Latest Desert island Podcast Episodes
Desiree Burch
My Mate Bought A Toaster - April 24, 2024 03:17 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsAll the way from New York to Taskmaster, Desiree is one of the most popular comics in the UK right now. Funny, honest, and with quite possibly the best laugh we've had on the show ever, this is a belter of an episode. For extra bits and bobs head over to our Patreon, and for our brand spanking...
Nish Kumar
My Mate Bought A Toaster - April 17, 2024 03:27 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsNish Kumar! A romp through vinyl, books and .... well that's it because he hasn't got an Amazon account. Amazingly though we still manage to cover off plenty of topics including REM, REM, REM and how he's a DC Gideon. Don't forget loads of our episodes are on our YouTube channel so head over ...
Paul Foot
My Mate Bought A Toaster - April 10, 2024 03:12 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis week we welcome and revel in the delights of Paul Foot, who has an extensive (one item) Amazon Shopping History. Prepare for an astounding voyage into murals, late night baths and the Second Sleep. As ever you can find loads of extra Toaster goodies over at our Youtube Channel. Don't forg...
Katherine Ryan
My Mate Bought A Toaster - April 03, 2024 03:49 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsOh hey there and welcome to another episode of My Mate Bought a Toaster. This week we meticulously go through the Amazon Purchase history of Katherine Ryan. Who knew that what she bought on Amazon could lead to chats about: Putting a Falcon in your private parts The value of vinegar Katherin...
Caimh Mcdonnell
My Mate Bought A Toaster - March 27, 2024 04:50 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsHiya and welcome back to a less damaging version of mining in the Amazon. We tell people's life stories via their Amazon purchase histories, and our guest this week is the former comedian and current novelist Caimh Mcdonnell. The highlights of this week's bought-o-biography include some excell...
Emmanuel Sonubi
My Mate Bought A Toaster - March 20, 2024 04:37 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis week we manage to fit Tom and Emmanuel Sonubi onto our tiny Amazon confessional sofa. Emmanuel is a man whose Amazon past reveals a guy who enjoys swearing at kids, hasn't seen a Tom Cruise film for ages and also has a very important set of bathroom scales. And much, much more. Make sure ...
Matt Richardson
My Mate Bought A Toaster - March 13, 2024 04:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsMatt Richardson's here look! A romp through his shopping catalogue reveals flight simulation, how much he got offered for some dirty socks, what happens when you sulk on Mastermind and SO MUCH MORE. As ever don't forget to check out our Patreon and our TikTok and Instagram. And please do lik...
John Kearns
My Mate Bought A Toaster - March 06, 2024 04:20 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsHere we are then with another rummage through the purchase history of an innocent member of the entertainment community. This week it's the turn of John Kearns, a funny and delightful human who enjoys nothing more than taking people around the Houses of Parliament and reading TS Eliot. He als...
Karan Gokani the founder of Hoppers on his love of Sri Lanka, his passion for cooking and the best dish he's ever eaten
Desert Island Dishes - February 29, 2024 10:11 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsMy guest today is the founder of Hoppers - Karan Gokani. Combining his passion for cooking with his love of the country of Sri Lanka he has built a restaurant empire celebrating the food of Sri Lanka and Southern India. I went to Sri Lanka last year for the first time and completely fell in love...
HELEN THORN
My Mate Bought A Toaster - February 28, 2024 04:41 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsHello Toasters Welcome to the latest episode with the awesome comedian Helen Thorn, who is part of the BRILLIANT Scummy Mummies. This week we talk about weird flat coincidences, coffee machines and also why World Book Day will never quite be the same again. Don't forget to give us a review if...
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Ravneet Gill (mini episode)
Desert Island Dishes - February 27, 2024 06:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsThis week we have Ravneet Gill on The Dream Dinner Party– she is an extraordinary pastry chef who just makes the most amazing cakes and puddings. She’s also a TV presenter and cook book author – her third – Baking for Pleasure is out now and it’s all about baking for the pure joy of it. She has ...
Bee Wilson, food writer and historian on what comfort food means to her, the joy of potatoes and her 7 Desert Island Dishes
Desert Island Dishes - February 22, 2024 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsMy guest today is Bee Wilson. In all honesty, Bee is one of the most interesting and thought provoking food writers and historians we’ve ever known. She is the author of 8 books about food and eating. Her books have won multiple awards, and she’s won 5 Guild of food writers awards for her journ...
Ravneet Gill
My Mate Bought A Toaster - February 21, 2024 04:53 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsHello and welcome back to yet more Amazon snooping This week it's the turn of the glorious Ravneet Gill to allow Tom to have a look through her order history in order to tell her life story. Cooking, hard work, terrible dates, annoying colleagues you end up marrying. A cat kennel. It's all her...
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Zena Kamgaing (mini episode)
Desert Island Dishes - February 20, 2024 09:55 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsThis week we have Zena Kamgaing on The Dream Dinner Party. I love bringing you Desert Island dishes but I also selfishly do love the dream dinner party – it’s a just a little bit of fun, I love how everyone of the guests have really embraced the theme and taken it seriously – in a very unserious...
David Loftus the photographer whose work has resulted in more than 30 million book sales on the dishes that have shaped him
Desert Island Dishes - February 15, 2024 09:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsMy guest this week is the world famous photographer David Loftus. David is one of the most influential photographers of all time often fondly referred to as Lord Loftus. Award-winning and internationally acclaimed, David has done the photography for the books of Jamie Oliver, Rachel Khoo, Gennar...
