S10, Ep2: Lulu, musician

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Joining Grace on this week’s episode of Comfort Eating is Lulu. Lulu was belting out songs to crowds before most of her classmates had mastered their times tables. By 15, she’d swapped school for showbiz and kicked off a six decade career with a bang – her first single Shout landed her in the charts and on the path to global stardom. She’s duetted with legends, succeeded at Eurovision, survived the Bond franchise, and re-emerged time and again – not just still standing, but still selling out. Now in her seventies and on the road again promoting a tour and her second memoir, Lulu and Grace discuss her dad’s job in a meat-market, eating snails for the first time, and why KitKats are the perfect tour bus snack

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:07.6	I'm Grace Dent and this is comfort eating from The Guardian.
0:13.6	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:19.5	Because even as a restaurant critic,
0:21.8	I believe the food that matters most
0:24.1	is often that snack you cobbled together
0:26.8	when you're curled upon the sofa.
0:29.3	Each week, I ask my guest to lift the lid
0:32.6	on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
0:36.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person
0:38.8	from what they eat behind closed doors.
0:43.7	Hello friends. Now, you find me fresh in from a long early morning walk on the streets of
0:51.3	London town. Slightly flushed cheeks, slightly damp lycra.
0:57.4	Look, I'm going to let you in on a secret.
0:59.8	There is no drug on this planet that feels as good as listening to talking heads at 509
1:06.9	in the sunshine on empty pavements.
1:10.3	Look, come back. I know I'm being annoying. I know telling
1:14.2	people to exercise, it's really, really irritating, but getting out there early, it's amazing
1:20.0	there's no one about it sets me up for the day. I like to be that person at Pret Door at 559, getting a filter coffee and having a little look through
1:30.8	in my phone, no one to bother me. Now, a woman who I bet has walked those streets of London too
1:37.5	at 5 a.m. more than once, but on her way back from a showbiz party is my guest today. The
1:43.5	absolute legend.
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