Hoovering - Episode 183: Harriet Dyer
Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew
Jessica Fostekew
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 63 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.
Hoovering’s back on the road, well, I was on tour. So I met up with Glossop based comedian and doer of incredible things mental-health-related, Harriet Dyer. The first time I gigged with Harriet was about 8 or 9 years ago and I remember having to go out of the room and catch my breath from laughing so much, she’s a dreamboat and a whirlwind. We met for lunch in Sheffield at a posh chain place called The Botanist. She’s got a hanging kebab. Hehehe.
Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage.
Honourable Mentions/ Links
First things first BUY HARRIET’S BOOK: BIPOLAR COMEDIAN
And her new community centre with a view to providing support for mental health problems as well as a safe space where anyone is welcome, full of amazing stuff going on is called the UPSTANDING CITIZENS BUREAU and it’s coming soon to Oldham.
Then follow her on TWITTER and INSTAGRAM
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Things we mentioned that you might be interested in from this podcast include…
We ate in Sheffield’s THE BOTANIST
The fancy restaurants we could have gone to which all sounded the same are called JORO and DOMO. Haha. They do both look stunning to be fair, another time, please.
We talked about the following foodstuffs: AUNT BESSIES, drinks by MONSTER and spicy MCSPICY from Macdonalds.
We talk about the now defunct pub with the best roasts ever apparently, RIP THE WRENS NEST
We talk about the incredible mini-chain of comedy clubs THE STAND
There’s the mightiest Spanish restaurant in Newcastle
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| 1:15.3 | Music network rate. Welcome to Hoovering, the podcast about eating. I'm Jessica Bostikyu. I love eating as much as |
| 1:21.9 | anything else in the world, but also it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other things that are rubbish. |
| 1:30.2 | It's complicated and I think fascinating. This is a conversation with an interesting soul, |
| 1:36.1 | not just about food, but about gobbling it up or, if you will, hoovering. |
| 1:44.0 | Oh, higher then please. This is a lovely one this is. I'm in Soggy, brilliant Sheffield, |
| 1:50.7 | hoovering with Harriet Dyer, a comedian so funny that the first time I saw her do stand up. I had to |
| 1:56.7 | leave the room to try and stop laughing so much because I couldn't breathe. Her brains are made of lovely magic. |
| 2:04.1 | And she's got a book out called Bipolar Comedian. |
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