Media Coverage

The Real Bread Campaign continues to attract a lot of interest from the media. Here are just a few highlights of the coverage we have generated so far.

2012
2011
2010
2009
2008

2012

The Citizen - 24 January
Digging in to homegrown loaves

Channel 4 Food - 23 January
Tom Herbert: the face of Bake Your Lawn

This is Local London (40 editions around London) - 23 January
Real Bread Campaign launches bake your lawn challenge

News Shopper (editions in 6 London boroughs) - 23 January
Real Bread Campaign launches bake your lawn challenge

Yorkshire Post - 23 January
Making bread can be an education

The Times - 19 January
From seed to sandwich (online version only available to subscribers)

British Baker - 17 January
Real Bread Campaign supports pupil education

Fork - 5 January
The Rise of Real Bread

2011

Horticulture Week - 21 December
Garden Organic launches real bread campaign

British Baker - 16 December 2011
2011 review of the year

The Foodie Bugle - 15 December 2011
The Real Bread Campaign

BBC2 - 5-7 December 2011
The Big Bread Experiment

The Metro - 30 November 2011
An honest crust: How to make a great British loaf of bread

The Guardian - 25 November 2011
What you like: Guardian Weekend readers' tips

Soil Association - 24 November 2011
Andrew Whitley receives a Special Judges' Award in the BBC Food & Farming Awards 2011

British Baker - 15 November 2011
Real Bread champion nominated for award

BBC2 - 14 November 2011
The Great British Food Revival: Michel Roux Jr on Real Bread

guardian.co.uk - 13 November 2011
Teacher Network newsletter: lessons in loaf, anti-bullying and brilliant blogs

Food Manufacture - 1 November 2011
Industrial ideals
(PDF © William Reed Business Media Ltd, reproduced here by kind permission)

Savista Magazine - 1 November 2011
A sense of community with the Real Bread Campaign

Cost Sector Catering - 31 October 2011
Caterers urged to put Real Bread on The Menu (also on LACA.co.uk)

BBC Food - 20 October 2011
The glamorous life of an artisan baker

Bakery and Snacks - 19 October 2011
Federation of Bakers and Real Bread Campaign at odds over labelling of bread processing aids

Hackney Gazette - 17 October 2011
Hackney children become masterbakers thanks to Real Bread Campaign

You & Yours (BBC Radio 4) - 3 October 2011
Chris Young talking to Julian Worricker about The Real Bread Loaf Mark, plus Dan & Johanna at The Handmade Bakery (from 24m 20s)

BBC Radio Oxford - 3 October
Chris Young talking to Malcolm Boyden about The Real Bread Loaf Mark (from 1h 8m 30s)

BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire - 3 October 2011
Chris Young talking to Annie Othen about The Real Bread Loaf Mark (from 1h 30m 30s)

Food Manufacture - 3 October
Criticism builds for Sustain campaign

BBC Radio London - 2 October 2011
Richard Johnson talking to Nikki Bedi about The Real Bread Loaf Mark (from 2h 20m)

Open for Business (BFM radio Malaysia) - 20 September 2011
The craft of baking Real Bread

You & Yours (BBC Radio 4) - 02 Septemeber 2011
Chris Young interviewed re: low salt in Real Bread (from 15 mins in)

British Baker - 26 August 2011
Reporting in: Working for an honest crust

The Grocer - 20 August 2011
Bakers urged to put ‘real bread’ mark on additive-free loaves

Inter TV (Kiev) - 13 August 2011
В Британии борются против чорливудского хлеба
(In Britain, struggling against the grain 'chorlivudskogo')

Patissier (Korea) - 1 August 2011
Five page article on the rise of Real Bread in the UK

The Food Programme (Radio 4) - 31 July & 1 August 2011
Yeast

On FM 101.4 - 28 July 2011
20 minute interview with Chris Young of the Real Bread Campaign

The Watford Observer -14 July 2011
Two rival bakery factions faced off to prove their loaf is the upper crust at an annual village day in Chorleywood

The Sunday Times: Style - 10 July 2011
Bread is Heaven

BBC Three Counties Radio - 9 July 2011
Gaz Wesley interviews the Campaign's Chris Young

The Guardian - 2nd July 2011
Dan Lepard's spelt and corn batch rolls

The Daily Telegraph - 28 June 2011
The best thing since sliced bread

You (The Mail on Sunday) - 26 June 2011
Things you didn't know about bread
(PDF © 2011 Associated Newspapers Ltd)

The Sunday Telegraph - 19 June 2011
Does sliced bread make you feel bloated?

