CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: Keira Knightley, fennel & citrus roast turkey, and Champagne

Dish

Cold Glass Productions

Arts, Society & Culture, Comedy, Food

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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It’s beginning to taste a lot like Christmas. For this year’s festive special, Nick and Angela are joined around the tree by Keira Knightley for a turkey feast and plenty of bubbles. Keira Knightley is an English actress who lives in North London with her two daughters and husband, James Righton. She is known for an array of brilliant roles in films such as Pride & Prejudice, The Imitation Game, Atonement and the TV series Black Doves. And, at this time of year, it would be remiss not to mention her role in the Christmas staple Love Actually, a film she’s watched just once. She joins us following her latest lead role... opposite Joe Wilkinson in the Waitrose Christmas advert. We’ve heard his side of the story, but how does Keira reflect on the day they filmed ‘the big kiss’? Angela delivers dish after dish in this episode, with a fennel & citrus roast turkey as the table’s centrepiece. It’s served with her own (and famous) turkey gravy, roast potatoes with rosemary salt, stir fried sprouts with chestnuts and pancetta and a roast parsnip & grape salad with hazelnuts, chicory and parmesan dressing, which might just steal the show. Glasses are filled with No.1 Brut Special Reserve Vintage Champagne on arrival and the meal is paired by the Waitrose wine experts with a glass of De Loach OFS California Chardonnay. Enjoy! And let us know if you try and recreate any of the dishes at home. Merry Christmas and happy holidays from Nick, Angela and all the Dish team! You can watch full episodes of Dish on YouTube and, new for this season, on Spotify. All recipes from this podcast can be found at waitrose.com/dishrecipes The recipe for roast parsnip & grape salad was created for Waitrose by Elly Curshen. A transcript for this episode can be found at waitrose.com/dish If you want to get in touch with us about anything at all, contact dish@waitrose.co.uk Dish from Waitrose is made by Cold Glass Productions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.4	Hello.
1:28.3	Hello. Hi. Wow. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hi. Merry Christmas. How are you? Merry Christmas. How are you? How are you? I'm good. It smells good. It smells. Ridiculous in air hands. It smells so good. A little bit turkey. A little salad. Oh, it's all there. Are you hungry? I'm really hungry. Always hungry. It's all ready. A little bit turkey. A little salad. It's all there. Are you hungry? Oh, it's hungry. Let's do it. Come on in. Oh, it's Christmas. We have to. A little snacks for you. Lovely, thank you. It'll be interesting me eating crisps on this microphone, isn't it? Well, you've got to eat a whole roast dinner as well. So yeah, yeah So, yeah, yeah, it's going to be great. Hello, welcome to dish from Waitrose. I am Nick Grimshaw. And I am Angela Hartland. And it's time to talk Christmas. Christmas. You're excited? Yeah, I've been excited since about September. This is true. I've come in. I love Christmas. You're cooking, aren't you? I am.
2:01.0	Not today.
2:01.8	No.
2:02.2	But on Christmas Day, yeah.
2:03.5	Big responsibility. How many people? We have 10 of us. Oh, lovely. Yes. So 10 are coming over to ours. First time I've ever done it actually. Do I expect a phone call every half hour or every 15 minutes? No, but I know we joke about it on here, but I'll be all right.
2:19.1	I'll be fine.
2:19.6	I actually would like to at one point. Time table. Yes. We'll go for a drink. And then we'll just do it. So I want it to be fun and enjoyable. I don't know like my mom in the 90s. With like bright red face really stressed. No. And, like, you know.
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