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The Food Programme: Sweet Britain

Sweet Britain

29/03/2015

BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme, Sweet Britain

Sheila Dillon asks what is still driving British people's love affair with sweets.

As the 'sugar debate' rages on, sales of sweets seem stable. Sheila Dillon asks what is still driving British people's love affair with confectionery.

The nutritional debate over sugar doesn't seem to be putting off a new generation of sweet makers in this country. Sweets sales seem stable, and new treats are being created and exported all over the world.

Sheila speaks to sweet makers Freya Sykes and Steven Bletsoe who are giving new life to a forgotten sweet and an old family recipe. She looks at the state of the confectionery market today with help from The Grocer magazine, and Jeremy Dee, Managing Director of family sweets firm Swizzels. And sweets historian Tim Richardson shares a bag of sweets with Sheila that cast light on a long history of sweetness in the UK.

Sheila asks what's still driving our love affair with sweeties - young and old, old and new.

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