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Monthly Archives: May 2012
Identify the gag – win a prize
While Our Daily Bread is still on iPlayer you have a chance to win a loaf, baked by me (it might not be the world’s greatest loaf, but hey). All you have to do is identify the hidden line from … Continue reading
The Bread of Nations. Our Daily Bread – Episode 4
Welcome to thirteen and a half minutes of pure self indulgence. Don’t get me wrong. So much came out of my travels around Europe that there’s hardly room to draw breath. Nope, it’s just that it simply doesn’t count as … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustow, BBC Radio 4, Bekerei Zimmerman, bread, Bread Museum, Christophe Vasseur, Cologne, Cornell University, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Dan Schickentanz, Dominique Saibron, France, Germany, Goethe, Heinrich Boll, Jan Matejko, Jonathan Kent, Katarzyna Zechenter, Krakow, Muzeum Chleba, Our Daily Bread, Paris, Poland, Professor Steven Kaplan, Radzionków, Stefan Batory, Steven Kaplan, The Bread of Nations, The Polish Bakery, Walter Borchert
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The Bread of Life. Our Daily Bread – Episode 3
Let me tell you something: I had no idea how busy bishops are. Of course it’s no surprise that they have a lot on but they are tyrannised by their diaries. They’re booked up six months ahead. So there was … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC Radio 4, Bishop of Oxford, bread, bread and faith, Christianity, Dan Schickentanz, de Gustibus, Eton College, faith, Islam, John Pritchard, Jonathan Kent, Jonathan Romain, Judaism, Maidenhead Synagogue, Monawar Hussein, Our Daily Bread, real bread, Resurgence, Satish Kumar, sin eater, St Mary's Kidlington
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Bread Kills! Our Daily Bread – Episode 2
There are many things about the issue of bread and health that are absolutely fascinating. For a start bread is one of the first complex, processed foods human beings made. It doesn’t exist in the wild. Even its standard main … Continue reading
A Half-Baked History of the World in Seven Loaves – Our Daily Bread, Episode 1
If you’re here then I guess there’s a good chance you’ve been listening to the first episode of ‘Our Daily Bread’ on Radio 4. Welcome. If you want to complain let me direct you to the customer services department at … Continue reading
Our Daily Bread: Programme Schedule
Next week (May 21st-25th at 13.45 each day) BBC Radio 4 will delve into a fascinating but neglected realm in ‘Our Daily Bread’. With episodes about bread in history, faith, culture, its role in heath and human relationships the series … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC Radio 4, Jonathan Kent, Our Daily Bread, programmes, schedule
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Our Daily Bread (Live, Love, Larf & Loaf)
It’s almost here. Our Daily Bread runs next week on BBC Radio 4 at 1.45pm, just after the World at One. The programme has been almost two years in the making. It was originally commissioned at the end of June … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC Radio 4, bread, Jonathan Kent, Our Daily Bread, radio series
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How Yellow is my Valley
I’m not the greatest fan of oilseed rape. But it does introduce swathes of colour into the landscape. It made me think how stunning it would be if you had fields like these interspersed with green pasture, deep purple bluebells, … Continue reading
The May
We’ve always called it, simply, ‘The May’. Back in the days when friends would come and sleep on sofas and floors, rise at five and stride into the centre of Oxford for a blast of ‘Summer is a cumin in’ … Continue reading
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Tagged apple blossom, Beltane, Calton Hill, chestnut shakes, May, maypoles, oak shakes, treehouse
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