The Food Programme

Feeding the Commons - Part I: Breakfast to Brunch


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Following the food operation at the centre of British politics. Breakfast to Brunch. The Food Programme team go behind the scenes of one of the most historic food operations in the world.

In the first part of this edition, we discover the incredible history of dining in Parliament and meet the people who feed Westminster's 14 thousand pass holders.

8 thousand food transactions can be made here on any working day, and we recorded on one of the busiest - Prime Minister's Questions, one of the first under the new Government.

Presented by Sheila Dillon & produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury.

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