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01A Half-baked History20120521It's the staff of life, the body of Christ, the foundation of Western civilization, the thing we work to put on our table; it's our daily bread.

It was so central to our ancestors that it became a sacred object, a political totem, and infused their language - the difference between feast and famine. Yet now it's almost universally taken for granted.

And because bread was there as a witness to every stage of our transformation, from hunter gatherer to 21st century creatures of the cyber age, it has a lot to tell us.

In Our Daily Bread the journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Kent takes bread as a starting point for an exploration of human history, health, faith, culture and relationships.

A Half-Baked History of the World in Seven Loaves (and a crumb) takes eight slices from twenty five thousand years of bread.

Producer: Jonathan Kent

A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4.

Jonathan Kent looks at a staple we take for granted and explores what it reveals about us.

02Bread Kills20120522Bread Kills' considers the impact food has on human health by looking at two deadly loaves from history. It unveils groundbreaking new research and sets 'real bread' campaigners against the food industry to thrash out the case for and against modern industrialised bread.

Producer: Jonathan Kent

A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4.

Considering the impact food has on health by looking at two deadly loaves from history.

Jonathan Kent looks at a staple we take for granted and explores what it reveals about us

03The Bread Of Life20120523Today's episode brings together a bishop, an imam and a rabbi for an interfaith bake-in and a chance not just to talk about what bread means to their respective religions but, through small moments of mutual recognition, to find out how much they have in common.

Producer: Jonathan Kent

A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4.

Bringing together a bishop, an imam and a rabbi for an interfaith bake-in.

Jonathan Kent looks at a staple we take for granted and explores what it reveals about us

04The Bread Of Nations20120524A journey from Paris to Krakow reveals what bread says about three great European peoples.

Jonathan Kent looks at a staple we take for granted and explores what it reveals about us

05Companionship20120525Jonathan looks at how bread works as a lingua franca of human relations.

Jonathan Kent looks at a staple we take for granted and explores what it reveals about us