Sheila Dillon
2025
Sheila Dillon is a British food journalist and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme, a role she has held since 2001. Dillon began her career as an editor and writer at the New York-based magazine Food Monitor. She joined The Food Programme in 1987, and her investigative work has earned numerous awards, including the Glaxo Science Prize and the Caroline Walker Award. In 2008, she received an honorary doctorate from City University for her contributions to food journalism
My Sessions
Bringing Beans and Pulses back home
Sheila Dillon
Henry Dimbleby
Amelia Christie-Miller
Andrew Howard
Josiah Meldrum
Legumes can fix nitrogen, support biodiversity and enhance soil structure and have an incredible impact on our diets. But we eat far too few in the UK, and those we do eat are mostly imported. The session will look at the benefits and barriers of eating more pulses for farmers, the soil, planet and human […]