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From school dinners to sofa snacks – food has a huge part to play in shaping our story – and your favourite celebs have some delicious tales to tell. Join Guardian food critic and her celebrity guests, as she throws the cupboard doors open and chats life through food. Grace’s new Comfort Eating book, inspired by the podcast, is out now. It’s a wonderfully scrumptious, life-affirming journey through the foods that really mean the most to us. On the podcast, expect to hear from guests (actors ...
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The Golden Point Podcast

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Weekly Sport and Pop culture podcast presented by Jackson Cassidy and featuring many guests along the way. Listen in for a light-hearted and possibly educational take on many sports and topics in the world around us.
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Mango: Dead Serious is an action-packed feature-length audio drama written, produced, directed, edited and sound designed by Ben Conley. Storyline: After saving virologist Dr. Charlotte Fox from a vicious attack in the mountains outside Los Angeles, a mine-dwelling recluse named Mango learns a virus has swept the globe causing a worldwide zombie outbreak. In order to continue her work on the vaccine, Dr. Fox must find her uncle whose last known whereabouts were 100 miles away in Joshua Tree. ...
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Hello I’m Sophie Ellis-Bextor and this is my new series Spinning Plates where I speak to busy working women, who also happen to be mothers, about how they make it work. I am a singer and have released 7 albums in-between having my 5 sons who are aged between 1 and 16 so I spin a few plates myself. Being a mother can be the most amazing thing.. but it can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own ambitions. I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. Join me ...
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If you never met me or got to hear my story, most people would just assume that I’m the typical grown version of the white girl next door, all though, I may look the part and yes, I defiantly live a pretty boring life as a mother of two, with a husband and family dog, I have secrets and shame that have held me down for far too long. Real Life Shhh is about reclaiming our light, power, and WORTH! Some say, that I’ve been through hell and back, I say, I’ve just walked through many voids that h ...
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Joining Grace this week is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed comics and host of the award-winning podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me, Joanne McNally. With a number of sell-out shows and tour dates in the US later this year, they discuss how Joanne uses comedy to process difficult periods in her life, how her mum is her favourite cocktail buddy, and what…
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Katherine Ryan joins Grace this week to share her favourite comfort foods. The Canadian comedian, writer, presenter and actor is best known for her deliciously wicked comedy, delivered with a side dish of couture. Katherine shares memories from her past, including her father’s attempts to bring Indian food to Canada via Ireland, her difficult early…
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Kirsten Lane is a freelance music supervisor who negotiates the deals that make it possible to put music into films, TV and adverts. She was the music supervisor for Saltburn and so that is how we met. She is now part of Murder on the Dancefloor’s journey and helped make its inclusion in the film’s soundtrack possible, naked dance and all! We talke…
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Anne Twist is a first time writer and a long-term philanthropist who has two very succesful grown up children. Her eldest is podcaster and writer Gemma Styles, and her youngest is the singer, Harry Styles. I spoke to Anne, not long after she’d become a grandmother for the first time, which sounds like a very special feeling indeed. She’d also just …
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Rachel Jackson is a jewellery designer whose work I particularly love. We even collaborated with on a necklace design once. She discovered her passion for her career while solo travelling in South America where she made a good friend Ali in Brazil and then spent 2 months living with his mum Cinderela (yes that really was her name!) who taught her h…
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Natalie Cassidy is familiar to us all from EastEnders where she's been playing Sonia since the age of 10! When we met she told me about her love of growing up on a TV set, where age meant nothing and her best friend was June Brown, who was 50 years older than her! Natalie is a mum of two daughters, Eliza and Joanie. My heart melted when she describ…
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Bat For Lashes aka Natasha Khan is a singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and a mum to a three year old. She has just brought out her 6th album and this one is inspired by the birth of her daughter and is called The Dream of Delphi. She was pregnant in LA during Covid and the album recalls how she reconnected with nature during that …
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Vicky Gill is the Wardrobe Lead for Strictly Come Dancing, amongst many other things! We first met when I appeared on the show in 2013. She is passionate about merging fashion and performance. I can vouch for the fact that she is supremely talented at making costumes that people can dance in - and her sparkly leotards are still part of my onstage e…
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Michelle Ogundehin is best known as the head judge of Interior Designs Masterclass on BBC 1. It’s a programme I am utterly addicted to, and I was therefore delighted to have been asked to join as a guest judge for semi finals week, this week (TX 23/4/24). I have been a fan of Michelle’s expert eye when it comes to interiors for a long time, having …
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Joining Grace this week is the multi-talented actor, comedian and rapper, Kiell Smith-Bynoe. Long before becoming a household name as the exasperated boyfriend in the hit series Ghosts, Kiell (AKA MC Klayze Flaymz) tells Grace how, as a teenager, he combined his performance skills in the ultimate London arena: the chicken shop. With the taste of su…
