EPISODE SYNOPSIS This is an EXCITING ONE! Fresh from a morning gym session and seated in her Spitalfields’ kitchen, 2 Michelin starred chef Angela Hartnett MBE joins host Anna Barnett for this week’s episode of The Filling podcast where Angela shares stories of growing up in the family fish and chip shop, working with Gordon Ramsay for 17 years and how it feels to be the only woman in a kitchen of male chefs. The answer to that may surprise you. EPISODE NOTES 03:30 – 05:30) Angela admits to...

EPISODE SYNOPSIS Musical husband and wife duo, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Richard Jones, sit down in their London home with The Filling host Anna Barnett to chat about how they met and Sophie’s chat-up lines, the importance of music in their lives and how to feed a family of 7 during lockdown. Here’s a clue: lots of cereal and lots of milk. Also on the table are Sophie on Strictly, falling over on stage, and falling pregnant 6 weeks into dating. EPISODE NOTES 06:30 – 08:30) Ever wondered what...

EPISODE SYNOPSIS Buckle up podcast listeners as this week we’ll be taking a worldwide culinary tour with effervescent chef Luke Holder. We’re heading to the Middle East, China, Thailand, Italy and landing in the New Forrest where our lucky host Anna Barnett meets Luke in the beautiful grounds of the Lime Wood Hotel where, with Angela Hartnett, he heads up the Hotel’s restaurant ‘Hartnett, Holder and Co’. EPISODE NOTES 03:15 – 04:50) Luke affirms his commitment to local produce and how his...

EPISODE SYNOPSIS “ANNYEONG!” Have you eaten? If not, don’t worry because this week’s episode of The Filling podcast comes to you from the home of Rejina Pyo and Jourdan Bourke, the fashion designer and chef powerhouse couple behind the award-winning cookbook, ‘Our Korean Kitchen’. Host Anna Barnett discovers how South Korea and Ireland share some surprising cultural similarities: drinking and dancing mainly. They also discuss sustainability in fashion, one dish restaurants, and...

EPISODE SYNOPSIS It’s the meeting of the two Annas today as Barnett meets Jones in the new episode of The Filling podcast. Speaking from her newly renovated Hackney home, chef, food writer and stylist Anna Jones weaves her journey from an Economics degree to chef training and working at Jamie Oliver’s 15 restaurant, to writing her first published recipes and cookbooks incorporating her commitment to vegetarianism. A prolific recipe writer (as well as cookbook and ceramics collector) Anna...

EPISODE SYNOPSIS Beautiful Bruton in Somerset is the destination for this week’s The Filling podcast as Anna Barnett joins chef and restaurateur Merlin Labron-Johnson in his 15 th Century home to chat about his illustrious career beginning with his training in classical French cuisine, to his successful return to London and opening 3 restaurants in 5 years (including a Michelin star), and his eventual move to Somerset where he now runs The Old Pharmacy, a French style épicerie, and Osip, a...

EPISODE SYNOPSIS Joining host Anna Barnett on this week’s episode of the Filling podcast is cook, food stylist, presenter, and author of 30 award-winning cookbooks Donna Hay. Zooming in from her oceanside Sydney home (swoon) Donna recounts her early days as a fledging food stylist and recipe developer through to managing her current food and cooking empire which incorporates writing, TV, her eponymous magazine and online store, and not forgetting hosting live cookalongs for over 4000 people...

EPISODE SYNOPSIS For Ravinder Bhogal, cook, writer & restaurant owner, food storytelling is an integral part of her work ethos and what drives the flavour combinations that make it to her menus. In this inspiring episode of The Filling podcast, Ravinder explains to Anna Barnett that restaurants are spaces for humanity where you see the spectrum of emotions, and if you can understand someone’s food you can understand their culture. Ravinder’s is a life story packed with exploration,...

Deep in lockdown on both sides of the Atlantic, rock ‘n’ roll enfant terrible Kelly Osbourne Zooms in from LA to join Anna Barnett in London for a raucous, insightful, and poignant episode of The Filling podcast. It’s boss and former employee reunited (did you know that back in the day Anna was Kelly’s assistant?) where they examine lifestyle transformations, new TV projects (EXCLUSIVE!), Sharon’s lack of cooking skills, and Kelly’s much treasured Chicken Cottage keyring. Serious question:...

