S6 E3: Kathy Burke, actor, director and writer

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

One of the UK’s most loved and versatile actors, Kathy Burke, lands in Grace’s sitting room this week. Transitioning from punk teenager, to award-winning actor and then taking on comedy, Kathy has loved almost all of it. She talks to Grace about her career highlights and when her personal life sometimes got in the way, recounting the food that got her through. Whether it’s eating fish and chips on a film set with Ray Winstone, a love-hate relationship with bananas and beans, or coming to adore biscuits in her 50s, Kathy and Grace reminisce about it all. And hey, sometimes all you need is a bit of burnt toast

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:08.0	I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from The Guardian.
0:19.0	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life. Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most is often that snack you cobble together when you curled upon the sofa.
0:29.0	Each week I asked my guest to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
0:36.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind closed door. Just a quick word, there will be some strong language in this episode.
0:50.0	Hello friends, you find me in my very peaceful garden just under the flight path
0:59.9	I'm sure you can hear pulling up weeds in my pathway. I'm quietly beside myself because
1:07.8	another celebrity is about to ring my doorbell. She is punchy the funny the mouthy the absolutely brilliant
1:17.6	it's Kathy Burke okay that's done. Let's go inside.
1:31.0	Oh, the path looks so much better now. There is something so satisfying about a closed-ended task. The thing is, let me tell you, the more that you
1:34.4	romp through a to-do list, the more other new
1:37.8	fresh tasks just come into focus. A bit like my laptop,
1:42.1	I think I've got 78 tabs opening my brain at all times.
1:45.6	I have found one answer to this, it's when you're pulling up weeds,
1:51.2	just being the moment. Simply pulling up weeds. That's it. You don't
1:57.9	need to worry right now about replanting in the sterschamps. Just pull upweds. It's very peaceful. So my life lesson today is just
2:08.8	have one tab open at a time, which for me is currently YouTube watching endless Kathy Burke clips.
2:17.0	Kathy Burke is probably one of the UK's most loved and versatile actors as well as director and a writer.
2:26.8	I think we all feel like we know her, don't we?
2:31.1	But according to Kathy, she has never played a role based on her own life. In fact, if she ever
2:37.4	gets a script where the characters remotely like her, she won't do it. It has been such a busy, varied career. So what I want to know is, who is the real
2:49.3	Kathy Burke and what was she eating during all these different chapters?
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