Grace’s guest on Comfort Eating this week is one of the most famous faces on Channel 4 News for more than 20 years, Krishnan Guru-Murthy. He talks about some of the most important moments in his life – and the comfort food that has seen him through them. They discuss food before marriage, dancing to Jamiroquai and annoying Hollywood stars

S1 E9: Krishnan Guru-Murthy, journalist

From school dinners to sofa snacks – food has a huge part to play in shaping our story - and your favourite celebs have some delicious tales to tell. Join Grace Dent and celebrity guests as she throws the cupboard doors open and chats life through food. Expect to hear from guests (actors from TV, movie, theatre and film; sportspeople, comedians, chefs…) such as: Katie Price, Jamie Laing, Natalie Cassidy, Kathy Burke, Jon Ronson, Shirley Ballas, Nadiya Hussain, James Norton, Graham Norton, Jamie Demetriou, Michael Ball, Alfie Boe, Amma Asante, Jay Blades, Michelle DeSwarte, Gaz Coombes, Georgia Pritchett, Fern Brady, Jayde Adams, Adam Kay, Jaime Winstone, Malorie Blackman, Dawn O’Porter, Neneh Cherry, Greg Rutherford, Goldie, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, Marian Keyes, Rufus Wainwright, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Big Zuu, Eddie Marsan, Self Esteem, James May, Guy Garvey, Dave Myers, Jo Brand, Craig David, Bernardine Evaristo, Tom Watson, Rosie Jones, Laura Whitmore, Desiree Burch, Russell Tovey, Stephen Fry, Deborah Meaden, Munya Chawawa, Aisling Bea, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Candice Carty-Williams, Lawrence Chaney, Siobhán McSweeney, Scarlett Moffatt, Joanne McNally, Mae Martin, Rafe Spall, Nish Kumar, Bridget Christie, Mary McCartney, Keith Brymer Jones, Adjoa Andoh, Tamsin Greig, Tom Kerridge, Katherine Ryan, Golda Rosheuvel, Suranne Jones and, David Baddiel, Amol Rajan and Russell T Davies. Comfort Eating is a one-to-one interview. In Grace’s kitchen, her guests discuss their lives in the context of food, cooking and cuisine. They talk about comfort food and snack recipes. The tone of the podcast is: warm, comforting, chatty, feel good, cheering, heart warming, comical and amusing. It’s inspiring but also escapism. It’s funny, comedy, laugh out loud / LOL, entertaining, humourous, inspirational, hilarious, illuminating, memorable, uplifting, soothing, reassuring, cheery and entertaining. Expect to hear humour, discussion, gossip and revelation. Grace's new Comfort Eating book, inspired by the podcast, is out now. It’s a wonderfully scrumptious, life-affirming journey through the foods that really mean the most to us.

Share S1 E9: Krishnan Guru-Murthy, journalist

Sign up to save your podcasts

S1 E9: Krishnan Guru-Murthy, journalist

S1 E9: Krishnan Guru-Murthy, journalist

More shows like Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

Politics Weekly UK

Science Weekly

Desert Island Discs

The Audio Long Read

Australian Politics

Walking The Dog with Emily Dean

Desert Island Dishes

Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware

The Reckoning

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Breathless: the death of David Dungay Jr

Beyond the Blade

Today in Focus

White Wine Question Time

The Gene Gap: Common threads

Forgotten Stories of Football

Temporary

Alan Carr's 'Life's a Beach'

Guardian Australia Reads

Weekend

Dish

The Guardian's Women's Football Weekly

Can I tell you a secret?

Off Air with Jane & Fi

Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph

Australia v the climate

Where There's A Will, There's A Wake

Brydon &

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Young Again

The Louis Theroux Podcast

Black Box

Miss Me?

Who screwed millennials?