Ep 17: Victoria Coren Mitchell
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Victoria Coren Mitchell – 'Only Connect' host, writer and professional poker player – is this week's diner. She gets introduced to teddy bear ham, talks very British holidays and reveals her dinner party secret.
Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography) and Amy Browne (illustrations)
'Only Connect' is on BBC Two, Mondays, 7.30pm.
Ed Gamble is on tour. See his website for full details.
James Acaster is on tour. See his website for full details.
James’s TV show ‘Hypothetical’ is on Dave, Wednesdays, 10pm.
Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello listeners of the off menu podcast. It is Ed Gamble here from the off menu podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | I have a very exciting announcement. I have written my first ever book. I am absolutely |
| 0:12.1 | over the moon to announce this. I'm very, very proud of it. Of course, what else could |
| 0:16.7 | I write a book about? But food. My book is all about food. My life in food. How greedy |
| 0:22.2 | I am. What a greedy little boy I was. What a greedy adult I am. I think it's very funny. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm very proud of it. The book is called Glutton, the multicore's life of a very greedy boy. |
| 0:32.4 | And it's coming out this October, but it is available to preorder now wherever you |
| 0:38.0 | preorder books from. And if you like my signature, I've done some signed copies which are exclusively |
| 0:44.8 | available from Waterstones. But go and preorder your copy of Glutton, the multicore's life |
| 0:49.8 | of a very greedy boy. Now please. |
| 0:54.0 | The new memoir from Matthew Perry. Since so much has been written about me in the past, |
| 1:00.5 | I thought it was time you heard it from me. Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing. |
| 1:05.6 | So here it was. Fame. Friends was huge. And I couldn't jeopardize that. I loved my co-actors. |
| 1:12.4 | I loved everything about the show. But I was struggling with my addictions. I had a |
| 1:17.0 | secret and no one could know. The number one bestseller, Matthew Perry. Friends, |
| 1:22.4 | lovers, and the big terrible thing available now. |
| 1:25.7 | Hello Ed. Hello James. How you doing? Very good. Thank you. My name is James A. Castor. |
| 1:50.3 | My name is Ed Gamble. Welcome to the off menu podcast where we speak to a special, |
| 1:54.8 | special guest every week and get them to tell us their dream meal. |
| 1:59.0 | Their favorite ever. Start a main course, dessert, side and drink. And today's guest is... |
| 2:04.6 | Victoria, Corrid Mitchell. You've seen her hosting Only Connect. She pops up on every panel |
| 2:08.7 | show going on. She used to be a poker player professionally. |
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