Hoovering - Episode 127: Gyles Brandreth
Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew
Jessica Fostekew
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Host, Jessica Fostekew (Guilty Feminist, Motherland) has a frank conversation with an interesting person about gobbling; guzzling; nibbling; scoffing; devouring and wolfing all up… or if you will, hoovering.
In this episode I’m talking to charming lunatic, the superstar that is Gyles Brandreth. He was on Countdown ‘a long long long time ago’, the first EVER programme on C4. We met just before Covid when we recorded an episode of QI together and he was and is the loveliest and most fascinating soul. He agreed to hoover with me so I brought some cheese and apple round to his garden whilst his grandchildren had a swimming lesson in his pool. Naturally.
Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage.
Honourable Mentions/ Links
THIS SUNDAY 19th, 8pm (UK Time) IS THE HOOVERING LIVE - ‘VIRTUAL’ - Come!
Gyles read a poem a day ON HIS TWITTER in a snazzy jumper so I’d get all over that if I were you.
His podcast with the amazing Susie Dent is called SOMETHING RHYMES WITH PURPLE all about wonderful words.
And he’s written tens of books but this one of POEMS TO LEARN BY HEART is particularly lovely.
I’m on this great site called PATREON where I swap your money for ace podcast related stuff like totally exclusive content and guest recipes. It’ll help me keep the podcast not just alive, but also thriving. Thanks so so so much if you’ve become a patron recently and/ or stuck with me since the beginning of this.
Also - if you’d wanted to donate something as a one-off you can DO THAT HERE on the Acast Supporter page thing.
As ever, I toot wonky fruit and veg delivery heroes ODDBOX
The cheese I got us was from THE LARDER in Ladywell and it was a BERKSHIRE ROLLRIGHT and a Midlands Spenwood also known as a BERKSWELL
You don’t want to know what happened when I googled ‘Amigo Magazine for Foot Fetishists’
This was his dear departed friend SIMON CADELL
And lastly here’s a toot for the amazing REX CINEMA in Wareham, Dorset.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast. Support this show through the ACAST supporter feature. It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just hit the link in the show description to support now. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome to Hoovering, the podcast about eating. I'm Jessica Bostigue. I love eating as much as |
| 0:25.3 | anything else in the world, but also it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other |
| 0:31.6 | things that are rubbish. It's complicated and I think fascinating. This is a conversation with an interesting soul, not just about food, but about gobbling it up, or if you will, hoovering. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello, Stinkers. This one's an absolute belter because I'm hoovering with none other than charming fruit, Giles Brandreth. |
| 0:55.1 | I know. |
| 0:55.9 | First, though, I've got some really exciting news. |
| 0:58.5 | I'm doing a hoovering live with at least three amazing guests. |
| 1:02.7 | This Sunday, in two days, on the 19th of July, it's at 8pm UK time, but it's virtual. |
| 1:08.2 | So hopefully loads of you can come. |
| 1:10.3 | Links are in the podcast notes all over my social media. If you are following me, it's virtual so hopefully loads of you can come uh links are in the podcast notes all over |
| 1:12.2 | my social media if you are following me it's at the hoovering pod or follow me at jessica foster |
| 1:17.6 | you the guests are incredible they'll all be listed online i've kept it really cheap there's a discount |
| 1:22.5 | for most of my patrons ah anyway i really hope i see that It's going to be wicked. Thanks so much for listening |
| 1:30.0 | to the podcast generally. Food banks are really struggling right now. Any spare money that you've got, |
| 1:35.3 | I reckon, first things first, give it to them. If you haven't got any money, but you have got spare |
| 1:39.2 | time and you're not shielding, whatever, I know that lots of food banks certainly around where I live |
| 1:44.0 | in South East London and looking for volunteers at the moment. So, yeah. I know that lots of food banks certainly around where I live in South |
| 1:44.3 | East London and looking for volunteers at the moment. So, yeah, I mean, you could do that with your |
| 1:48.8 | time. It doesn't need to be with cash. If you've got even more spare cash, I would love it. |
| 1:53.5 | If you could financially support the podcast, on ACAST supporter now, you can do one-off |
| 1:58.5 | helps of like a few quid or whatever, or on patreon.com |
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