The Food Chain

BBC World Service

The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.

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553 episodes
Updated Wednesday

Episodes553

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Jul 9, 2016 · 26 min
Can Cheese Help Save an Economy?
Could cheese be the answer to some of Albania’s economic woes?
Jul 2, 2016 · 26 min
Plough Your Own Furrow?
After the UK vote to leave the EU, we look at models for agriculture around the world
Jun 25, 2016 · 26 min
Mind your Manners
Has there been a global shrugging off of table manners?
Jun 18, 2016 · 26 min
Seeds, Syrup and Subversion
The rebels and revolutionaries fighting against what some see as a food dictatorship
Jun 11, 2016 · 26 min
Faster Food
As the Rio Olympics edge closer, we explore how food can make you a better athlete
Jun 4, 2016 · 26 min
Extreme Farming
How a tiny country has become the world's second biggest exporter of farmed food.
May 28, 2016 · 26 min
Is Junk Food the New Smoking?
Is the junk food industry like the big tobacco companies when it comes to marketing?
May 21, 2016 · 26 min
Fish Fight
With fish stocks dwindling and illegal fishing rife, how do you police the oceans?
May 14, 2016 · 26 min
A Dog's Dinner?
The pet food industry, and its striking similarities to the human food chain
May 7, 2016 · 26 min
Disaster Food: Feeding a Country in Crisis
The impact of natural disasters on a country's ability to feed itself.
Apr 30, 2016 · 26 min
Bottled Water: Do We Really Need It?
Is bottled water the ultimate marketing con, or a potential lifesaver?
Apr 16, 2016 · 26 min
Animals on Antibiotics: Could Pigs on Pills Make us Ill?
Amid warnings we are heading into post-antibiotic era, we ask if farmers are to blame.
Apr 9, 2016 · 26 min
Food Chain Late Night
We explore the characters and cuisines that come out after dark .
Apr 2, 2016 · 26 min
Front of House
Manuela Saragosa looks at the business of serving and pleasing the ever-fickle customer.
Mar 26, 2016 · 26 min
Food and Nostalgia
The power food has to evoke memory and how memory impacts the food we eat
Mar 19, 2016 · 26 min
Is Convenience Killing Us?
Processed, packaged, flavoured and often pre-cooked food is now a norm but at what cost?
Mar 12, 2016 · 26 min
Food Waste: How Low Can it Go?
Exploring a problem that is costing one in three of the world's calories.
Mar 5, 2016 · 26 min
No Such Thing as a Free Lunch?
The relationship between food and the workplace
Feb 27, 2016 · 26 min
Food, Power and Punishment
What part should food play in punishment?
Feb 6, 2016 · 26 min
The Truth About Diabetes
Unpicking the issues of a global disease that is spiralling out of control

The Food Chain

Can Cheese Help Save an Economy?

Plough Your Own Furrow?

Mind your Manners

Seeds, Syrup and Subversion

Faster Food

Extreme Farming

Is Junk Food the New Smoking?

Fish Fight

A Dog's Dinner?

Disaster Food: Feeding a Country in Crisis

Bottled Water: Do We Really Need It?

Animals on Antibiotics: Could Pigs on Pills Make us Ill?

Food Chain Late Night

Front of House

Food and Nostalgia

Is Convenience Killing Us?

Food Waste: How Low Can it Go?

No Such Thing as a Free Lunch?

Food, Power and Punishment

The Truth About Diabetes