Marian Keyes
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Internationally bestselling Irish author Marian Keyes – co-host of Radio 4’s ‘Now You’re Asking’ – is this week’s dream diner. And she’s got some supportive words for Ed and James.
Trigger warning: this episode contains talk about alcohol addiction, and mentions of grooming.
Marian Keyes’s latest novel ‘My Favourite Mistake’ is out now, published by Penguin. But it here.
Marina co-hosts ‘Now You’re Asking’ on BBC Radio 4. Listen to it on BBC Sounds.
And look out for the BBC adaptation of Marian’s ‘The Walsh Sisters’ which is in the works.
Follow Marian on Instagram @marian_keyes
Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Fri 29 Aug.
Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcast
Follow Off Menu on Instagram and TikTok: @offmenuofficial.
And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.
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.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hey everyone. Before you listen to this audio episode, we've got some fantastic news. For a long time, |
| 0:05.8 | many of you have been bugging us to get the episodes, Envision on the YouTube. And that's just what |
| 0:11.8 | we've done, James. We have our own YouTube channel and now full episodes will be available |
| 0:16.2 | on the YouTube channel. Entire full episodes, start to finish, so you can see exactly what we look like every step of the way. And you don't have to use your imagination anymore. No, we've got loads up there already, actually, James, from this series, including the wonderful Ben Schwartz is on there. Correct me if I'm wrong, Ed. It's at off-menu podcast on YouTube. Yeah, but Needson keep saying this, but I don't think people use at on there. I think if you just go and look up off menu podcast on YouTube yeah but nito keeps saying this but i don't think people use |
| 0:38.0 | at on there i think if you just go and look up off off menu podcasts just use the little search bar |
| 0:42.5 | I think that's how most of the kids do it yeah everyone in the world just types in off menu |
| 0:47.0 | podcasts into the search but they don't put at i don't think they've ever put at go and check |
| 0:52.0 | up full video episodes of the off menu podcast over on over on our YouTube channel, Off-Menu podcast. |
| 0:56.9 | YouTube, We-Tube, your tube for YouTube. |
| 0:59.9 | Ice cream. |
| 1:02.1 | Today's episode of the Off-Menu podcast is sponsored by Itzu, James. |
| 1:07.0 | And it's you, Ed. |
| 1:08.8 | Ed, here's a little riddle for you. |
| 1:12.4 | What is toasted toasted not fried? |
| 1:16.4 | Hydean iodine and vitamin B12 and are now trailus. |
| 1:21.3 | Well, James, that's an easy riddle. You know I know the answer. It'su's crispy seaweed thins. |
| 1:27.2 | I love the crispy seaweed thins. If I'm out and about and I feel like a quick, delicious snack, I reach for its-sus crispy seaweed |
| 1:28.3 | thins. They ain't fried, they're toasted. And the flavors, oh, the flavors, sea salt, saracha, |
| 1:33.8 | sweet soy and wasabi. And all flavors are hyanidine and vitamin B-12. And listen, the trailers thing I said |
| 1:41.0 | earlier, that's important, that means it's a perfect size packet to fit in your lunchbox pockets or your handbag. |
| 1:47.2 | What I like to do is I like to have one pack in my lunchbox, one pack in my pocket, and one pack in my handbag. |
| 1:52.4 | Just in case, you never know. |
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