Yeast

A global commodity, and now part of a food revival. Sheila Dillon on the wonders of yeast.

• 25 mins

Mario Cassandro

Sheila Dillon looks at the life of Mario Cassandro, a man who re-invented the restaurant.

• 25 mins

Scotland's Food Policy

With Sheila Dillon. A look at Scotland's first ever national food policy.

• 25 mins

Food Icons: Major Patrick Rance

In a series on people who've changed the way we eat, The Food Programme profiles Pat Rance

• 25 mins

Kitchen Designers

A special edition with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen looking at the history of kitchen design.

• 30 mins

Food Icons: George Perry-Smith

The story and legacy of the maverick, self taught, legendary chef George Perry-Smith.

• 25 mins

Food Poverty

Simon Parkes reveals a Britain in which hunger and hard food choices are all too real.

• 25 mins

The Honey Business

Sheila Dillon takes a look behind the scenes of the honey industry.

• 28 mins

Food ads and children

Sheila Dillon explores the issue of advertising junk food to children.

• 25 mins

Beer - Trouble Brewing?

As tax on low-alcohol beer is cut, Sheila Dillon asks how problem drinking can be tackled.

• 25 mins

Los Angeles Street Food

Richard Johnson travels to Los Angeles, a city where many of the world's food trends begin

• 25 mins

Pickling and Preserving

Sheila Dillon looks at some of the ingenious ways we have developed of preserving food.

• 25 mins

The Calorie

Sheila Dillon asks if the calorie is an outdated way of controlling diet.

• 25 mins

Palm Oil

A traditional cooking oil and a controversial food ingredient. What's up with palm oil?

• 25 mins

Into the Wild

Feeding a restaurant trend, Sheila Dillon investigates the world of commercial foragers.

• 25 mins

Future Food

Simon Parkes meets the people trying to come up with food ideas for the future.

• 25 mins

A Special (Food) Relationship

Mark Bittman, chief food writer at the New York Times, meets three campaigning UK chefs.

• 25 mins

Britain's best food producers

Sheila Dillon reports on the winners and finalists of the BBC Food and Farming Awards 2011

• 25 mins

Britain's best food markets

Sheila Dillon discusses this year's winners in the Best Market category of the Food Awards

• 25 mins

The Price of Food

Dan Saladino exlores how higher food prices are changing what we buy and how we eat.

• 25 mins

Gin and Botanicals

Dan Saladino explores the past, present and future of the most British of drinks, gin.

• 25 mins

The Food Quiz

Tim Hayward presents a special food quiz edition recorded at the Abergavenny Food Festival

• 30 mins

New Year's Food Quiz

Tim Hayward and the Food Quiz team juggle more food history, trivia and recipe knowledge.

• 25 mins

Food Stories: What Happened Next?

Sheila Dillon reports on the major developments in the big food stories of 2011.

• 25 mins

London 2012, Coke and McDonalds

Food and the Olympics. Guest presenter John Inverdale looks ahead to London 2012.

• 28 mins

Generation Food

A profile of the people coming up with radical ideas for food in the UK.

• 28 mins

The Trouble with Chocolate

Sheila Dillon explains why supplies of cocoa around the world are facing a tricky future.

• 28 mins

Adventures in Vegetarian Cuisine

Can a new wave of vegetarian chefs and food writers change mainstream cuisine?

• 28 mins

African Food Security

Sheila Dillon on a project in Ethiopia involving a radical change in farming practice.

• 25 mins

Comfort Food

In these uncomfortable times, Sheila Dillon asks what role food plays in giving comfort.

• 28 mins