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 Grace Dent and celebrity guests as she throws the cupboard doors open and chats life through food. Expect to hear from guests (actors from TV, movie, theatre and film; sportspeople, comedians, chefs…) such as: Katie Price, Natalie Cassidy, Kathy Burke, Jamie Laing, Jon Ronson, Shirley Ballas, Nadiya Hussain, James Norton, Graham Norton, Mi ...
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Scott Bryan, Hayley Campbell and Naga Munchetty take you through the best (and worst) new TV and streaming shows.
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Hello friends! Welcome to Gentleman Jack Crack: A Queer AF Podcast. Join hosts Candice & Terrance as they deep dive into this spectacular new show from BBC & HBO. Explicit language & ridiculous hi-jinks should always be expected. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Witch Wave is a podcast for bewitching conversation about magic, creativity, and culture. On each episode, host Pam Grossman speaks with a leading visionary about art and Craft.
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Leila Nathoo to talk about The Perfect Couple, Slow Horses and Grace.By BBC Radio 5 Live
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Kaos | The Zelensky Story | Colin From Accounts
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Naga Munchetty to talk about the return of an Aussie comedy hit, and more!By BBC Radio 5 Live
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Revisited – S3 E4: Big Zuu, rapper and TV personality
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The Comfort Eating team is taking a break. So for the next few weeks, we’re looking back at a few of our favourite episodes. In this episode of Comfort Eating, double Bafta winner Big Zuu goes round to Grace’s house for a plate of his ultimate comfort food. They talk about his ‘scandalous’ mother, growing up between extreme wealth and poverty, and …
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Steffan to talk about Sherwood, Dating Naked, and KlitschkoBy BBC Radio 5 Live
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Revisited – S3 E12: Natalie Cassidy, actor
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The Comfort Eating team is taking a break. So for the next few weeks, we’re looking back at a few of our favourite episodes. In this episode of Comfort Eating, Eastenders actor and all-round hun Natalie Cassidy pops over for a chat with Grace. She and Grace remember the 90s London club scene, discuss the perils of having a fitness DVD, and how bein…
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Merseyside Detectives | Made in Korea | Kidnapped
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Steffan to talk about Merseyside Detectives, Made in Korea, and Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story.By BBC Radio 5 Live
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The Comfort Eating team is taking a break. So for the next few weeks, we’re looking back at a few of our favourite episodes. In this episode of Comfort Eating with Grace Dent, comedian Nish Kumar tells Grace about some of the most important moments in his life – and the comfort food that saw him through them. They lament the ‘golden years’ of Pizza…
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Love is Blind UK | The Body Next Door | Daddy Issues
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Rima to talk about Love is Blind UK, The Body Next Door and Daddy Issues.By BBC Radio 5 Live
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The Comfort Eating team is taking a break. So for the next few weeks, we’re looking back at a few of our favourite episodes. In this episode of Comfort Eating, the pop star Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem, drops into Grace’s kitchen. Their riotous afternoon includes ‘northern women eating carbs’, the joy of buying expensive jumpers, and some u…
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S7, Ep8: bonus episode – a few of the tastiest bits from all seven series
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This week, Grace takes us on a trip down memory lane to hear some of the best bite-sized tidbits of food tales from seven glorious seasons of Comfort Eating, featuring the likes of Rafe Spall, Scarlett Moffatt and Russell T Davies. We hear the stories of Jay Blades’ school pudding obsession and Russell Tovey’s teenage love of brussels sprouts, and …
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This week, Grace is joined by east London’s plant-based princess Bimini who shot to fame in 2021, after the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, where they captivated the BBC audience with quippy one liners, high fashion runway looks, and death drops. Although Bimini didn’t snatch the crown, they remain the most-followed UK contestant. Since fil…
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Those About To Die | Piglets | The Turkish Detective
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Gethin to talk about Those About To Die, Piglets and The Turkish Detective.By BBC Radio 5 Live
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Grace welcomes the legendary DJ, producer and founder of Soul II Soul, Jazzie B, to the podcast. Over a bowl of ‘yellow’ – one of his childhood comfort foods –Jazzie takes Grace on a journey from playing his sound system, aged 12, at a silver jubilee street party for the Queen, to finding inspiration on tour in Japan and Korea, and on to Buckingham…
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The Jetty | Supacell | A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Gethin to talk about The Jetty, Supacell, and A Good Girl's Guide to MurderBy BBC Radio 5 Live
