Who presents the BBC Radio 4 Food Programme?
"The Food Programme The Food Programme is a BBC Radio 4 programme investigating and celebrating good food, founded by Derek Cooper and currently presented by Sheila Dillon. Sheila Dillon is the normal presenter of the programme, but the programme is, on occasion, presented by a different presenter - for example, the programme presented on 27 May 2012, which was about breakfast, was presented by Tim Hayward. The series is produced by Dan Saladino, who also reports for the programme and presents some episodes. It is a programme about food production, consumption and quality rather than a cookery programme with recipes."
"Matt Tebbutt Matthew Charles ""Matt"" Tebbutt (born 24 December 1973) is a British chef and television food presenter best known for presenting shows such as Channel 4's ""Food Unwrapped"" and ""Drop Down Menu"", the BBC's ""Saturday Kitchen"" and the Good Food channel's ""Market Kitchen"". Matt ran The Foxhunter in Nant-y-derry for many years with his wife, Lisa, but gave it up to focus on his TV career. He does, however, have a restaurant called Shpoons & Forx at the Hilton in Bournemouth. He was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and moved to South Wales when he was only six months"
"Sheila Dillon Sheila Dillon is a British food journalist who began her career writing for the New York food magazine ""Food Monitor"". She is known to listeners of Radio Four as presenter of ""The Food Programme"", on which she has appeared for more than 20 years. Dillon has been the programme's regular presenter since 2001. Dillon was born in Hoghton, Lancashire, and grew up in the 1950s and 1960s. She is from a farming background and went to a Roman Catholic primary school. Her grandfather was a head joiner on the Hoghton Tower Estate. Her mother worked as a weaver"
"Sunday Brunch Sunday Brunch is a British television programme presented by Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer which is broadcast live on Channel 4 on Sunday mornings, that features cookery and interviews with celebrity guests. The programme began on 25 March 2012. It was first announced by Channel 4 in February 2012 after the BBC series ""Something for the Weekend"" ended its seven-year run due to budget cuts. This is the same presenting team as the BBC show, with the exception of Louise Redknapp and Amanda Hamilton. The show runs live for three hours, including advertisements, which is 90 minutes longer"
"Kate Quilton Katie Marie Quilton (born November 1983) is an English television presenter and journalist. She is best known for presenting a number of Channel 4 television series, including ""Food Unwrapped"" since 2012. Whilst at the University of Bristol, she undertook a student equivalent of Morgan Spurlock's ""Super Size Me"", she ate kebabs for one week: breakfast, lunch and dinner. The stunt was picked up by a national paper. Quilton began her career in television while a student and worked for both ITV and the BBC. She went on to work as a broadcast journalist in Somerset for the BBC,"
"and ""Celebrity Masterchef"". She has also appeared as a judge on BBC Two's ""Great British Menu"". She was the Creative Director for the ""Evening Standard""s London Food Month (2017) which won 'Best Debut Event' at the 2017 Event Awards. She has appeared on many British television shows such as ""Very British Problems"" (Channel 4), ""Pointless Celebrities"", ""Have I Got News For You"" (BBC1), ""The Now Show"" (Radio 4), ""The Review Show"" (BBC Two), ""Film 2012"" (BBC1), ""The Culture Show"" (BBC2), ""Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe"" (BBC4), """" (Dave). Since 2016, Dent has presented ""The Untold"" on BBC Radio 4, which has been"
"""Sunday Brunch"", with cookery and interviews with celebrity guests. On 29 September 2014, it was announced that Rimmer and Lovejoy would host a new spin-off series from ""Sunday Brunch"". The show began on 13 October 2014 and aired daily at 10am for 40 episodes. Sunday Brunch Sunday Brunch is a British television programme presented by Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer which is broadcast live on Channel 4 on Sunday mornings, that features cookery and interviews with celebrity guests. The programme began on 25 March 2012. It was first announced by Channel 4 in February 2012 after the BBC series ""Something"
"Gillian McKeith Gillian McKeith (born 28 September 1959) is a Scottish television presenter, nutritionist and writer. She is the former host in the UK of Channel 4's ""You Are What You Eat"" and Granada Television's ""Dr Gillian McKeith's Feel Fab Forever"", and as of 2010 presents ""Eat Yourself Sexy"" on the W Network in Canada. She is the author of several books about nutrition, including ""You Are What You Eat"" (2004), and ""Dr Gillian McKeith's Ultimate Health Plan"" (2006). McKeith advocates a pescetarian diet high in fruits and vegetables, grains, beans, nuts, and tofu, and the avoidance of processed and"
