S4 E10: Michael Ball and Alfie Boe, singers

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Food, Arts

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Roll up, roll up, for an unprecedented Comfort Eating event as we bring you not one but two very special guests … Yes that’s right, parking their sleigh outside Grace’s house we have world-renowned singers, entertainers, and the unofficial Kings of Christmas, Michael Ball and Alfie Boe joining us for a fantastically festive episode. Both hugely successful in their own rights, Michael and Alfie have been making music and topping the charts together since 2016, with multiple UK album No 1s to their name, as well as arena tours, TV specials, and Brit awards in tow. In this special Yuletide episode, Alfie and Michael reflect on Christmases gone by, their thoughts on carol singers, who’s the best gift-giver and, of course, the comfort foods that see them through Chrimbo every year

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:06.9	Comfort Eating with Cray Stent is supported by a CARDO.
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0:13.2	there's an CARDO just for you.
0:16.1	I'm Cray Stent and this is Comfort Eating from the Guardian.
0:22.2	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life,
0:27.6	because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most
0:32.5	is often not snacked or cobbled together when you're curled upon a sofa.
0:37.4	Each week I asked my guests to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen them through their
0:43.8	lives because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind closed doors.
0:49.7	Friends Christmas is upon us and you find me in my kitchen swathed in sequence and adorned
1:00.2	with a sparkly Christmas tree headband. And I'll be honest, I'm in a bit of a festive frenzy.
1:07.2	Comfort Eating is a concept belongs to Christmas, so it's only fitting that we have a
1:13.7	youltide spectacular for you. In a moment we have none other than Michael Ball and Alfie Boe
1:21.6	arriving and they are more Christmas-y than a chocolate reindeer eating a stuffing sandwich
1:27.9	watching home alone too, lost in New York. Yes, that is how marvelously merry the pair of them are.
1:34.8	And I am so filled with nervous excitement I am tickling my taste buds with a little mince pie.
1:43.7	Do you know how warm they are so?
1:50.9	Fried it. Something so magical about mince pie.
1:58.1	With their own decorated careers in theatre and opera, Michael Ball and Alfie Boe have teamed up
2:04.9	and gone and added chart superstars to their bow. Their first album called Together went to
2:12.6	number one in the UK album charts back in 2016, eventually going double platinum. As a duo,
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