Ep 251: Helen Skelton
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
TV presenter, author and Strictly contestant Helen Skelton takes on her next challenge: ordering her Off Menu menu in the Dream Restaurant.
Helen Skelton’s book ‘In My Stride’ is out now published by Headline. Buy it here.
Follow Helen on Twitter and Instagram @helenskelton
Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
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| 0:16.7 | Welcome to the off menu podcast taking the big flat cake of conversation adding the cream of humor the jam of friendship and rolling it |
| 0:21.5 | all up on the internet, Swiss Roll Podcast. |
| 0:24.8 | That is a gamble. My name is James Acass. So together we own a dream restaurant and every single week |
| 0:28.6 | we're inviting a guest and ask them their favourite ever start a main cause dessert, |
| 0:31.4 | side dish and drink, not in that order. |
| 0:33.4 | And this week, I guess is Helen Skelton. |
| 0:36.9 | Helen is a TV presenter. |
| 0:38.8 | She's done so many things, James. |
| 0:40.4 | You know what I'm excited about? |
| 0:42.2 | Blue Peter, country file, she is a broadcaster of much |
| 0:45.4 | repute. She has a book out now called In My Stride. It's a memoir all about her life, James, |
| 0:51.5 | as memoirs tend to be. |
| 0:53.0 | She talks about strictly in it. |
| 0:55.0 | Okay. |
| 0:56.0 | You've got to promise me man that when Helen comes on the podcast, |
| 1:00.0 | we don't just talk about strictly the whole time |
| 1:01.0 | because a lot of listeners may know this already |
| 1:03.5 | you are an obsessive strictly fan like to the extent you are basically a mom in her 50s |
| 1:09.8 | like you are obsessed with it which makes me laugh because it's just not your |
| 1:14.3 | personality in any other way yeah but you've got to promise me this doesn't get |
| 1:18.9 | taken over by strictly because at this is a food podcast this is a food |
| 1:22.4 | podcast is a food podcast. This is a food podcast. |
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