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The Food Foundation Podcast

The Food Foundation Podcast

By: The Food Foundation
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The Food Foundation Podcast takes you inside the UK’s fight against food insecurity, exposing the gaps, holding big food to account, and celebrating the initiatives that make a real difference. From the impact of nourishing school meals to getting more beans on plates, we tell the stories that shape communities and drive change.


We've also produced a six-part mini series about the benefits of Banging in Some Beans hosted by chef Melissa Hemsley.


The podcast, previously named Right2Food, won a 2021 Guild of Food Writers Award.


Producer: Gilly Smith for the Food Foundation

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Episodes
  • Fowl play? The UK's insatiable appetite for chicken

    Fowl play? The UK's insatiable appetite for chicken
    Apr 24 2026

    Rebecca Tobi, Head of Food Business Transformation at the Food Foundation is joined for our 200th episode by a really panel of experts to discuss the vexed question of chicken in the UK.


    Anthony Field, Head of Compassion in World Farming UK, Myrtle Gregory, Research and Policy Officer at the Eating Better Alliance, and Mirzan, who's one of the Food Foundation's young food ambassadors explore the politics of poultry from environment to animal welfare and domestic food security objectives.


    Click here for the Food Foundation's Meat Facts report and here for the Food Foundation newsletter.



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    43 mins
  • A turning point for school food?

    A turning point for school food?
    Apr 17 2026

    Anna Taylor, Executive Director of the Food Foundation, this week talks to Olivia Bailey, the Department of Education Minister responsible for school food in a week of exciting announcements who tells us about her vision for school food and how she hopes changes coming in September, will benefit children and young people.


    For more information on the School Food Project click here and read our latest briefing about school food quality here.


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    18 mins
  • Pod Bites: Why junk food wins at school

    Pod Bites: Why junk food wins at school
    Apr 10 2026

    Nika Pajda, Head of Policy and Research at Bite Back tells us about young people's experiences of school food in England that has emerged from their latest report, Big Food in Schools.


    Click here for the Food Foundation newsletter.

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    10 mins
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