Ep 19: Gemma Cairney
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We welcome Gemma Cairney – BBC radio DJ, author and presenter – to the dream restaurant this week. And it's not just a meal, it's a party.
Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography) and Amy Browne (illustrations)
Listen to Gemma Cairney's BBC podcast 'The Leisure Society'.
Ed Gamble records his special at the Leicester Square Theatre on 12 May. See the Leicester Square Theatre website for details.
Ed also plays the Hackney Comedy Experience with Josh Widdicombe, Suzi Ruffell and more on 11 April. See the Plosive website for 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 pre-order now, wherever you |
| 0:38.0 | pre-order 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 pre-order your copy of Glutton, the multicore's life |
| 0:49.9 | of the very greedy boy now. Please. |
| 1:05.8 | Your order is ready. Your order is ready. It's another off menu podcast. Great stuff. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm Ed Gamble there. Oh, the great bonito. I didn't seem happy with that. I've produced |
| 1:15.6 | the great bonito. It's really angry at my intro there, James. Yes. Well, great bonito. |
| 1:19.8 | I should not be so angry. Should he? Sometimes the great bonito just has to hear an introduction |
| 1:23.6 | and love it. Yes. I think it was it was a lady saying your order is ready. And then you |
| 1:27.8 | go up to the counter and you collect your podcast. This is the off menu podcast. The podcast |
| 1:33.4 | where myself had Gamble and James A. Castor over there, ask a special guest what their |
| 1:36.8 | dream meal is. Their favorite ever starter, manclothes, dessert, side and drink. And today |
| 1:42.4 | we've got the wonderful Gemma Kenny, Gemma Kenny, six music DJ presenter, podcast, extraordinaire. |
| 1:51.0 | I think that's a wonderful way of describing it. Yeah. Very much looking forward to hearing |
| 1:54.7 | what her dream meal is. Does she have any ingredients that we don't want to hear about James? |
| 2:00.5 | Good point. And I'll just check the list. Yeah. If she says whole peppercorns, she is out |
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