Helena Bonham Carter, cheese toasties with sticky shallots, and a prosecco

Dish

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Arts, Society & Culture, Comedy, Food

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Comfort food and a bottomless snack bag for our season finale. Helena Bonham Carter is an award-winning English actress known for her incredible performances across films including the Harry Potter movies, Howards End, Planet of the Apes, Sweeney Todd, The King’s Speech and TV series such as Toast and The Crown. There are certainly too many credits to mention for a star who made her debut in 1985 in A Room with a View. She’s with us to talk about her latest role as Lady Caterham in Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, which starts streaming on Netflix from 15 January. This is her first time in a Queen of Crime adaptation, with co-stars including Mia McKenna-Bruce and former Dish guest, Martin Freeman. Helena comes equipped with her sizeable snack bag, curated especially for her life on-set, but there’s still room for Dish’s first cheese toasties, featuring five different cheeses. The cheese toasties with sticky shallots are paired with the Loved & Found Feteasca Alba Brut, which sadly is no longer available to buy. The Waitrose wine experts have since lined up the perfect replacement; a glass of Valdo Elevantum Prosecco. For this episode, Nick, Angela and Helena also enjoy a Mother Root and tonic, alongside the many, many other beverages that make it on to the table. From the perilous times on the set of Seven Dials to helping Helena overcome her rice intimidation, we finish up season 8 of Dish with a hearty serving of good company. There’s a short break now before we return in February for more. Til next time! 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 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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0:30.1	Dish from Waitrose is a cold glass production.
0:33.7	This podcast may contain some strong language and adult themes.
0:39.1	Hi, welcome to DISH from Waitrose. My name's Angela Hartner.
0:42.5	My name is Nick Grubshaw and here we are for Dish in 2026.
0:46.6	No, it's not. It's a 2026 episode but it's 2025.
0:50.1	Yeah, no, I know where I am but they're watching a list of this in 2026.
1:12.3	But it's time, isn't? Yeah, but if you're... Set in the cards, I read the cards. Yeah, he says, you don't have to pretend it's 2026 on it, it's not. But you just... I didn't. I didn't say, oh, I'm in 2020, very... I said, it's 226. Oh, there we go. Well, we're not going to.
1:14.2	Well, we're not going to pretend. It's not. No, but it is. It is. Yeah. How is your Christmas? No, that's pretending. No, no, pretending. Hey, we're in a different place today. I know.
1:27.8	Is she's second home? Is it? Is our new second home? How are you, man? You're right? Very well, thank you, and your good self. I'm good. And do you know, I'm excited today because two things I'm really excited about are our guest, Helen Bonham Carter, who I've never ever met my life. Oh, that's surprising. She pretty much met everyone.
1:44.7	And I feel like she doesn't do too much stuff.
1:47.4	No, she doesn't. And I really, really love her. She's an incredible actor. And I'm also really excited about something else. I'm a huge fan of. Cheese Toasty's. Oh, excellent. So two of my favorite things. It's like Christmas. Yeah. Yeah.
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