From the archive (season 6): David Baddiel, comedian

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

As Grace Dent takes a short summer break, the team is delving into the archives to bring you some of their favourite episodes. This week, we rewind to February 2024, when legendary comedian and author David Baddiel rocked up to Grace’s house. With a career spanning 40 years on TV, stage and radio, not to mention coining anthemic football songs and writing multiple bestselling books for adults and children, David has a unique place in our nation’s popular culture. He brings Grace his favourite comfort snack and, while demolishing this cherished chow, opens up about family, relationships and an obsession with telling the truth

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:03.4	Hello there.
0:08.8	Now welcome back to the last in my mini series of episodes perfect for listening to when you're in holiday mode.
0:18.2	Listen to this when you've got a fresh pedicule, after sun in the fridge, and you're
0:22.7	settled on the sun lounger with your favourite ice lolly. This episode features a brilliant
0:29.9	comedian and I might add it caused some consternation among the listeners at the time
0:36.8	who seemed to think that there was a little light flirting going on.
0:40.8	I deny it.
0:42.2	Seriously.
0:43.9	See what you think.
0:46.8	I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from The Guardian.
0:52.7	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:58.6	Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most is often that
1:04.4	snack you cobble together when you're curled upon the sofa.
1:08.4	Each week, I ask my guest to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen
1:14.1	them through their lives, because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind
1:19.5	closed doors. Just a quick word, there will be some strong language in this episode.
1:35.0	Hello, friends. Now, you find me actually on my hands and knees, I am wedged behind my sofa. I'm just doing a bit of tidying up. I've got a new
1:48.5	episode of comfort eating to record, and I do like to have the play Spick and Span. I am trying to get
1:55.9	rid of the mountain of cat hair, the swathes of it that are always blowing through my living room.
2:03.9	I've also been looking at my messages. Now, some of them are about comfort eating. Some people
2:10.5	were asking for style advice. I mean, I don't know. Have you actually seen me? I only have
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