Hoovering - Episode 96: Salena Godden
Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew
Jessica Fostekew
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2019
⏱️ 56 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.
This week I’m hoovering with, for the first time, a poet - and not just any old poet, the extraordinary utterly hilarious and heart-blowing, rising mega-star Salena Godden. She schleps all the way to mine and we eat gnocchi and talk about our cortisol superpowers, amongst everything else.
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Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 2019
I’m hoovering live at the LEICESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL on the afternoon of Sunday 9th Feburary. Come come come!
And then it’s a very long way off but we’re also at the NORTH PODCAST FESTIVAL in Hull on 13th May! Get in there early.
Honourable Mentions
I implore you to follow SALENA GODDEN on social media, she’s poeming off there all the time and it’s the easiest place to find out about her live work which I will most definitely be seeing you at. She’s here on TWITTER and here on INSTAGRAM.
The books Salena read her poems from would all make pretty glorious presents for a kid you know this Christmas or a grown up for that matter. PESSIMISM IS FOR LIGHTWEIGHTS and MIDNIGHT FEAST and also POEMS FROM A GREEN AND BLUE PLANET.
The fierce mushroom gnocchi recipe was from my MOB VEGGIE cookbook I use all the time.
I have a stand up show called HENCH all, roughly about strength and gender and a little bit about diet-life too you know. It got nominated for best show in Edinburgh and it won some other shit and got sexy reviews across the board. It’s on tour and I would love love love to have you come to it.
In January it’s at the
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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 anything |
| 0:25.6 | else in the world, but also it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other things that are rubbish. |
| 0:33.5 | It's complicated and I think fascinating. This is a conversation with an interesting soul, |
| 0:39.4 | not just about food, but about gobbling it up, or if you will, Hoovering. |
| 0:47.9 | Hey there, wonderfuls. This week, I'm hoovering with the incredibly funny, utterly brilliant, |
| 0:52.9 | and somehow madly lovely as well, poet Selina Godden. First up, though, I'm hoovering with the incredibly funny, utterly brilliant and somehow madly lovely as well, poet, Selina Godden. |
| 0:57.1 | First up, though, I need to invite you to a hoovering live show of you. |
| 1:00.4 | If you've ever been to one, you'll know they're really good. |
| 1:02.8 | The next one coming up is in Leicester on the 9th of February. |
| 1:06.3 | It's at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. |
| 1:07.5 | It's part of the Leicester Comedy Festival. So if you just Google, Lester Comedy Festival and a hoovering, then you'll find it. Also, I'm there the same day |
| 1:15.8 | doing a work-in-progress stand-up show and my tour show, Hensch, which incidentally is on tour |
| 1:21.6 | from January through to the middle of June. So if you're free in January, it's at the Soho |
| 1:25.9 | Theatre in London that whole time. |
| 1:33.1 | And then I go on tour all around the UK Ireland and also now recently revealed Melbourne Comedy Festival, which is from the very end of March till I think the 19th of April. So if you're |
| 1:39.2 | based in Melbourne or anywhere near there, please come to that. I've never been to Australia |
| 1:43.3 | before. It's very exciting indeed. |
| 1:46.1 | Or maybe you know someone who lives there or any of the places that I'm going on tour and you think, |
| 1:50.8 | oh, what great Christmas present it would be to get them tickets to see Jess, because you'd be |
| 1:56.5 | having a correct thought there, I reckon. And it's selling out quite quickly a lot of the venues. |
| 2:01.2 | I mean, some aren't, but lots are. So I'd get in there quite sharpish if I were you, not to |
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