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Joining Grace this week is actor and director David Harewood, who found global fame in the hit CIA-thriller Homeland 13 years ago and hasn’t stopped working since. David was born and raised in Small Heath, Birmingham, where he lived with his older siblings and Barbadian parents. He tells Grace about how his mum kept the flavours of the West Indies …
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S7, Ep 4: Allan Mustafa, actor and comedian
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Allan Mustafa joins Grace to share the dish he turns to for comfort food. Allan shot to fame playing MC Grindah in People Just Do Nothing, his Bafta award-winning, semi-autobiographical mockumentary, which was inspired by his early life in south-west London. Allan talks about growing up with his Czech mum and Kurdish dad and eating the ultimate fus…
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#133 - Suranne Jones, Bewitching BAFTA-winning Actor
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This season finale of The Witch Wave features Suranne Jones, the award-winning English actor, producer, and series creator. She’s been nominated for several awards for acting and won a BAFTA for her starring role in the hit series Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned. Some highlights from her decades long television career include starring roles in Gentl…
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Actor Golda Rosheuvel joins Grace this week to share what she eats when the wigs are off. Golda is best known for her role as the formidable Queen Charlotte in the record-breaking Netflix series Bridgerton. Before Bridgerton fame, Golda’s breakthrough role was playing a female Othello at the Liverpool Everyman, rooting herself as an actor who chall…
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Douglas is Cancelled | Outrageous Homes | I Am: Celine Dion
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Nihal to talk about Douglas is Cancelled, Outrageous Homes and I Am: Celine DionBy BBC Radio 5 Live
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Suranne Jones: Investigating Witch Trials| Under The Bridge | Perfect Match
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Nihal to talk about Suranne Jones: Investigating Witch Trials, Under The Bridge and Perfect MatchBy BBC Radio 5 Live
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S7, Ep 2: Joanne McNally, comedian and podcaster
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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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#132 - Cat Willett, "Women of Tarot" Author and Illustrator
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Cat Willett is a Brooklyn-based artist. She has written, illustrated, and published two full-length books. The first is The Queen of Wands: The Story of Pamela Colman Smith, the Artist Behind the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck. Her newest book, Women of Tarot, An Illustrated History of Divinators, Card Readers, and Mystics is out next week. Cat is fascinat…
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S7, Ep 1: Katherine Ryan, comedian and writer
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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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Becoming Karl Lagerfeld | Skydive: The Murder Plot | On Thin Ice: Putin V Greenpeace
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Nihal to talk about Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, Skydive: The Murder Plot, On Thin Ice: Putin V Greenpeace.By BBC Radio 5 Live
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Comfort Eating with Grace Dent is back for more
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Comfort Eating with Grace Dent is back for a seventh course on 11 June. Join her and celebrity guests as they reveal the comfort foods that have seen them through their lives in series sevenBy The Guardian
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Eric | Queenie | Lost Boys & Fairies
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Nihal to talk about Eric, Queenie and Lost Boys & FairiesBy BBC Radio 5 Live
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#131 - Kimberly Rodriguez, Author of "Incantations Embodied"
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Kimberly Rodriguez (@poetagoddess) is a first-generation Indigenous Mexican artist and writer based in the Bay Area, CA. Her art reflects her journey toward reclaiming her indigenous roots and exploring different forms of self-expression. As an artist, Kimberly is deeply committed to creating work that is inclusive and accessible to all. She believ…
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Robson Green into the Amazon | Buying London | Bay of Fires
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Scott, Hayley and Nihal are back together to review the week’s TV – and talk about sloths. For some reason.By BBC Radio 5 Live
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#130 - Pati Dubroff, Glamour Goddess
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Pati Dubroff is an iconic, world-renowned makeup artist. She has worked with such glamazons as Margot Robbie, Kirsten Dunst, Elizabeth Olsen, Laura Dern, Christy Turlington, Priyanka Chopra, and Emma Watson to name but a few. She’s also collaborated with such photographic phenoms as Annie Leibovitz, Peter Lindbergh, and Tom Munro, and her artistry …
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The Gathering | Dark Matter | The Fortune Hotel
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Nihal to talk about The Gathering, Dark Matter, The Fortune Hotel.By BBC Radio 5 Live
