S8, E12: Paterson Joseph, actor and author

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

One of the UK’s best loved character actors, Paterson Joseph, joins Grace for another serving of Comfort Eating. The Beach, Peep Show and Wonka actor looks back at his career and muses on the roles he didn’t get, namely the role of Doctor Who to replace David Tennant in 2010. Paterson remembers his parents smuggling yams in from Saint Lucia, the politics of biscuit and toast tax when you’re one of six siblings and the sweet treats on the Wonka set. If you liked this episode then have a listen to James Norton, David Harewood and Tamsin Greig

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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 doors.
0:45.1	Hello friends. You find me right now at my mirror. Smearing what can really only be described as nappy cream onto my cheeks. Things are
0:57.6	getting a bit desperate around here. Now the cold weather's come. I'm also getting ready for
1:04.1	my next guest. It is peep show and wonka actor Patterson Joseph. I've always loved him. I love his work ever since seeing him in the iconic
1:14.7	Tilda's Finton and Leonardo DiCaprio, Danny Boyle film The Beach in the year 2000. I was but a mere
1:22.2	strip of a girl when I went to see that at the cinema. Now this man is dapper so I need to look my absolute
1:30.0	best for him. I wanted to tell you what I've been musing on recently. It is my skin. I don't know
1:37.1	about you but my winter skincare routine has to adapt and adapt dramatically as the weather
1:42.7	cools down and the cold sets in and the wind starts blind
1:45.9	and my skin starts subtly at first but then at great speed to become drier and drier and
1:53.4	well drier and now with my spray tan on top of it I resemble a rather rather charming, crunchy, not cornflake.
2:03.5	Oscar Wilde once said that beauty is a form of genius. And right now, my genius smells distinctly
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