Catherine Gray
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
After twenty years of a boozy social life, Catherine gave up drinking. In this conversation with Fearne, recorded live at Tatton Park for the Happy Place Festival, she discusses her past relationship with alcohol, and the affect it had on friends, lovers and family.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and this is the show where we explore the different |
| 0:05.9 | ways we can all achieve a happy, contented mind and tell some fun stories as well. |
| 0:12.5 | Today it's the last of our live interviews from the Happy Place Festival as I meet author |
| 0:17.9 | Catherine Gray. |
| 0:19.5 | When I was drinking I wasn't really faithful to anyone. I always, always, went out, got |
| 0:26.5 | completely black out drunk and would snog someone else and I thought that was me. I thought |
| 0:31.9 | I was a morally bad, broken person. |
| 0:35.1 | Critting drinking just effortlessly stopped all of that. It just wouldn't even occur to |
| 0:38.9 | me now. |
| 0:39.9 | Catherine has written a remarkable book called The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober. So as you |
| 0:45.6 | can imagine we're going to talk a lot about our relationship with alcohol but also how |
| 0:51.1 | we think about our own self-esteem, dating, sex and relationship so there is plenty to |
| 0:57.3 | chew on there. |
| 0:58.1 | I'm Richard E. Grant and my memoir A Pocket Full of Happiness is Available Now. Ever since |
| 1:05.0 | childhood I've kept a diary to try and make sense of this unexpected and extraordinary |
| 1:09.3 | life from with an Analy to Spice World to the Oscars. The constant through it all has been |
| 1:14.7 | the greatest love of my life, my wife Joan. I so hope you enjoy reading it. |
| 1:19.7 | A Pocket Full of Happiness by Richard E. Grant is honest, funny and very moving. Out |
| 1:26.1 | now in paperback and as an audiobook from Audible. |
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