This is The Guardian.

I'm Grace Dent and this is comfort eating from The Guardian.

A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.

Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most is often that

snack you cobbled together when you're curled upon the sofa.

Each week, I ask my guest to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen them through

their lives.

Because you can tell a lot about a person from what

they eat behind closed door. Hello friends. Now another guest is about to arrive at my house

and you'll find me doing something very joyous. I'm putting a jumper on. There's a nip in the air, I'm glad to say.

I breathe a sigh of relief at this time of the year because the swing ball in the garden is firmly packed away.

The summer barbecue season is very much over. I don't even have to pretend to love having my upper arms out anymore.

Those babies are packed away under some lovely wool here. It's so good to go back to being what I feel is my authentic self.

Now my guest today is known for being herself. She's famously straight talking, pulls no punches,

and just so happens to be one of our greatest

living storytellers for screen.

It's TV writer, producer and director, Sally Wayne Wright, OBE.

You'll know Sally's work, it's usually set in her native West Yorkshire.

Think Happy Valley, Gentleman Jack, Las Tango in Halifax, and Scott and Bailey. She's won the

BAFTA for Best Drama, not once, not twice, but three times, and a bunch of other awards too.

She decided she wanted to write when she was but a slip of a girl at nine and started out with

the job on Radio Force the Archers, followed by Emmerdale and Coronation

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