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Sue Perkins: An hour or so with...

2: Mary Berry

Sue Perkins: An hour or so with...

Audioboom Studios

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts, Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Mary Berry is a national treasure, best known to younger generations from ‘The Great British Bake Off’ but Mary’s first TV series was broadcast in the early 70s.

Her first book ‘The All Colour Cookbook’ sold over 2 million copies and is considered one of the best cook books ever published.

Mary discusses her career, family life and her experience on Bake Off with Sue.

The music in this episode is by ‘Waiting For Smith’.

Produced by Dan Quick

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to

0:02.0

Albe's the answer.

0:03.0

Which supermarket is both which, cheapest supermarket

0:06.0

2022, and good housekeeping reader's favorite

0:09.0

supermarket, 2023.

0:11.0

spoiler alert, it ain't asder.

0:13.0

Yes, Aldi is the answer.

0:16.0

Shop at Aldi and see if you could save your family fortunes. She's the nation's sweetheart, she's a national treasure. She is the mother of cakes.

0:30.0

But to me, she'll always be bears. I went to meet the magnificent Mary Berry at her house in

0:35.8

Oxfordshire and we recorded this interview in the summer of 2017.

0:46.4

So Mary I guess I should start by explaining where we are. We're in your garden and it's a gorgeous day and the birds are singing and there's the distant hum of a plane and at my

0:51.6

feet I've got Millie the Labrador who's pretty pooped in the heat and under a gorgeous rose bush they may well indeed be Mary Berry roses I'm not sure you've got the wonderful Darcy, the Cocker Spaniel.

1:04.0

It doesn't get more British, does it?

1:06.0

Well, I mean, you attract dogs, and you absolutely love dogs. I know that.

1:12.0

How lucky to be a dog who's a friend of

1:14.9

Sue's. They do they do come to me I think they recognize someone of a similar

1:19.2

IQ I think they go I think we go oh we've found our equal here.

1:24.0

How long have you been in this house, Mary?

1:26.0

It's seen you through a great deal of your life, isn't it?

1:29.0

29 years we've been in this house and we've been 40 years in the village so we're very much

1:35.0

part of it really. The Plains overhead reminds me of the first series of

1:38.4

of Bake-Off. Do you remember that, Fulham Palace? I remember because I'm a bit of a gardener I remember the grass and the

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