Family ties
Dec 25, 2025•26 min
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Episode description
Food is at the centre of family life – on ordinary days, in the everyday rush, during the dramas, and the quieter moments too.
In this episode, Ruth Alexander looks back at some of The Food Chain's most moving and intimate moments of 2025, all revealing the power food has to bind people together.
From the first meal taken by a foster child in an unfamiliar home to the couple cooking together for the first time in their lives after a dementia diagnosis, these stories show how food has the capacity to strengthen family bonds and how its absence can shape a life just as deeply.
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Producer: Rumella Dasgupta.
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