Finally bang! On the Empire Podcast this week it's a local podcast for local people

as a League of Gentlemen dropped by plus Peter Jackson and Philba Boyant come in all

away from the tonbridge wheels to talk about mortal engines, how exciting all that and more

on the movie podcast that is just now getting over the sort of cold that it was pretty bad.

Here's how bad it was, basically if you'd had a coffee fit like this in act one of a movie

you wouldn't be around to be an act three. That's how bad it was.

How the pod I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to the Empire Podcast this week I'm joined by

not one not two but three colleagues of such lethal cunning all of whom have come into

my German podium taking her lives into their hands and one of them has a hard out because

of a meringue reef and I'm not making that up. That's true.

Hell in a heart geek queen how are you? I'm very well thank you I've made a meringue

reef. What's meringue reef? It's like a Pavlova but it's in a ring shape instead of

like being a disc and so then you essentially trade it like a Pavlova but it looks prettier.

But you don't hang it on the door. Why would you do that?

Because it's a reef. Yes but also you can eat it so why would you hang it?

You make a compelling argument but why would you shape it into a reef if you're not going

to like do you lay it on someone's grave side? Well I was going to lay on the table and

then have it eaten but like for the five minutes before it's eaten it will look really

pretty. So is it all meringue? There's no other to it. Well there'll be whipped cream

and fruit obviously. I always feel like a meringue should be the topping on a lovely sort

of lemon pie. So like a lemon meringue. You realise that there are other uses for a

meringue also I called it a bit of a... I'm serious let's be honest. No no I disagree.

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