Show overview
The Food Programme has been publishing since 2010, and across the 16 years since has built a catalogue of 844 episodes. That works out to roughly 430 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 28 min and 29 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Arts show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 6 days ago, with 40 episodes already out so far this year. Published by BBC.
Episodes
844
Running
2010–2026 · 16y
Median length
28 min
Cadence
Weekly
From the publisher
Investigating every aspect of the food we eat
Latest Episodes
View all 844 episodesThe Cost of Food
Oct 2, 202642 min
The BBC Food and Farming Awards 2026: The Food Producers
Sep 25, 202641 min
Stories of Food and Poverty
Sep 18, 202641 min
What the Normans did for our diet
Sep 10, 202642 min
A Day in the Life of a School Catering Manager
Sep 4, 202642 min
Fork and Knife
Aug 28, 202641 min
Taste the World: The Origins of Our Food
Aug 21, 202641 min
The Dark Arts of Affinage
Aug 14, 202642 min
Eating Octopus
Aug 7, 202642 min
What Happened Next?
Jul 31, 202642 min
Inside the Chocolate Crisis
Jul 24, 202641 min
How Pistachios Took Over
Jul 17, 202643 min
Howzat? The Story of the Cricket Tea
Jul 10, 202642 min
The Weight of the World
Jul 3, 202641 min
Could Food Do More in Cancer Care and Prevention?
Jun 26, 202643 min
Food on the Move
Jun 19, 202642 min
Inside England’s School Food Shake‑Up
Jun 12, 202642 min
The Price of Food
Jun 5, 202641 min
The BBC Food & Farming Awards 2026 Launch: Belfast here we come
May 29, 202642 min
The future of our fruit and veg
May 22, 202642 min
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