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The Food Programme

The Potato

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Sheila Dillon digs up the remarkable story of how potatoes changed the world, offer a whole spectrum of flavour, and might shape our food future.

With Sheila are cook and food writer Anna Jones, Charles C. Mann - author of '1493 - How Europe's Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth', and the potato revolutionary and agronomist Alan Wilson.

Presenter: Sheila Dillon
Producer: Rich Ward. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Sheila Dillon
Interviewed Guest:
Anna Jones
Interviewed Guest:
Charles Mann
Interviewed Guest:
Alan Wilson
Producer:
Rich Ward

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