Kate Winslet (Christmas Special)
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Oscar-winning acting royalty Kate Winslet joins us for a Christmas Special in the Dream Restaurant. But can James keep his Eternal Sunshine questions to himself?
Kate Winslet’s directorial debut ‘Goodbye, June’ is in cinemas now and on Netflix from 24 December. Watch it here.
Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 18 Dec.
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Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.
Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.
Video production by Megan McCarthy for Plosive, and Pippa Brown.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
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| 0:00.0 | On off menu, we always ask guests the big question, James. |
| 0:04.1 | Still or sparkling? |
| 0:05.8 | That's the biggest question on the pod. |
| 0:07.5 | But imagine if the answer was just, neither. |
| 0:10.2 | No water at all. |
| 0:11.8 | Well, Water Aid have asked us to imagine a Christmas dinner without water, |
| 0:15.3 | a shrivelled up turkey, sprouts that turn into stones. |
| 0:18.2 | And no gravy. |
| 0:19.7 | It would be a full-on gravy apocalypse out there. |
| 0:22.3 | That wouldn't be dinner. |
| 0:23.2 | It would be a goddamn culinary catastrophe. |
| 0:25.4 | And that's the point, James. |
| 0:26.4 | Everything at Christmas and all year starts with water. |
| 0:29.2 | But one in ten people around the world don't have clean water. |
| 0:32.0 | You can change that. |
| 0:33.0 | Donate today at waterade.org because change starts with water. |
| 0:36.5 | Music today at wateraid.org because change starts with water. |
| 1:05.3 | Welcome to the off-menu podcast, taking the ginger biscuits of conversation, leaving them on the fireplace hearth of humour and awaiting the Santa of friendship. |
| 1:07.3 | Santa's going to eat some biscuits? |
| 1:09.1 | Leave some biscuits out for Santa, James? |
| 1:10.6 | What do you leave out for Santa, man? |
| 1:13.6 | That is Ed Campbell. My name is James A. Casson together. |
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