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The Food Programme

The Big Pig Roadtrip

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Tim Hayward travels the country to meet some of the people who breed and champion rare breeds of British pigs like the Oxford sandy, the large black and the Tamworth. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tim Hayward
Interviewed Guest:
Adam Henson
Interviewed Guest:
John Francis
Interviewed Guest:
Nick Francis
Interviewed Guest:
Robert Buttle
Producer:
Toby Field

Great Lives

Sara Pascoe on Virginia Woolf

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Comedian Sara Pascoe chooses the author of ‘Mrs Dalloway’, Virginia Woolf. With Matthew Parris. From 2016. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Parris
Interviewed Guest:
Sara Pascoe
Interviewed Guest:
Alexandra Harris
Producer:
Toby Field

The Food Programme

Young and Vegan

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

The number of young people turning vegan is rising. Grace Dent meets some of the people opening vegan eateries and asks if this is a trend or a food revolution. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Grace Dent
Interviewed Guest:
Jay Brave
Interviewed Guest:
Sean O'Callaghan
Interviewed Guest:
Ian Theasby
Interviewed Guest:
Henry Firth
Interviewed Guest:
Maria Rose
Producer:
Toby Field

The Food Programme

BBC Food and Farming Awards 2015: The Finalists

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Sheila Dillon reveals the producers, retailers and farmers who have made it to the final stages of the 2015 BBC Food and Farming Awards. Show more

The Food Programme

The World Service Cookbook

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Meet some of the people from the BBC World Service Language Services who have submitted recipes and stories from their home country to help create an extraordinary cookbook. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Sheila Dillon
Interviewed Guest:
Paula Moio
Interviewed Guest:
Sadeq Saba
Interviewed Guest:
Aliya Nazki
Interviewed Guest:
Dmitry Shishkin
Producer:
Toby Field

Ramblings

Series 24

Episode 2: In Search of Love

Duration: 23 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Clare Balding meets those who have found love and companionship through walking, when she joins a group to walk a section of the Greensand Way in Surrey. Show more

Great Lives

Will Gregory on Flann O'Brien

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Goldfrapp's Will Gregory chooses the comically brilliant Irish writer, Flann O'Brien. With Matthew Parris. From 2017. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Parris
Interviewed Guest:
Will Gregory
Interviewed Guest:
Carol Taaffe
Producer:
Toby Field

Great Lives

Frank Turner on Joseph Grimaldi

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Pantomime pioneer, Joseph Grimaldi, is nominated by Frank Turner. With Mattie Faint. Presented by Matthew Parris. From 2016. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Parris
Interviewed Guest:
Frank Turner
Interviewed Guest:
Mattie Faint
Producer:
Toby Field

Great Lives

Episode 2: Alex Salmond on Thomas Muir

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Thomas Muir. Alex Salmond chooses Thomas Muir, whom he describes as the father of Scottish democracy. Matthew Parris presents, joined by Muir expert Murray Armstrong. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Parris
Interviewed Guest:
Alex Salmond
Interviewed Guest:
Murray Armstrong
Producer:
Toby Field

Great Lives

Eliza Carthy on Caroline Norton

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Singer Eliza Carthy chooses 19th-century women’s rights campaigner, Caroline Norton. With Matthew Parris. From 2016. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Parris
Interviewed Guest:
Eliza Carthy
Producer:
Toby Field

Great Lives

Cyrus Todiwala on Dadabhai Naoroji

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Chef Cyrus Todiwala chooses Dadabhai Naoroji who in 1892 became Britain's first Asian MP. With Matthew Parris. From 2016. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Parris
Interviewed Guest:
Cyrus Todiwala
Interviewed Guest:
Zerbanoo Gifford
Producer:
Toby Field

Great Lives

Ruth Holdaway on Helen Rollason

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Ruth Holdaway, Chief Executive of Women in Sport, chooses sports broadcaster Helen Rollason. With Matthew Parris. From 2016. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Parris
Interviewed Guest:
Ruth Holdaway
Interviewed Guest:
John Caunt
Interviewed Guest:
Clare Balding
Interviewed Guest:
James Pearce
Interviewed Guest:
Deb Crook
Producer:
Toby Field

Great Lives

Akram Khan on Srinivasa Ramanujan

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Choreographer Akram Khan chooses the intellectually daring Indian mathematician, Ramanujan. With Matthew Parris. From 2017. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Parris
Interviewed Guest:
Akram Khan
Interviewed Guest:
Robin Wilson
Producer:
Toby Field

Drama on 4

Nick Perry - The Transfer

Duration: 45 minutes

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

4 Extra Debut. Football agent Danny Provisor negotiates desperate last-ditch deals on football's transfer deadline day. Stars David Schofield. Show more

Contributors

Danny Provisor:
David Schofield
Jonathan Provisor:
Daniel Abelson
Steve Lucas:
Simon Armstrong
Graham Parsons:
Simon Armstrong
Peter Gray:
Chris Donnelly
Mr Agnihotri:
Chris Donnelly
Stanislav Illich:
Velibor Topic
Slavko Illich:
Mirza Koluder
As Himself:
Ian Dennis
Writer:
Nick Perry
Producer:
Toby Field

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