58 episodes
Comfort Blanket Cheese & Pickle
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4.5 • 13 Ratings
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Talking about the films, TV shows, books or music which people go to again and again to feel safe, happy and welcome.
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"Brilliant... A lovely listen" - Sunday Times
"Highly recommended" - The Week
Selected as one of the Sunday Times' TOP 25 PODCASTS TO MAKE YOU HAPPY
Presented and produced by Joel Morris.
Part of the Cheese And Pickle family of podcasts.
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Ben Stokes' 2019 Ashes Innings - with Ed Morrish
Comedy producer Ed Morrish (Non-Censored, Soundheap, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme) brings his personal comfort blanket, Ben Stokes' 2019 Ashes innings at Headingley against Australia (and more broadly "all sport") to try and persuade Comfort Blanket umpire Joel that it's allowed - and makes a case for sport as the perfect improvised long-form narrative. It's all about the story...
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Allo Allo - with Tom Price
Actor, comedian and broadcaster Tom Price (Torchwood, Magic FM, My Mate Brought A Toaster) talks about the lifelong comfort he draws from Allo Allo, Perry & Lloyd's broad and shameless French resistance farce. Listen very carefully, we will say this only once: it's actually brilliant.
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Kind Hearts And Coronets - with Naomi Alderman
Writer Naomi Alderman (The Power, The Future) chooses as her comfort blanket, the 1949 Ealing black comedy 'Kind Hearts And Coronets', with its mixture of revenge (served cold, of course), and vicious social satire, managing to possess, one might say, "all the exuberance of Chaucer, without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period..."
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Friends - with Larry Rickard (PART TWO)
In the second part of our two part look at definitive 1990s sitcom Friends, Larry Rickard (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) talks about how comedy reflects its times, how audiences want (and don't want) things to change for their favourite comedy characters, and when it's time to say goodbye.
This is PART TWO of a two part episode. If you haven't heard PART ONE, please go back and start there...
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Friends - with Larry Rickard (PART ONE)
Writer and actor Larry Rickard (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) talks about his love for the smash hit 1990s sitcom Friends, and the craft of making warm, gag-filled, ensemble television comedy with your... er... friends.
This is Part ONE of a two part episode.
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Don't Look Now - with Danny Robins
Writer and broadcaster Danny Robins (Uncanny, 2:22 A Ghost Story) talks about the unexpected comforts of Nic Roeg's classic 1973 supernatural thriller Don't Look Now, a masterful study of how humans try and make sense of life, death and the unexplained.
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Customer Reviews
Super comforting
Hello! I found this podcast when I was super anxious and trying to find something to calm down and listen to, well this worked perfectly and I’ll continue to listen as episodes come out!
It you’re wanting something slow to listen and relax to or to help distract yourself this is the perfect podcast for you, even If you don’t know much about films ❤️
Interviewer dominates
This is not an interview show. The host does not let the guest say much. His guests are too polite to push in. I was surprised at the unusually long length of the podcast, over an hour. You soon learn that it is because the host cannot even edit himself post-production. Such a wonderful premised, but it does not delivered as the guest’s “comfort blanket” is confiscated from them so the host can wrap it around himself. Please learn some disciple.
Please let your guests get a word in!
I want to love this show, but after 20 minutes of listening to the host verbally steamroll the brilliant and hilarious Sarah Kendall with his run on ramblings, I had to give up. If you want to listen to amazing guests ONLY say “mhmm, yes, right” because they can’t get a word in, this show is for you. I would have really loved to hear what Sarah Kendall had to say about Muriel’s Wedding. The 2 insights she was allowed to squeeze in between the dude’s bouts of verbal incontinence were wonderful.