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Hello there and welcome to the podcast that doesn't just get its guests to talk about food,

it feeds them too and feeds them properly. Thank you so much for joining me. Today, I lunch

with a comedian, singer, actor, presenter and impressionist who really made his name in

the much-loved sitcom Gavin and Stacy alongside his friend from school days Ruth Jones. He

presents the long-rubbing panel show What I Light You and plays the companion to Steve

Cougan's stand-in restaurant critic for the Observer in four series of the trip. But

today, a lucky man, he gets to eat with the real Observer restaurant critic. He reveals

what it's like getting a private performance from Shirley Bassie, his adventures as a voice

over artist and how Rommie Corbett left messages on his on-suffered. It is, of course, the multi-talented

Rob Briden and we go, wow, you know, we're Shirley Bassie, it's amazing. She's gone for

about five minutes. She comes back, right? She flung open the curtain and she went to them

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