
Natalie Donovan
@nat_donovan
Radio producer at @BBCFoodProg on @bbcradio4
email: [email protected]
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25-02-2008 12:28:00
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Nominations are still open for Best Drinks Producer 2024 and we want to hear from YOU! 🫵 Make your nominations for the BBC Food and Farming Awards here ➡️ bbc.co.uk/foodawards #SaturdayKitchen Jaega Wise The Food Programme

📣Do you know someone who could be the next BBC Countryfile Young Countryside Champion? Aged 16-24, they will be innovating and working for the future- perhaps in farming, conservation or campaigning. Entries need to be in before 23.59 this Sunday! bbc.co.uk/foodawards

“He makes you think I can do that! He fills me with hope, and the sense this would actually enrich my life, so why not do it?” For #justonethingday Sheila Dillon considers the ways Dr Michael Mosley helped us see how vital good food is for a better life: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…


As the world watches one woman aim for the top of US politics we consider what it takes female chefs to reach the top in fine dining kitchens. How does one become Michelin rated when the odds are stacked against your gender? 11am on @bbcradio4 w/ Sheila Dillon Helene Darroze


Alcohol-free beer now makes up 15% of total sales at Bristol-based brewer Wiper and True | Beautiful Beer The brand's co-founder Michael Wiper believes this figure could soon rise to as much as 50%. Via The Grocer. thegrocer.co.uk/alcohol/wiper-…

‘Food Addiction’? A 3rd helping of spring cabbage? Or the biscuits you only wanted 2 of & are now all gone? What Barry C Smith calls “advanced designed food…very very clever stuff” Dr Jen Unwin Overeaters Anonymous Chris van Tulleken 🏳️🌈 Michael Moss Susan PeirceThompson Maggie Westwater, PhD The Food Programme


Today we’re asking, can food really be addictive? If so, which foods are most problematic? A group of doctors want Ultra-Processed food addiction to be recognised officially. Why? Listen to find out. We are on BBC Radio 4 at 11am and on @bbcsounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Do you eat more than you should and why? That's our question on the #youandyours phone-in this lunchtime. It's a follow up from the excellent The Food Programme exploring the concept of food addiction Sheila Dillon Natalie Donovan


Today @sheiladillon is in search of some fresh food policy ideas with some new MPs. Will there be any consensus on what needs doing? We are on air at 11am on BBC Radio 4 with @SimonforStroud Aphra Brandreth Sarah Dyke MP 🔶 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…



Today if you’re at Abergavenny Food Festival join us at The Dome tent at 2pm for a live recording on how food can do your head in! We have an amazing line up: Heston Blumenthal, Kimberley Wilson CPsychol Dr Ally Jaffee and headteacher Natalie Hackett who is part of Food for Life

Is food doing our heads in? The brain is our hungriest organ, yet we rarely think about how what we eat affects it. It’s the topic today recorded Abergavenny Food Festival - from childhood into later life, policy & what individuals can do. Join us BBC Radio 4 at 11am. #gutbrain


What does the way politicians eat on the campaign trail say about them, if anything? Our programme from the last US election investigates. Sheila Dillon bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Thank you Glasgow for such a fantastic night! Here are our winners from the 2024 BBC Food and Farming Awards.. First up the award for Best Food Producer, which was given to north by sud ouest judged by @sheiladillon and @hughFW #bbcfoodawards
