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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Baker Rav Bansal - Racism, Great British Bake-Off and social anxiety

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to baker, blogger and soon-to-be-podcaster, former The Great British Bake Off contestant Rav Bansal about GBBO and being watched by 30 million people, managing the post-filming panic, the opinions that came with the eyes on him, being a brown person wearing a turban in a show with 'British' in the title, e-warriors, triumph in baking, Paul Hollywood, life after Bake Off, celebrating a more diverse face of food, Jamie Oliver's School Dinners, Bake Off's worldwide reach, empty promises and not relying on other people, social anxiety and public speaking, the difference between a hobby and a career and the snobbery of the food industry.

Trigger warning - racism and bigotry, anxiety


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0:00.0

There are times when you're just sitting there.

0:02.7

Things are all going wrong and you've got a producer talking to you,

0:05.1

you got a camera in your face, and you just want to tell people to just leave me alone.

0:08.6

I just want to deal with this by myself.

0:10.5

But you can't because they have to capture every single moment.

0:13.0

It gets better because it has to get better.

0:19.0

We're all made of human.

0:25.0

Hello, you are listening to the Made of Human

0:26.8

podcast. I am Sophie Hagen. I'm your host. I'm a Danish stand-up

0:31.4

comedian that should explain the strange accent.

0:35.0

This is the episode with Ralph Bensell.

0:39.0

Now, he's a bit of a special guest,

0:42.0

because he's not like most people I interview. Some of you will

0:46.4

know that I'm in oh I'll just explain the background noise. It's my window is

0:51.9

open because it's so hot in London that I'm sweating from every single

0:55.7

orifice possible.

0:58.0

And so there's a busy London street outside of my window.

1:02.0

That's the background noise. I hope we'll all

1:03.7

oh I just broke my lamp. Oh this is great. Anyway this is such an authentic podcast that I will take you through me fiddling with my

1:16.2

lamp and then destroying it.

1:18.2

Great.

1:19.2

Now, the reason why Rabis is a special gas is because, because well I had a bit of a tiny mental breakdown

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