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Heather James is best known to us all as the mum of Deborah James, the beautiful bowelbabe, who I interviewed for Spinning Plates 3 years ago. That was the year before her premature death at the age of 40, from bowel cancer. Heather explained how she is grieving but working. Not only working in her day job as a gymnastics teacher, but also doing ev…
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Welsh standup, podcast host and panel show queen, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, brings her finest bowl of scran to Grace’s house. Over this steaming ultra-value concoction, she reveals how her upbringing on a Welsh sheep farm led to a hankering for performance, humour and cheap noodles. Cutting her teeth on the Manchester comedy circuit and finding solace…
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Natasha Bedingfield is a New Zealand-UK singer and songwriter who started out in the business at a similar time to me. Another shared link is that we are both currently on a new adventure with songs we brought out originally in our early 20s! How's that for a coincidence? We've each been on an unexpected and exciting journey with our old songs... b…
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Comfort Eating’s culinary standards might have been permanently raised after two-Michelin-star chef Tom Kerridge’s visit. But he’s not exactly one to show off. Growing up in Gloucester, Tom always wanted to recreate the homely meals he’d find at his local pub or at his mum’s on Sundays. With a brief detour on to the acting stage, Tom started his ca…
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Platinum-selling singer songwriter Cat Burns cosies up with Grace for a warm plate of nosh and some deep chats. The biggest-selling British female artist of 2022, who won three Brit award nominations after her single Go went viral on TikTok, reveals how she went from shy schoolgirl to stadium gigs in just a few years. While Covid put an end to busk…
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Sliding into Grace’s sitting room this week is rising star and multitalented comedian, playwright and musical theatre creator, Daniel Foxx. Bringing his concoction of gunk meant only for solo consumption in the small hours, there’s nowhere left to hide. Buckle up and join Grace and Daniel as they go on a tour of the ins and outs of life in the fast…
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It’s tough presenting BBC radio’s top morning news programme, hosting the nation’s brainiest quiz show and being a devoted dad to four young children. But someone’s got to do it. And that person is none other than the broadcaster Amol Rajan. Having risen through the ranks of the Independent newspaper to be its youngest editor at the age of 29 and n…
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Dropping by this week for a spot of comfort eating is the legendary glamour model turned reality TV star, Katie Price. One of the most photographed and filmed women of our times, splashed across page 3 and lads mags as Jordan 30 years ago, then in six of her own TV series, multiple documentaries and reality shows, everyone thinks they know her. But…
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This week, the world learned of the sad passing of a true British icon, TV cook and hairy biker, Dave Myers. To celebrate his life, we wanted to bring you this episode from January 2022 where Dave tells Grace about – ironically – losing all his hair aged eight, his years as a makeup artist, working in the steelyards of Barrow-in-Furness, and the co…
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One of the UK’s most loved and versatile actors, Kathy Burke, lands in Grace’s sitting room this week. Transitioning from punk teenager, to award-winning actor and then taking on comedy, Kathy has loved almost all of it. She talks to Grace about her career highlights and when her personal life sometimes got in the way, recounting the food that got …
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Toni Nagy is an influencer, content creator, actress, director, screenplay writer, comedian, founder of Cavelight Productions and owner of Side Stream Studio, a creative movement and event space in Vermont. Toni shares her message of creative angles and approaches to serious topics with dance, shaking and comedy as her vehicle in a successful attem…
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Model-turned-standup Michelle De Swarte knows how to make an entrance. And arriving at Grace’s with her eat-it-or-climb-it comfort snack of choice, she doesn’t disappoint. For the woman who left school at 14, signed as a model at 19, fell on the Gucci catwalk a month later, modelled for years in New York afterwards and then changed tack to become a…
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Pulling up a pew at Grace’s house to launch a new season of Comfort Eating is the legendary comedian and author, David Baddiel. With a career spanning 40 years on TV, stage and radio, not to mention coining anthemic football songs and writing multiple bestselling books for adults and children, David has a unique place in our nation’s popular cultur…
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Trinny Woodall is the CEO of the beauty brand Trinny London - she's an entrepreneur, businesswoman and author. She became a household name in the late 90s when she teamed up with Susannah Constantine to present the TV makeover show What Not to Wear. Last year she published her book Fearless about how to find your style and boost your confidence. Sh…
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It can seem like a scary world we live in today, with endless exposure to the media who drives fear down our throats with stories on violence, murders, disease, war, financial crisis, and so and so on, yes, the world can indeed be a scary place to live in, possibly causing you to live in a constant state of fear or anxiety… In this episode of Real …
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Michelle Kennedy is a tech entrepreneur and businesswoman. She is CEO of Peanut App, and mum to two young children, Finlay and Nuala. Michelle started her working life as a corporate lawyer and became interested in tech when she worked for Badoo and then Bumble. She set up Peanut after she gave birth to her first child and felt lonely and isolated.…
