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Time Shift Farm to Pharma: The Rise and Rise of Food Science (30th April 2009) [PDTV (XviD)]

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Channel: BBC 4 (via DVB-T)
Date & Time: 30th April 2009, 9:00 p.m.

Programme Description (source: [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k36fj[/url]):

Documentary which explores the history of British food science, taking a fascinating voyage through over a century of petri-dishes, vitamins and E-numbers.

The connection between food manufacturers and the white coat brigade is nothing new. One hundred and fifty years before Heston Blumenthal, Birmingham chemist Alfred Bird was reinventing custard because his wife had an allergy to eggs.

By the 1930s, George Orwell was already complaining about the chemical by-products that the British people were eating, but when war gave scientists a chance to remake the British diet the improvement in the nation's health was extraordinary.

Charting the growing role that food science has played in our daily lives, we meet Tony Blake, the food scientist who pioneered instant soup for Batchelors, and we learn about biochemist Jack Drummond, the tragic mastermind of British food in the Second World War, who died alongside his family as in a mysterious murder.

We discover how vegetarian product Quorn was invented to prevent a global food crisis and how breakthroughs in flavour chemistry helped create the day-glo processed foods of the 1970s. We recall Margaret Thatcher's early career as a food scientist and find out why there was no such thing as a free lunch when it came to the promise of fat-free snacks.



Technical Information:

--- File Information ---
File Name: Time Shift - Farm to Pharma - The Rise and Rise of Food Science.avi
File Size: 466 MB (488,477,456 bytes)
Duration (mm:ss): 58:54

--- Video Information ---
Video Codec Name: XviD 1.2.1
frame Size: 624 x 352 pixels (AR: 1.773)
frames per Second: 25
Video Bitrate: 964 kbps
frame Quality: 0.176 bpp

--- Audio Information ---
Audio Codec: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Audio Bitrate: 128 kbps [2 channel(s)] VBR


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