Catherine Bohart
My Mate Bought A Toaster - February 14, 2024 04:54 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis week on My Mate Bought A Toaster, comedian Catherine Bohart takes us on a deep dive into her Amazon Purchase History in order to tell her life story. There are break ups, pillows, peanut butter, bedding, a panic purrrrchase, peanut butter and a Scotchguardian Angel waiting for you at the ...
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Rick Stein (mini episode)
Desert Island Dishes - February 13, 2024 08:45 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsHi I’m Margie Nomura and welcome to another episode of our side side dish: The Dream Dinner Party. This is the mini episode where we invite a guest to tell us all about their dream dinner party. And this week we have the one and only Rick Stein – I know so many of you loved his episode of Desert...
Claudia Roden one of the greatest food writers of all time on the dishes that have shaped her
Desert Island Dishes - February 08, 2024 09:45 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsWe are back! For a short mini series but back nonetheless! I missed you! And I'm very excited that today my guest today is Claudia Roden. Described as the food writer who never goes out of fashion. She began collecting recipes in 1956, while a student in London. The Suez crisis of that year tur...
Keith Brymer Jones
My Mate Bought A Toaster - February 07, 2024 04:18 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsOh would you look at this! A brand new series of Toasterpod has begun. Thanks for being there with your ears, as we set out onto a whole new load of Amazon Purchase Histories. This week the crying clay man, Keith Brymer Jones, allows Tom into his online shopping history. From there we’ll leap i...
Rick Stein on his accidental journey to become a restaurateur, his enduring love of fish and the best dish he's ever eaten
Desert Island Dishes - November 16, 2023 06:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsMy guest today is Rick Stein. A highly requested guest, I hope you all enjoy this as much as I did recording it. Rick is, of course, a chef, restaurateur, cook book author and television presenter. He has written over 25 cookery books, a memoir and made over 30 television programmes. His latest ...
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Donna Hay (mini episode)
Desert Island Dishes - November 14, 2023 06:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsThis week we have Donna Hay on the mini episode The Dream Dinner Party. Donna is the much loved and respected queen of cooking in Australia – she’s got a new cookbook out Even More Basics to Brilliance – which is the follow up to her first of this series. I was honoured to host Donna's supperclu...
Zena Kamgaing on how she's only eaten her favourite sandwich once in the last 10 years, how her cooking has evolved and getting her big break with Jamie Oliver.
Desert Island Dishes - November 09, 2023 06:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsMy guest today is Zena Kamgaing. Zena describes herself as a passionate home-chef, recipe creator and food enthusiast. Before going full time as a freelance recipe creator, She worked for a charity and ran their anti human trafficking initiative, worked for a food media company as head of ops b...
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Clodagh McKenna (mini episode)
Desert Island Dishes - November 07, 2023 06:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsThis week we have Clodagh McKenna on our mini episode: The Dream Dinner Party. Clodagh is so much fun. She makes the most delicious food but she also makes the setting and everything look so beautiful. You’ll have seen her cooking on ITVs this morning, as well as her brilliant instagram videos s...
Ed Gamble, comedian, podcaster and now author on his relationship with food, his passion for the cheeseboard and his unusual plan to escape from the island
Desert Island Dishes - November 02, 2023 06:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsMy guest today is Ed Gamble Ed is a comedian, an actor, host of the Off Menu podcast amongst others, and judge on the Great British Menu. He can now also add author to his bio of credentials as his debut book Glutton has just been published. His career in comedy began at Durham university per...
BONUS: Rachel Belle from Your Last Meal on her seven Desert Island Dishes
Desert Island Dishes - October 31, 2023 06:27 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsMy guest today is Rachel Belle Rachel is an award winning journalist with over 20 years of experience. She lives in Seattle and is the creator & host of Your Last Meal, a James Beard Award finalist for Best Podcast, Her food writing has been published in places like Lucky Peach, Eater and The...
Russell Norman on the first time he fell in love with Venice and why ugly food is always the most delicious
Desert Island Dishes - October 26, 2023 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsMy guest today is Russell Norman Known as The Restaurant Man. He is a writer, broadcaster and award winning founder of celebrated restaurants with first THE POLPO restaurant group and now BRUTTO. Hailed as “London’s coolest restaurateur” and having been described as the man who saved restaur...
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Donal Skehan (mini episode)
Desert Island Dishes - October 24, 2023 05:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsToday’s guest on The Dream Dinner Party is Donal Skehan who is so much fun and who has been on Desert Island Dishes before – a few years ago but defiitrly worth having a listen to his main episode as it’s a goodie. I think he was in the very early days when I just turned up with basically a litt...
Sarah Wilson on building (and ultimately giving away) her I Quit Sugar empire and the dishes that have shaped her life
Desert Island Dishes - October 19, 2023 04:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsMy guest today is Sarah Wilson Sarah started I Quit Sugar in 2011 as a lifestyle experiment for a column she was writing. This led to an e-book, then three New York Times bestsellers and a business that saw 1.5 million people signing up to an eight-week nutrition programme. But as time went on,...
Side Dish: The Dream Dinner Party with Madeleine Shaw (mini episode)
Desert Island Dishes - October 17, 2023 05:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsThis week we have Madeleine Shaw, is a nutritional therapist based in London as the guest on this weeks episode of our side dish: The Dream Dinner Party. Interesting fact for you, I’ve done one live recording of Desert Island Dishes and Maddie was the guest! So if you want to go back and listen...
Jon Watts, chef and cookbook author on discovering his passion for food and how he completely turned his life around
Desert Island Dishes - October 12, 2023 05:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsYou may well know Jon from his friendly, down-to-earth cooking videos online where he has amassed a huge following of avid fans but what you may not know is that Jon is where he is today through a lot of hard work and determination to turn his life around completely. He left school at the age o...
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