Helen Lederer: "I've never been on the winning team when it matters"

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Helen Lederer is a writer, actress and comedian. She began her career on the alternative comedy circuit, performing alongside many of today’s household names, and quickly landed roles in iconic sitcoms such as Absolutely Fabulous, Bottom and Girls on Top. Since then she’s appeared on TV and radio, written bestselling books and set up the Comedy Women in Print prize. Despite this, Helen admits she often struggles to believe in her own success. She tells James about her fascination with status and explains why she feels she has never quite made it.

Not That I’m Bitter - A Truly, Madly, Funny Memoir by Helen Lederer is out now.

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0:00.0	Okay, that's six of the ragu and the linguine. Make a move, everyone please.
0:05.1	The customers are rolling in at Stefano's new restaurant, so he needs another chef,
0:09.8	someone with a cool head and an appetite for success.
0:13.0	More flour in the bechamel, let's go.
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0:28.7	slash try today.
0:32.0	This is a global player
0:33.9	original podcast.
0:42.8	Thank you. Global Player Original podcast. Hello and welcome to Full Disclosure, a podcast project conceived entirely to let me spend more time with interesting people than I would ever get on the radio.
0:51.1	Helen Ledre, welcome.
0:52.2	Oh, I'm very honoured.
0:53.6	Well, you say that. I do say that.
0:56.5	I might as well start in a positive manner. Yeah, see how we get on. Yeah. There's a lot of ground to cover,
1:01.9	but let's begin at the end with your new book, Not to the Time Bitter, memoir and, what else?
1:08.3	I mean, why that title? Well, did you pick up a faint strain of irony? Well, yes, I did
1:15.6	twice. First of all, when you said, I'm very honored to be here. And second of all, when I read the
1:19.4	title of your new book, not because you are a bit bitter. Well, I mean, it's that thing when you are
1:24.6	talking about a life that has in some part been publicly known about.
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