S2 E6: Tom Watson, former Labour deputy leader

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Food, Arts

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Grace’s Comfort Eating guest this week is the former politician Tom Watson. The pair talk about his life – after she has to run to the kitchen to spit out the food he brought round. They talk about growing up on cheese toasties, the Jeremy Corbyn years, and how Watson, at the aged of 54, realised he has an eating disorder

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:06.7	I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from the Guardian.
0:12.8	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:18.2	Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most
0:23.1	is often not snacked, it cobbled together when you curled upon a sofa.
0:28.0	Each week I asked my guests to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen them through their
0:34.3	lives. Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind closed doors.

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