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 doors.

Hello, friends. You find me here grappling around amongst some giant leaves. I'm dusting

this here house plant.

Now this calms me down as I await my next comfort eating guest because if I had a claxon, it would be time to deploy it

because we are in national treasure territory today, folks.

A rocket-powered dynamo is about to come through that door. Comedian, actor,

writer. It's Miriam Margles. This is actually my bloke's house plant. It's a seven-foot-tall yucca.

The plant does have a name. He's called Bernard. Only took my fellow seven years to move it in.

I think it could be his biggest sign of commitment to date. I am finally trusted to polish

Bernard's hallowed leaves. You can't hurry love people, as the great philosopher, Phil Collins

once said.

One person who will not be dusting the top of Bernard's leaves is Miriam Magley's.

She may be enormous in presence and boundless in talent, but she's only 4'11 in height.

She's been on our screens, big and small, since the 1960s, but there's been something of a Margly's renaissance in recent years, in part due to her infamously outspoken

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