EPISODE SYNOPSIS When chef and food writer Rachel Khoo isn’t running in -12 degrees Stockholm, she is creating TV shows, writing cookbooks, judging The Great British Menu, and being a mum (not necessarily in that order). In other words, she’s a force of creative nature intent on using 2021 for self-improvement and developing a whole host of new work projects. In this episode of The Filling with Anna Barnett podcast, Zooming in from her home in the Swedish capital, Rachel shares her...

EPISODE SYNOPSIS Founder and head chef of Brat restaurant, Tomos Parry, talks to Anna Barnett about converting a former east end strip club into his Michelin starred restaurant, the influence of Basque cooking on his menu, and the transportive power of food and eating, in this episode of The Filling podcast. Mid lockdown, Anna and Tomos discuss the need for hospitality side projects in a struggling industry, and how creating a convivial working culture is beneficial for team and customer. As...

Singer, song writer, activist, and Anna’s former landlord, Dan Gillespie-Sells, is the guest on this week’s The Filling with Anna Barnett. Catching-up in Dan’s Victorian pub home in east London, the old friends chat through Dan’s musical journey from attending the Brit School at 16, forming his band The Feeling, learning his craft performing 10 shows a week in the Alps, and diversifying into musical theatre. As Dan’s pub is where Anna lived for 10 years, they also remember the many pop- ups...

‘Move, munch, meditate’ is nutritionist and writer Madeleine Shaw’s philosophy for positive lifestyle change. Madeleine is the guest on this week’s episode of The Filling with Anna Barnett. Madeleine and Anna also get to grips with establishing joy in your diet by ‘crowding in, not cutting out’, the importance of vegetable diversity for gut health, Madeleine’s strict Nokia only policy at the weekend (no smartphones here) and topless gyms. Yes, gyms where you work out topless (and...

Anna Barnett today joins Melissa Hemsley in her east London kitchen, resplendent with built-in wok and teppanyaki grill, to discuss the pleasures of dining alone (and not just to chat up the waiters), how the vibrancy of Filipino cuisine is having a moment, reusing leftovers, and the importance of a well-stocked freezer should you find yourself in A&E after a tumble down the stairs. The only thing standing in the way of Anna’s hand-crafted sandwich this week is an uninvited spider Melissa...

Anna Barnett visits the north London kitchen of chef and TV presenter Andi Oliver and her daughter, Miquita, in this episode of her podcast, The Filling. Together they explore Andi’s career through music (best friend is Neneh Cherry klaxon!) to food broadcasting, and a certain mother/daughter road trip through Cambodia where the driving definitely was not shared (you do have a license right, Miquita?). Along the way we learn about a new restaurant venture with Fred Sirieix, talk inspirational...

We’re in culinary heaven in this week’s episode of Anna Barnett’s podcast, The Filling, as our host is invited to the home of Sami Tamimi, renowned Palestinian chef.

Get ready for an hilarious, equal parts couple’s therapy, equal parts life coaching session (with a bit of food talk thrown in), as Anna Barnett chats to UK fashion’s power couple, Henry Holland and David Hodgson, for the fourth instalment of her new podcast, The Filling. The conversation weaves us through how they met, their successful career paths, and how being northern keeps them grounded in a capricious industry. What we all really want to know, however, is, just how big was David’s...

Chatting to Anna this week, for episode 3 of her new podcast The Filling, is nutritionist and best-selling author Amelia Freer. Anna and Amelia bond over a shared ‘cooking as meditation’ philosophy with Amelia explaining how positive nutrition should be about what you include in your diet, and not what you exclude. Beige foods are also discussed as well as the best hangover meals (tuna mayonnaise and sweetcorn for Amelia). We also learn how a tenure working for Prince Charles shaped a shift...

In the second episode of her new podcast series, The Filling, Anna Barnett visits award winning actor, Russell Tovey, in his warehouse flat to learn about lateral living, how Elton John signs off his text messages, his passion and commitment to art and design, as well as his pescatarianism. Russell also shares with Anna his motivation for acting, including some of his favourite roles, and his ambition for the future. Three questions remain; is that an alien penis in one of the artworks on his...

In this opening episode of her brand new podcast, chef and food writer Anna Barnett, sits down with Radio 1 and TV presenter (not forgetting GQ’s Best Dressed Man 2014) Nick Grimshaw to discuss his childhood food memories growing up in Oldham, his after-dinner trumpet playing, how moving to London set him on a course for his dream job, and the contents of his well-stocked fridge. Tomatillo relish, anyone? Oh, and Nick also personally makes Anna his sandwich of choice. What will it be? And,...