"programmes but increasing Radio 4's coverage of science. Gwyneth Williams Gwyneth Williams (born 14 July 1953) is the controller of BBC Radio 4. She grew up in South Africa and attended St Hugh's College, Oxford. Williams joined the BBC World Service in 1976 as a trainee, having briefly worked as researcher at the Overseas Development Institute. In the 1980s she became producer and duty editor of BBC Radio 4's ""The World Tonight"", and then Deputy Editor, Special Current Affairs Programmes, responsible for broadcasting general elections and other major events. In 1994 as Editor, Policy and Social Programmes she launched current"
"the Westminster Arctic Challenge. This charity event raised awareness and money for several causes. The participants included several members of parliament, representatives of the charities, and a journalist. The participants went on a challenging sponsored trek to the Arctic on husky-powered sledges. Merrilees Parker Merrilees Claire Parker (born 11 August 1971 in Westminster, London) is a British celebrity chef and television presenter. She is mainly known for presenting television programmes combining food and travel (""Planet Food"" and ""Full on Food"") as well as various more traditional cookery programmes. Parker is also renowned for the menu she presented working for the"
"year being for British children to be fed better. He was chosen to deliver the message following his successful ""Jamie's School Dinners"" series. The broadcast also featured actress Jessica Stevenson as a dinnerlady. For the first time, sister channel E4 broadcast an ""alternative to the alternative message"", delivered by Avid Merrion, the creation of comedian Leigh Francis from the series ""Bo' Selecta!"". This message was due to be presented by Khadija Ravat (b. 1973 in Zimbabwe): a British Muslim teacher of Islamic studies who has worn a niqab for ten years. The decision of Channel 4 to have a veiled"
"PM (BBC Radio 4) PM, sometimes referred to as the PM programme to avoid ambiguity, is BBC Radio 4's long-running early evening news and current affairs programme. It is currently presented by Evan Davis and Carolyn Quinn. ""PM"" is broadcast from 5pm to 6pm from Monday to Friday and from 5pm to 5:30pm on Saturdays. On weekdays it is followed by another news programme, the ""Six O'Clock News"". ""PM"" launched on 6 April 1970, with its first presenters, William Hardcastle and Derek Cooper, promising a programme that """"sums up the day, and your evening starts here"""". It made history for"
"Jeremy Vine Jeremy Guy Vine (born 17 May 1965) is a British presenter, broadcaster and journalist. He is best known as the host of his own BBC Radio 2 programme which presents news, views, interviews with live guests and popular music. He is known for his direct interview style, and exclusive reporting from war-torn areas throughout Africa. Vine is also the host of the BBC long-running quiz show ""Eggheads"", taking over from former host Dermot Murnaghan full-time in 2014. Since September 2018 he has presented his own Channel 5 daily current affairs show called ""Jeremy Vine"". In 2015 he was"
"The Kitchen Cabinet (radio show) The Kitchen Cabinet is a BBC Radio 4 programme hosted by Jay Rayner in which members of the public can put questions to a panel of experts about food and cooking. The programme was first broadcast on 7 Feb 2012, it is now in its nineteenth series. It is a Somethin' Else production. The show is a similar format to the long established ""Gardeners Question Time,"" coming from public venues at interesting 'food locations' in Britain in front of an audience. Recently the producer has been Victoria Shepherd and Anna Colquhoun is food consultant for"
"BBC Radio 4, both as a guest in comedy panel shows, as well as in his own shows. Will Smith (comedian) William James Smith (born 8 June 1971) is an English stand-up comedian, screenwriter, novelist, actor and producer. As co-writer and co-producer of the HBO sitcom ""Veep"", he was among the recipients of two Emmys and two Writers Guild of America Awards, and has received nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Episodic Comedy. Though born in Winchester, Hampshire, Smith grew up in Jersey and was educated there at Victoria College. His"
"same name was released at the time, including comments and support from representatives of the food and health industries, charity sector and media including Prue Leith, Tom Aikens, Professor David Haslam GP, Chairman of the National Obesity Forum; Carmel McConnell, Founder, Magic Breakfast; Rob Rees MBE, Chair, The School Food Trust and Sheila Dillon, presenter Radio 4's Food Programme. The report outlined the need for a ‘Food Manifesto for the Under Fives’ which is described as a long term, cross political party plan to improve nutrition for the under-fives and a series of recommendations about what might be included in"
