Still Panicking: How to Host a Dinner Party with Monica Heisey
Nobody Panic
Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Still Panicking: From dining out to eating in, food with friends or dinner alone, this week we look back at Stevie and Tessa's top mealtime tips.
Author of the Sunday Times bestseller, and frankly brilliant book, 'Really Good Actually', Monica Heisey joins Stevie and Tessa to talk them through her passion for hosting a really good dinner party. Longtime listeners will know we've tackled this one before, but the tips were mostly about lemons. Monica brings some absolutely banging advice. Also she's so nice. And the book is fantastic, buy it at once.
Find Monica on Instagram @monicaheisey
Buy Monica's book 'Really Good Actually' here.
This episode was first released on 28 March 2023.
Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.
Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Carriad. I'm Sarah. And we are the Weirdo's Book Club podcast. We are doing a very |
| 0:05.0 | special live show as part of the London Podcast Festival. The date is Thursday, 11th of September. |
| 0:09.7 | The time is 7pm and our special guest is the brilliant Alan Davies. Tickets from kingsplace.com. |
| 0:15.5 | Single ladies, it's coming to London. True on Saturday the 13th of September. At the London podcast festival. |
| 0:22.8 | The rumours are true. |
| 0:23.9 | Saturday the 13th of September. |
| 0:25.7 | At King's Place. |
| 0:27.2 | Oh, that sounds like a date to me, Harriet. |
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| 0:55.4 | pharmacist available in England only. Aid restrictions may apply. This service is NHS funded. |
| 1:00.4 | Rescription charges may apply if treatment is supplied. My classroom isn't just a classroom. |
| 1:05.0 | It's a launch pad, a runway, a place where ideas fly on the back of paper planes. Sure, |
| 1:10.0 | there are other ways to get students to speak up, but this is mine. |
| 1:13.5 | All it takes is a bit of creativity, and soon they're all joining in. |
| 1:16.6 | It gives me a lot of joy to see one of my ideas working in the moment, |
| 1:19.8 | and the class learning something new together. |
| 1:22.0 | That's when you know a lesson is really taken off. |
| 1:24.8 | Every lesson shapes a life. |
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