Crow, and Grape Nuts, and enjoy a delicious wild feast full of flavors we've been missing out on.
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The BBC Food and Farming Awards 2026 – The Food Programme
Sheila Dillon reveals the winners of this year's BBC Food and Farming Awards from Northern Ireland. She and this year's head judge Paula McIntyre meet some of the best food and drink producers in the country at the ceremony at Titanic Belfast. Just who will take home the coveted BBC Food Programme chopping boards?Produced by Robin Markwell for BBC Audio in Bristol