"Edible Adventure"", ""Full On Food"" and the BBC Four series ""Feasts"". Gates has also written and presented two BBC Four documentaries: ""Calf's Head and Coffee: The Golden Age of English Food"" on food history, and ""Can Eating Insects Save the World?"" on entomophagy. He appears as a guest on TV and radio programmes including ""Newsnight"", ""Loose Ends"", ""BBC Breakfast"", ""Sunday Brunch"", ""The Wright Stuff"", ""Iron Chef"", ""Blue Peter"", ""The Alan Titchmarsh Show"" and ""This Morning"". Gates is a panellist on BBC Radio 4's ""Kitchen Cabinet"" and has made two radio documentaries. He also performs live shows and lectures, many at"
"1997 and in 1999 he was awarded an Hon. D.Litt. by Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh. He conceived the idea of BBC Radio 4’s weekly culinary programme ""The Food Programme"", which was first broadcast in 1979. Cooper presented ""PM"" on Radio 4, and his voice-over work included items on ""Tomorrow's World"" and early editions of ""World in Action"". In 2001, the year he retired from ""The Food Programme"", he won a Sony Radio Academy Special Award for ""his pioneering work as one of the first journalists to take the subject of food seriously"". He was diagnosed as suffering from Parkinson's"
"Henrietta Jane Green Henrietta Green (born 27 October 1948) is a British food writer and advocate of the local food movement. Green was born in St John's Wood where she grew up. Her first directory, British Food Finds published in 1987 listed many of these and she now runs www.FoodLoversBritain.com which acts as an up-to-date online directory. In March - April 2009, she featured as a judge on ITV's Taste The Nation in which regional teams from across the UK competed to be crowned winner. She regularly appears on BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme, and writes regularly in Food"
"with seven special programmes in which Great British Menu judge, Matthew Fort, traveled around the UK, selecting the two chefs who will go through to represent their region in the competition. Series 4 began on 30 March 2009 and revolved around cooking a meal for British Service personnel (sailors/marines/soldiers/airmen and women) returning from the War in Afghanistan. A chef from a previous series came back in this series to act as a mentor, giving the two chefs from their region guidance and advice. They were in the kitchen and acted as an unofficial 4th judge. The north region was split"
"4 Stands Up 4 Stands Up is a BBC radio comedy show which has run since December 2007. The programme, which is broadcast on Thursdays at 6:30 pm on BBC Radio 4, contains stand up material from three comedy acts each show, with additional material from the show's host. The host remains consistent throughout the series, and the role has so far been filled by Michael McIntyre, Rhod Gilbert and Chris Addison. The programme is currently in its third series, and falls within a family of comedy programmes produced for BBC Radio 4, including 4 At The Store, 4 In"
"Caz Graham, Sybil Ruscoe and David Gregory-Kumar also present occasionally. Farming Today Farming Today is a radio programme about food, farming, and the countryside broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. It is broadcast each weekday morning (having been recorded the day before) from 5.45 to 5.58, and a longer programme (""Farming Today This Week"") is broadcast on Saturdays between 6.30 and 6.55. Around one million people listen to the programme. ""Farming Today"" began life on 20 September 1960 as a weekly 15-minute programme subtitled ""A review of current affairs in agriculture at home and abroad"" and broadcast"
"in Britain. Tim Lovejoy Timothy Paul Lovejoy (born 28 March 1968) is an English television presenter, best known for hosting Saturday morning football programme ""Soccer AM"" with Helen Chamberlain for over a decade. He presents ""Sunday Brunch"" on Channel 4 and ""BT Sports Panel"" on Saturday mornings on the BT Sport channel. Lovejoy began his television career as a covering VJ for MTV. He then joined Planet 24, working as a researcher for ""The Big Breakfast"" before going on to produce the show. Richard Marson's book celebrating fifty years of ""Blue Peter"" also comments that Lovejoy auditioned as a presenter"
"Inside Health Inside Health is a British radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 discussing health issues which people struggle to understand. The first episode was broadcast on 10 January 2012. It is broadcast on Tuesday evenings at 9pm and repeated on Wednesdays at 3: 30pm. Mark Porter presents the programme. BBC Radio 4 has broadcast health related programmes since its inception in 1967. Mark Porter joined the BBC in 1992 and has been contributing to Radio 4 since. He also presents ""Case Notes"" for the channel. In 2011 Radio 4 controller, Gwyneth Williams commissioned a new nine part series"
"BBC One quiz show. Edwards stated in an interview with the ""Daily Mail"" that he has no sense of smell due to sniffing pure ammonia while in school. Edwards supported green organisation Global Cool in 2010 as part of their Traincation campaign, along with his friend George Lamb. Edwards married ""EastEnders"" and ""Father Brown"" actress Emer Kenny in 2016. Rick Edwards Richard Philip Edwards (born 20 May 1979 in Enfield, London) is an English television presenter who works mainly for Channel 4, E4 and ITV2. Edwards presented T4 for fourteen years, and has also presented ""Tool Academy"", ""Freshly Squeezed"", ""E4"