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Doctor Who | The Tattooist of Auschwitz | Hollywood Con Queen
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Nihal Arthanayake to talk about Doctor Who, The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Hollywood Con Queen.By BBC Radio 5 Live
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#129 - Christopher Marmolejo, Author of "Red Tarot"
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Christopher Marmolejo is a Brown, queer, and trans writer, diviner, and educator. They use divination to promote a literacy of liberation, and their new book Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy is an in-depth exploration of how tarot can be a tool of freedom, magical interrogation, and energetic support for anyone, and particularly…
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Miriam: Death of a Reality Star | Shardlake | Dead Boy Detectives
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Scott Bryan and Siobhan Synnot join Nihal to talk about Miriam: Death of a Reality Star, Shardlake and Dead Boy DetectivesBy BBC Radio 5 Live
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Red Eye | Michael Palin in Nigeria | The Jinx: Part Two
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Scott Bryan and Siobhan Synnot join Nihal Arthanayake to talk about Red Eye, Michael Palin in Nigeria and The Jinx: Part TwoBy BBC Radio 5 Live
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#128 - Ron Regé, Jr., Cosmological Cartoonist
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Ron Regé, Jr. is a Los Angeles-based cartoonist who began drawing and self-publishing comics in the early 1990s in Cambridge, MA. Though he came out of zine culture and the underground comics scene, his work took a distinctly mystical turn thanks to a spiritual awakening he had the early 2000s. From that point on, his comics turned cosmic, explorin…
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S6, Ep 10: Kiell Smith-Bynoe, actor and comedian
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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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Blue Lights | Baby Reindeer | Danny Dyer: How To Be A Man
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Nihal Arthanayake to talk about Blue Lights, Baby Reindeer and Danny Dyer: How To Be A Man.By BBC Radio 5 Live
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S6, Ep 9: Kiri Pritchard-McLean, comedian
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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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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Nihal to talk about Scoop, The Regime and The Cuckoo.By BBC Radio 5 Live
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#127 - Jodi Wille, Director of "Welcome Space Brothers" and "The Source Family"
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Jodi Wille is a director and producer of the critically acclaimed documentary The Source Family and her brand new feature documentary Welcome Space Brothers which is about The Unarius Academy of Science. Her work explores people whose extraordinary true stories and creations leave us with new ways of seeing, and she has a special interest in so-cal…
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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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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Nihal to talk about This Town, Renegade Nell and Big Mood.By BBC Radio 5 Live
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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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Passenger | Gentleman in Moscow | Josh Must Win
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Nihal to talk about Passenger, Gentleman in Moscow and Josh Must Win.By BBC Radio 5 Live
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#126 - Penny Slinger, Surrealist Sorceress
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Penny Slinger is a Los Angeles–based artist whose work investigates the feminine, the magical and the erotic. In the late 1960s, her encounters with the work of Max Ernst initiated an enduring involvement with both the Surrealist movement and the medium of collage. Her groundbreaking publications such as 50% The Visible Woman (1971) and An Exorcism…
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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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3 Body Problem | Carrie Fisher | Palm Royale
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Nihal to talk about 3 Body Problem, Palm Royale and A Life in Ten Pictures with Carrie Fisher.By BBC Radio 5 Live
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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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Kin | Dead Hot | The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
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Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell join Nihal to talk about Kin, Dead Hot and The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin.By BBC Radio 5 Live
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#125 - Robin Ha, "The Fox Maidens" Graphic Novelist
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Robin Ha is an award-winning author and illustrator of several graphic novels including the best-selling comic recipe book Cook Korean!: A Comic Book With Recipes and the illustrated memoir Almost American Girl which is about her move from South Korea to America when she was 14. Robin’s new graphic novel, The Fox Maidens is her first foray into fic…
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