Hoovering - Episode 98: Michael Chakraverty
Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew
Jessica Fostekew
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2019
⏱️ 62 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.
I’m talking in the last Hoovering of 2019 to the beautiful man and exquisite baker, star of this series of Bake Off just gone, Michael Chakraverty. We get deep into Bake Off gossip, mental health and we both make shortbread from the same recipe. I’ll give you less than one guess whose biscuits ended up being delicious and whose were embarrassing.
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Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 2019
The next Hoovering live is in LEICESTER on 9th February as part of their excellent comedy festival! It’s an afternoon job and you can come and see my work in progress and then my Hench show afterwards on the same day. Anyway - click the big Leicester for hoovering tickets. Come come come!
*Don’t forget, discount tickets available on PATREON
Honourable Mentions
Follow the wonderful MICHAEL CHAKRAVERTY on Instagram, please! And whilst you’re at it why not sponsor his marathon run for ALZHEIMERS UK using the pinned tweet on his TWITTER
I would very much love to have you come and see my stand up show HENCH, which is at the SOHO THEATRE in London for three weeks of January. Perhaps get a ticket for someone for Christmas? Yes please. It’s all sold out for October now I’m afraid.
Outside of that I’ll be doing new material gigs and I’m always sticking new dates on MY WEBSITE so have a check. The Hoovering Live dates go on there too.
Michael provided the recipe for our shortbread and I’ll be splatting that all over PATREON in due course
He talked about working for the ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
I melted getting my wonky veg from the mighty ODDBOX
We talked about the giant carrot looking like the finger of the BFG
We also mention LOVE ISLAND
And the excellent cookery work of my future dream guest MEERA SODHA
OH, And
If you have got a any spare dosh to give a month I’m on this great site called
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/hoovering.
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Transcript
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| 0:49.1 | Welcome to Hoovering, the podcast about eating. I'm Jessica Bostigue. I love eating as much as anything else in the world, but also it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other things that are rubbish. It's complicated and I think fascinating. This is a conversation with an |
| 1:12.9 | interesting soul, not just about food, but about gobbling it up or, if you will, hoovery. |
| 1:22.3 | Hey, wonderful eaters, you're right in the middle of Christmas slash New Year. It's the |
| 1:27.2 | wilderness or the corporeal |
| 1:29.4 | perineum, as I like to call it. I think you've been doing some of the most joyful hoovering of all |
| 1:33.8 | time, please. I'd love it if you have. I have. We've got a bit of a treat for you in this episode. |
| 1:39.7 | I'm talking to one of my absolute favourite stars of the last series of Bake Off, the seriously |
| 1:44.0 | lovely and |
| 1:44.9 | gloriously talented microchacravati. Need to tell you some things that we've got, though, |
| 1:51.4 | to look forward to in the new year first, that you might want to buy a ticket for, like you |
| 1:55.7 | might want to come to a hoovering live. The next one's in Leicester as part of the Comedy Festival on |
| 1:59.6 | the 9th of February at 2 o'clock. |
| 2:01.9 | Google Lester Comedy Festival. If you want a discount ticket to that, although I've already made it |
| 2:05.9 | quite cheap, go to patreon.com forward slash the hoovering pod and you'll see all sorts of things that |
| 2:11.6 | you can get in exchange for a few bucks a month, including discount tickets to all my live shows. I'm on tour. If you're looking for |
| 2:17.9 | something to look forward to next year, my show, Hensch is going all around the UK, Ireland and |
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