British Baker - 16 June 2011
Daily Mail takes modern bread quality to task

The Daily Mail - 15 June 2011
Is your bread making you ill? 100 years after the Daily Mail campaigned to improve the British loaf, how today's version is just as bad

BBC Breakfast - 7 June 2011
A feature by David Sillito in response to us saying Pappy Birthday to the Chorleywood 'Bread' Process

The Ecologist - 11 May 2011
TAKE ACTION: Make a loaf of bread for the Real Bread Campaign

National Trust Magazine - 1 May 2011 (summer issue)
The National Crust

British Baker - 18 April 2011
Real Bread Campaign in beer and loaf link up

Morning Advertiser - 18 April 2011
Everards’ artisan pub push

The Wheat Movie (blog) - 17 April 2011
Real Bread in Great Britain

The Ecologist - 15 April 2011
CAMPAIGN HERO: Nick Mole, Pesticide Action Network

The Daily Telegraph - 30 March 2011
The truth about your supermarket loaf

Radio New Zealand - 29 March 2011
Bread campaigner decries 'loaf tanning salons'

The Daily Mail - 28 March 2011
Fresh supermarket rip-off? The bakery products that can be up to a year old

The Sunday Times - 27 March 2011
Ah, the just baked smell of year old bread

The Daily Mail - 26 March 2011
Just how fresh is fresh food at the supermarket?

The Scotsman - 12 March 2011
Reclaiming our daily bread from supermarkets requires time, a little science and passion

The Times - 10 March 2011
Save bread, grow your own loaves

BBC Food Blog - 9 March 2011
The lost art of bread making

BBC2 - 9 March 2011
The Great British Food Revival: Real Bread

The Observer - 27 February 2011
The Innovator: Chris Young, bread evangelist

The Daily Telegraph - 15 Feburay 2011
Britain's dreadful bread shows signs of improvement

British Baker - 1 February 2011
Real bread option urged

The Daily Telegraph - 13 January 2011
Joy of sourdough

The London Evening Standard - 13 January 2011
The Smart Shopper: bread of heaven

2010

British Baker - 14 December 2010
Real Bread Campaign launches beginners' guide

The Food Programme - 26 November 2010 (repeated 25 December)
Richard Bertinet named BBC food personality of the year at the Food & Farming Awards

Woman's Hour - 29 October 2010
Real Bread

The Guardian - 3 October 2010
Can I buy bread and be green?

British Baker - 13 August 2010
For the love of Lammas

The London Evening Standard - 30 July 2010
The Smart Shopper: way above the breadline

The Daily Mail - 28 July 2010
The unpalatable truth about supermarket bread

You & Yours (BBC Radio 4) - 21 July 2010
Live interviews on the Tesco/ASA ruling with Andrew Whitley and Chris Young of the Real Bread Campaign

The Guardian - 21 July 2010
Tesco rebuked by ASA over bread advert claims

The Daily Mail - 21 July 2010
The great fresh bread swindle: Tesco ad that 'misleads' shoppers is banned

The Daily Telegraph - 21 July 2010
Tesco warned over 'misleading' bread advert

The Independent - 21 July 2010
Half-baked, the verdict on Tesco's bread boasts

Sky News - 21 July 2010
Tesco Rapped For Cooking Up Its Bread Ad

Retail Week - 21 July 2010
Tesco rapped for 'misleading' bread ad

Campaign - 21 July 2010
Tesco in-store bakery ad falls foul of food campaign complaint

British Baker - 21 July 2010
Real Bread’s Tesco complaint upheld

The Daily Telegraph - 20 July 2010
The Kitchen Thinker: Real Bread

The Guardian - 12 June 2010
The family that bakes together…

The Daily Telegraph - 29 March 2010
Supermarket bakeries 'just loaf tanning salons'

The Grocer - 29 March 2010
Bread makers slam supermarket bakeries

The Daily Mail - 27 March 2010
Supermarket bakeries 'are just loaf tanning salons'

British Baker - 2 February 2010
Jamie Oliver’s head baker teams up with Real Bread Campaign

2009

The Food Programme, BBC Radio 4 - 27 December 2009
Bread skills, featuring several members and friends of the Real Bread Campaign

The Grocer- 16 December 2009
Hovis cleared by ASA following Real Bread Campaign complaint

The Food Programme, BBC Radio 4 - 15 November 2009
Sheila Dillon talks to Real Bread Campaign co-founder, Andrew Whitley

Radio New Zealand - 13 November 2009
Simon Morton interviews Andrew Whitley

The Times - 30 July 2009
Masterclass - how to bake your own bread

The Independent 13 June 2009
Use your loaf to bring bread back to basics

The Guardian - 11 May 2009
The Best of the Fest

Vegansociety.com – 29 April 2009
Enzymes and Bread

British Baker 28April 2009
Is ‘clean label’ clean?

Channel4.com - 28 April 2009
Producing the humble slice

The Metro - 27 April 2009
Most bread ‘not fit for vegetarians’

Bakery and Snacks - 24 April 2009
Pressure group calls for enzyme labelling on packaged bread

channel4.com - 24 March 2009
Bread Matter: a Real Food Campaign

thehandmadebakery.com - 3 February 2009
Jam tomorrow

efrc.com - 12 January 2009
Real Bread Campaign

organicinform.org - 12 January 2009
National Real Bread Campaign

2008

British Baker - 12 December 2008
Real Bread Campaign starts

greenpartyblogs.co.uk - 21 August 2008
Real Bread Campaign

The Guardian- 17 April 2008
Crust of living

The Guardian - 16 April 2008
Against the grain

howies.co.uk
Why we need a Real Bread Campaign

Real Bread Campaign