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Food: Series 4

Episode 10

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two HD

Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford unpick some of the key factors that influence which foods end up on our plates, from price and availability to the latest trends. The team explores the implications of the vegetable shortage earlier this year, and the effect it continues to have on food today. With the cost of some everyday staples soaring at the peak of the problem, how can what we pay be kept under control? Also today, disgruntled customers explain why they now watch films at home thanks to the soaring cost of cinema snacks. And with marmalade the latest food to fall firmly out of fashion, what's to be done to save once-favourite foods from extinction? Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Angela Rippon
Executive Producer:
Rob Unsworth
Series Producer:
Ali McBride

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