Investigating every aspect of the food we eat

Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits that might change the way we think about food, cooking and eating. An expert panel answers audience questions.

We take your questions about life, Earth and the universe to researchers hunting for answers at the frontiers of knowledge.

The Inquiry gets beyond the headlines to explore the trends, forces and ideas shaping the world.

Explorations in the world of science.

We obsess about food to learn more about people. The Sporkful isn't for foodies, it's for eaters. Hosted by Dan Pashman of Cooking Channel's You're Eating It Wrong and the book Eat More Better. A Stitcher Production.

Brilliant solutions to the world’s problems. We meet people with ideas to make the world a better place and investigate whether they work.

Brighten your week with the latest BBC Radio 4 comedy, introduced by Darren Harriott.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas

Food with a side of science and history. Every other week, co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley serve up a brand new episode exploring the hidden history and surprising science behind a different food- or farming-related topic, from aquaculture to ancient feasts, from cutlery to chile peppers, and from microbes to Malbec. We interview experts, visit labs, fields, and archaeological digs, and generally have lots of fun while discovering new ways to think about and understand the world t ...