S8, E10: David Gray, musician

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The multi-platinum selling musician David Gray joins Grace this week on Comfort Eating. His breakthrough album White Ladder topped the charts worldwide and sold more than 3m copies in the UK, making it one of the best selling albums of the 21st century. Now with his 13th album, Dear Life, he joins Grace to look back at how music changed his life, the food that sustained a three-decade career and how he avoids playing the celebrity game. If you liked this episode then have a listen to Grace’s conversations with Rufus Wainwright, Guy Garvey and Self Esteem.

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:07.6	I'm Grace Dent and this is comfort eating from The Guardian.
0:13.6	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:19.5	Because even as a restaurant critic,
0:21.8	I believe the food that matters most
0:24.1	is often that snack you cobble together
0:26.8	when you're curled upon the sofa.
0:29.3	Each week, I ask my guest to lift the lid
0:32.6	on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
0:36.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person
0:38.8	from what they eat behind closed dogs.
0:43.7	Hello listeners. I am crumpled up on my little chair in the kitchen. It is raining cats
0:51.0	and dogs outside. This morning my weather up claimed it to be snow.
0:57.4	I'm actually deeming it sleet.
0:59.4	It was nothing as glamorous as snow.
1:01.3	It was just movable, slush, really.
1:04.4	It does feel like a sign of things to come.
1:07.9	But you know what?
1:09.0	Perfect excuse to put the heating on. Oh, I love a toasty
1:13.6	radiator me. Tell you what, I'm going to make a cup of tea. Scrap that. I'm going to make
1:19.7	two. In seven minutes, I have got a bona fidey, famous man coming over to talk with me.
1:31.3	Now, his work has genuinely touched the hearts of millions, including me.
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