"and Radio 4's ""The Food Programme"". Her work is characterised by exotic ingredients; Melissa Clark wrote in the ""New York Times"" that her writing, along with that of Yotam Ottolenghi, has ""mastered the art of combining familiar and global flavors in ways that take us just past our collective culinary comfort level"". Sheila Dillon said ""Diana Henry is Jane Grigson's real heir"" on a two-part episode of the BBC Radio 4 ""The Food Programme"" broadcast on 22 Mar 2016. Dillon also said of Henry's writing, ""Her enjoyment of cooking, ingredients and eating just comes off the page"". Of her 2014"
"Simon Bates Simon Philip Bates (born 17 December 1946 in Birmingham) is an English disc jockey and radio presenter. Between 1976 and 1993 he worked at BBC Radio 1, presenting the station's weekday mid-morning show for most of this period. He later became a regular presenter on Classic FM. He hosted the breakfast show on Smooth Radio from January 2011 until March 2014, and took on the same role at BBC Radio Devon from January 2015 until January 2017. He was the first presenter of BBC Two's ""Food and Drink"" programme in 1982. Bates was raised in Suffolk and Shropshire"
"her first mainstream book: ""How to Be a Spiritual Goddess"" (Piatkus). Her next book, ""Meditation Made Easy"" (CICO Books), was later reissued as ""The Little Pocket Book of Meditation"". Stephanie Brookes Stephanie Clare Brookes (born 20 December 1980 in Stoke-on-Trent) is an English food writer and presenter. She has a regular segment on BBC Radio London, where she discusses the latest street food, restaurants and eateries, and the newest food markets. Brookes is the food contributor on the JoAnne Good and Simon Lederman Saturday morning show. There she discusses the street food around London, as well as restaurants and eateries"
"Stefan Gates Stefan Gates (born 19 September 1967) is a British television presenter, author, broadcaster and live-show performer who writes mostly about food and science. He has written eight books about extraordinary food, cooking, and science. He has presented over 20 TV series, mostly for the BBC, including ""Cooking in the Danger Zone"" about unusual food from the world's more dangerous and difficult places. He develops half of these TV series himself, including the CBBC children's food adventure series ""Gastronuts"" and ""Incredible Edibles"". Gates presented BBC One's ""Food Factory"". He wrote and presented the BBC Two series ""E Numbers: An"
"Fi Glover Fiona Susannah Grace ""Fi"" Glover (born February 1969) is a British BBC journalist and presenter who currently presents ""The Listening Project"" for BBC Radio 4, ""Shared Experience"" for BBC Radio 4 and ""My Perfect Country"" for the BBC World Service. Until March 2011, she was the host of BBC Radio 4's ""Saturday Live"", and before that presented BBC Radio 4's ""Broadcasting House"". She previously worked at BBC Radio 5 Live for 7 years. In 2014 she was the host of BBC One's reality history show, ""24 Hours in the Past"". In 1993, Glover started her BBC career as"
"British Bake Off"" to Channel 4 in 2017. The after show was announced in July 2014. Comedian Jo Brand was later announced as the host of the series on 24 July 2014. The show returned for a second run, beginning on 7 August 2015, and for a third series on 24 August 2016. A fourth series began on 31 August 2017 on Channel 4. A fifth series began on 31 August 2018, moving to Friday evenings. Brand and three rotating panelists appear on each episode. The panelists are generally a chef or cooking expert, such as Michel Roux Jr. or"
"Secret Eaters Secret Eaters is a British documentary television series about overeating. It is broadcast on Channel 4 and presented by Anna Richardson. There have so far been 21 episodes spanning three series. In each episode, Anna Richardson meets a group of people; usually a couple, friends or a family, who are overweight. They are then filmed in their homes for a week and followed around by 'private investigators' Cameron Gowlett and Duncan Mee who monitor their every move and record everything they eat. At the end of the week, they are confronted by the presenter about what they eat,"
"Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live is a British cooking show starring Gordon Ramsay. Originally conceived as a one-off episode, Channel 4 later commissioned a full series for late 2008. A Christmas special aired on 25 December 2011 and a second on 25 December 2012. The original episode was part of The Big Food Fight, a January 2008 promotion featuring Channel 4 shows starring Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Gordon Ramsay. On live television, Ramsay invited the entire nation to prepare a three course meal for four with him in just under 60 minutes Ingredients and instructions were"