The Food Programme

School Food: Re-imagined


Listen Later

What is the current school meal model, how well is it working and how has the pandemic highlighted existing problems and created new ones?

More importantly, given the very public problems that have cropped up in recent months, how can the system be improved and made more sustainable and resilient?

Sheila Dillon brings together a panel of school food visionaries to re-imagine the way we provide meals to pupils across the UK, and consider whether and how we could change the system for the better.

They are Jeanette Orrey - a former dinner lady and winner of the BBC Food and Farming Awards Cook of the Year, now a school meals campaigner and co-founder of Food for Life, an organisation focused on transforming school food and food culture; Nicole Pisani - a former head chef at Yotam Ottolenghi’s London restaurant NOPI, now a school chef and co-founder of the organisation Chefs in Schools, bringing together chefs and teachers to change attitudes to school meals and food education; and Christina Adane - a food poverty activist and chair for the Youth Board of BiteBack2030, a youth-led movement on a mission to fight child obesity and give young people access to healthy food and lifestyles.

The panel also hear from past programmes that featured schools doing something special around food provision: St Winnow’s School in Cornwall, Logie Primary School in Moray and Washingborough Academy in Lincolnshire.

Presented by Sheila Dillon

Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Lucy Taylor

Photo: Washingborough Academy's Chef Michael Richardson prepares meal boxes for delivery during the pandemic (2020).

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

The Food ProgrammeBy BBC Radio 4

  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6

4.6

240 ratings


More shows like The Food Programme

View all
In Our Time by BBC Radio 4

In Our Time

5,445 Listeners

Woman's Hour by BBC Radio 4

Woman's Hour

396 Listeners

Global News Podcast by BBC World Service

Global News Podcast

7,653 Listeners

Business Daily by BBC World Service

Business Daily

530 Listeners

Inside Health by BBC Radio 4

Inside Health

108 Listeners

More or Less: Behind the Stats by BBC Radio 4

More or Less: Behind the Stats

894 Listeners

Ramblings by BBC Radio 4

Ramblings

156 Listeners

World Business Report by BBC World Service

World Business Report

288 Listeners

Open Country by BBC Radio 4

Open Country

89 Listeners

Gardeners' Question Time by BBC Radio 4

Gardeners' Question Time

282 Listeners

Desert Island Discs by BBC Radio 4

Desert Island Discs

2,007 Listeners

Newshour by BBC World Service

Newshour

1,054 Listeners

The Life Scientific by BBC Radio 4

The Life Scientific

228 Listeners

The Kitchen Cabinet by BBC Radio 4

The Kitchen Cabinet

107 Listeners

All in the Mind by BBC Radio 4

All in the Mind

60 Listeners

The Food Chain by BBC World Service

The Food Chain

344 Listeners

Newscast by BBC News

Newscast

627 Listeners

Evil Genius with Russell Kane by BBC Sounds

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

357 Listeners

Sliced Bread by BBC Radio 4

Sliced Bread

149 Listeners

Elis James and John Robins by BBC Radio 5 Live

Elis James and John Robins

326 Listeners

Good Food by Good Food

Good Food

37 Listeners

You're Dead to Me by BBC Radio 4

You're Dead to Me

3,057 Listeners

Sport's Strangest Crimes by BBC Radio 5 Live

Sport's Strangest Crimes

93 Listeners

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent by The Guardian

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

211 Listeners

Uncanny by BBC Radio 4

Uncanny

596 Listeners

Dua Lipa: At Your Service by BBC Sounds

Dua Lipa: At Your Service

1,000 Listeners

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley by BBC Radio 4

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

509 Listeners

Believe in Magic by BBC Sounds

Believe in Magic

608 Listeners

Young Again by BBC Radio 4

Young Again

50 Listeners

The Global Story by BBC World Service

The Global Story

121 Listeners

Miss Me? by BBC Sounds

Miss Me?

271 Listeners

The History Podcast by BBC Radio 4

The History Podcast

29 Listeners

Rory Stewart: The Long History of... by BBC Radio 4

Rory Stewart: The Long History of...

104 Listeners

What's Up Docs? by BBC Radio 4

What's Up Docs?

103 Listeners

Havana Helmet Club by BBC Sounds

Havana Helmet Club

4 Listeners