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Mango: Dead Serious is an action-packed feature-length audio drama written, produced, directed, edited and sound designed by Ben Conley. Storyline: After saving virologist Dr. Charlotte Fox from a vicious attack in the mountains outside Los Angeles, a mine-dwelling recluse named Mango learns a virus has swept the globe causing a worldwide zombie ou…
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After the holidays I admit that it took me a good 3 weeks of recovery in order to find my rhythm again, during the last week of December and 1st 2 weeks of January I struggled with feelings of disappointment, victimhood, depression and even anger. I actually felt all the other feelings of the spectrum as well leaving me quite tired and confused abo…
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Kelly Hoppen is an interior designer who is renowned for working with big celebrity names and is known for her signature neutral palette. Kelly started her business aged 16 and a half, just afer her father died unexpectedly, and she told me that the feeling she wants to create for her clients is the one she had from her grandmother's home where she…
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Samatha Jackson is an empath and clairaudient who has an open channel to receive messages from spirit, she then writes them out in a letter format called “Letters from the Soul”. Samantha is a beautiful soul sister of mine who radiates wisdom. In this fun, sometimes silly and even spicy episode we discuss what exactly is channeling, how to open up …
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Sophie Darlington is a wildlife cinematographer for shows such as David Attenborough's 'Planet Earth'. She regularly gets up way before dawn in places such as Sri Lanka or East Africa, and sits for over 12 hours a day watching the animal she’s filming, often for weeks at a time. She says it’s the best job in the world but you come back 'rinsed'. Wh…
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Merle and I continue the very informative and transformative conversation about boundaries. Our conversation flows with questions and answers about what merging with another is and how its actually not healthy, we talk about how the few times when merging is needed and the importance of merging with your higher power and how spirituality plays an i…
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Amy Hart is a social media influencer, former reality TV star and podcast presenter. She appeared in Love Island in 2019 (Richard and I are avid viewers!) and she now has an adorable little baby called Stanley. Amy is the only Love Island contestant to have appeared on Question Time and she is a big food bank supporter. Amy worked as cabin crew bef…
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In this special three part series, Merle Yost continues the conversation with me about the importance of boundaries. We dive back into his amazing workshop titled Seven Steps to Powerful Boundaries, in the 1st episode of this 3 part series (episode#12) we were only able to cover the 1st step of his 7 steps (how you became you), now we move into the…
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Gabby Logan is best known as a BBC sports presenter but has also turned her hand to stand up comedy for Sports Relief (2012), to writing her memoir called The First Half, and to ice baths on Freeze Your Fear (2022). She hosts an excellent podcast called Mid-Life in which she, a guest and an expert explore how to navigate the mysterious territory of…
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I was first introduced to the term HD sometime last year by one of my mentors and as soon as I looked up Emma Jensen, my sacral response immediately jump up with excitement with a big “yes, I defiantly want to know more!” After meeting with Emma and learning about myself as a generator, I felt a huge sense of relief for myself and what I thought we…
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As I reflect on my own personal last year in 2023, I think about how much of my life was inspired by the first vision board that I created in January of 2023, I am pleasantly surprised with how my vision board came to life. The truth is prior to this year, I though of vision boards as a little cheesy… now I am a big fan and I guess I am that cheesy…
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If you have goals in mind, this episode is a must, Dr. Ricardo Whyte gives us the secrets of his trade that lead to success in all aspects of life. Dr. Whyte shares with us how he became inspired to become an addiction psychiatrist, a CEO/cofounder of The Master Mind Institute as well as earning a Doctrine in medicine, his inspiration was largely s…
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Alex Head is the founder of Social Pantry which runs food events with the wow factor, as well as a restaruant, and a cafe. I first met Alex this Summer where she was rustling up a banquet twice a day, in a tent at Latitude Festval. Two of the banquets featured food from 'Love, Food, Family' and Richard and I had the much easier job of meeting and g…
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On this episode I welcome back my dear friend and soul sister, Cassidy Green. Cassidy is a professional hypnotist who guided me through a quantum hypnosis session, this session was specifically designed for me and to help me heal and work through my struggles with eating. I was delighted to get to meet one of my higher guides as well as my higher s…
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Sandra Igwe decided to turn a painful experience into purpose. When we spoke recently she told me about some of her difficult experiences both during childbirth and afterwards. These led her to become the founder of The Motherhood Group which supports the Black maternal experience. Sandra has also written My Black Motherhood which demands that Blac…
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I am honored and delighted to have my mother in law (well technically my step mother in law) on the show to discuss her sobriety journey in an industry that is known for the overindulgence of drugs and alcohol. Sigute is an immigrant from Lithuania who has broke the norm of ageism and naysayers who tell women especially, that they are past their pr…
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