Episode summary: Sheila Dillon explores how food habits are formed in the early years, and how parents and nurseries are coping with a food environment full of unhealthy ultra-processed food. Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced by Sophie Anton for BBC Audio in Bristol

Episode summary: Tyler’s two-thirds utilitarian, and Peter’s full on. Do either of them have the proportions right?

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Episode summary: On Background: Effective Altruism Still Has Friends

Episode summary: The Pushkin Prize for Egregiously Deceptive Self-Promotion

Episode summary: Do Spotify’s algorithms make a listener’s music taste, or does taste make the algorithm? Nick Seaver embedded himself as an ethnographer at a music recommendation software firm to learn about the the very real way very specific people influence the algorithms that power our automate...

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Episode summary: John is one of the food world’s most recognisable faces. He grew up in Melbourne, Australia, starting his career in the world of food at the age of 16.He credits his love of food and passion for cooking to his grandmother, who raised him from the age of 4. After apprenticeships at s...

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Episode summary: How courtroom artists became the preferred way to document trials

Episode summary: Have Beans, Will Travel

Episode summary: From Nobel winners to great innovators, Dan Saladino explores the history of prize-winning food ideas that changed the world, including researchers who uncovered the secrets of our stomachs to the plant breeds transforming the future of wheat. Nominations are now open for this year’...

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Episode summary: Described as the Agatha Christie of the adoption world, Ariel Bruce works on ITV’s Long Lost Family and specialises in finding people affected by adoption, using her unique skills as a social worker and her background in care to reunite families all over the world. Born in London, A...

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