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Dish

Sue Perkins, Malaysian prawn laksa curry and an albariño

Dish

Cold Glass Productions

Comedy, Arts, Food, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Nick and Angela welcome one of their favourite comics to Dish HQ. Broadcaster, comedian, writer and conductor Sue Perkins was born in South London. A Cambridge University graduate, Sue’s journey into comedy began when she joined the prestigious Footlights, where she met her friend Mel Giedroyc. The duo quickly made a name for themselves, hosting Channel 4’s Late Lunch and Light Lunch in the nineties, while also writing for the legendary French & Saunders and, later, Absolutely Fabulous in 2003. Her biggest TV job to date came in 2010, when she and Mel cohosted The Great British Bake Off for seven wildly successful series. Outside of television, Sue’s broadcasting credentials include hosting Britain’s best-loved radio comedy Just A Minute on BBC Radio 4. You can watch her new TV show Chess Masters: The Endgame on BBC iPlayer and listen to her new podcast Mel and Sue: Should Know By Now on Audlibe.  Nick pours Sue a Botivo, a non-alcoholic aperitivo, to start, while Angela prepares a mouthwatering Malaysian prawn laksa curry. The experts at Waitrose pair this with a La Val albariño and for dessert Angela makes Sue her favourite black forest gateau. Nick and Angela are (in their words) giddy at the sight of Sue Perkins sitting opposite them and our trio collapse into fits of laughter throughout this conversation. Sue loves to cook and recounts her best and worst food moments. She also talks about the time she met a shaman in a hot tub, and listen out for her incredible response to the End of Show Question. You can now watch full episodes of Dish on YouTube  All recipes from this podcast can be found at waitrose.com/dishrecipes A transcript for this episode can be found at waitrose.com/dish We can’t all have a Michelin star chef in the kitchen, but you can ask Angela for help. Send your dilemmas to [email protected] and she’ll try to answer them in a future episode. Dish is a S:E Creative Studio production for Waitrose Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Dish from Waitrose is an SE creative studio production.

0:04.1

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0:13.0

Not lots of, just the very best of.

0:16.7

Simpson travel, the magical destinations you love, the personal service you expect.

0:23.3

We visit every one of our properties so we can handpick the perfect holiday for you.

0:29.0

SimpsonTravel.com, because your time is precious.

0:34.6

This podcast may contain some strong language and adult themes.

0:44.6

Oh, hello. Welcome to Dish from Waitrose. I'm Nick Grimshaw.

0:48.1

And I'm Angela Hartnett. We are here for another episode of Dish.

0:52.4

Sue Perkins today. Sue Perkins, very excited. Before we get into Sue Perkins, we've had a lot of Dish. Sue Perkins today. Sue Perkins, very excited.

0:55.1

Before we get into Sue Perkins, we've had a lot of demands of a dog update.

0:59.8

Or Betty update.

1:00.5

Yeah.

1:01.0

She had a little issue at daycare for a while.

1:04.2

What kind of issue?

1:05.3

Basically barking at every single dog, not being friendly when new dogs arrive,

1:09.7

being very territorial.

1:10.8

And then what we realised, which I never knew new dogs arrive, being very territorial.

1:15.0

And then what we realised, which I never knew about dogs, if we discussed this, I think we haven't, no, maybe not, that you can over-exercise dogs.

1:18.4

And she was overstimulated. And so we've now reduced daycare by one day.

1:22.9

And she's a much nicer dog.

1:24.9

I never knew that as well, because I have, as you know, pig and stinky blob who you've met.

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