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Episode 1: A Half-Baked History

A Half-Baked History

BBC Radio 4 - Our Daily Bread, A Half-Baked History

Jonathan Kent looks at a staple we take for granted and explores what it reveals about us.

Jonathan Kent looks at a staple we take for granted and explores what it reveals about us - through history, faith, health, culture and human relationships.

It's the staff of life, the body of Christ, the foundation of Western civilization, the thing we work to put on our table; it's our daily bread.

It was so central to our ancestors that it became a sacred object, a political totem, and infused their language - the difference between feast and famine. Yet now it's almost universally taken for granted.

And because bread was there as a witness to every stage of our transformation, from hunter gatherer to 21st century creatures of the cyber age, it has a lot to tell us.

In Our Daily Bread the journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Kent takes bread as a starting point for an exploration of human history, health, faith, culture and relationships.

A Half-Baked History of the World in Seven Loaves (and a crumb) takes eight slices from twenty five thousand years of bread.


Producer: Jonathan Kent
A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Jonathan Kent looks at a staple we take for granted and explores what it reveals about us

Jonathan Kent takes bread as a starting point for an exploration of human history, health, faith, culture and relationships

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