On this week’s episode of the Radio Times Podcast is the comedian, Jo Brand. Raised in Kent, she was a student at Tunbridge Wells Girls Grammar School and on a sure-fire path to Oxbridge. However, when her parents attempted to uproot her and move to Hastings, she revolted and left home as a teenager. She got her life back on track after accidentally setting the bed-sit she was living in on fire and trained as a psychiatric nurse – a career she pursued until she made a name for herself in the alternative comedy scene of the 1980s. The rest is history – she’s a BAFTA award-winning actress and a national treasure. In this episode she sits down with Kelly-Anne Taylor to discuss how her nursing days primed her for a career in comedy, how she never had a life-plan and why she never watches herself on panel shows.

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Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week

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SHOW NOTES:

TV:

The Newsreader, BBC2

The Buccaneers, Apple TV+

Beatles Night, BBC2

Louis Theroux Interviews Anthony Joshua, BBC2

Judi Dench This Cultural Life: Shakespeare Special, BBC4

The Secret Genius of Modern Life, BBC2

FILM:

Passages, Mubi

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Happy Viewing!

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To launch series five of the Radio Times Podcast, host Kelly-Anne Taylor is joined by the double-Bafta winning TV chef Big Zuu. Born Zuhair Hassan to a mother from Sierra Leone and a dad from Lebanon, he grew up on the Mozart Estate in West London. He started cooking aged nine to, as he says, ‘help around the house’ when his mother fell pregnant with his younger brother. It was whilst he was studying to become a social worker at University, that he decided to drop out in pursuit of a full-time music career. After making a name for himself as a Grime MC/Rapper, he turned the heads of TV commissioners when he started posting videos of himself on social media cooking. That landed him his Dave show Big Zuu, Big Eats. In this episode, Big Zuu talks about his love of Strictly, why his mum thought he was possessed by the devil and learning Latin with Boris Johnson.

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Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week

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You can get in touch with our hosts on either their soical media, or via email ([email protected]) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode. 

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SHOW NOTES:

TV:

Shetland, BBC1

Time, BBC1

Rhod Gilbert: a Pain the Neck for Stand Up 2 Cancer, C4

Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story, Disney

All The Light We Cannot See, Netflix

Survivor, BBC1

FILM:

Fingernails, Apple TV

THE ARCHIVE:

One of Us, BBCiPlayer

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Join us on the Radio Times Sofa every Tuesday, where we’ll be sitting down with celebrity guests to talk all things telly. What’s the view from their sofa? What do they watch? And who do they watch with? Kicking off our series we have the double-Bafta winning TV chef Big Zuu – which will be available on the 31st Oct. Don’t forget to follow so you never miss an episode!

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Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week

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You can get in touch with our hosts on either their soical media, or via email ([email protected]) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode. 

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SHOW NOTES:

TV:

Three LIittle Birds, ITV1

Planet Earth III, BBC1

The Pideon Tunnel, AppleTV+

Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream!, ITV1

FILMS:

Killers of the Flower Moon, in cinemas now

Spencer, Netflix

THE ARCHIVE:

Small Axe, BBC iPlayer

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Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week

Follow our hosts on Twitter (@KA1_Taylor and @FrostReporter) and Instagram (@kellyannect and @frostreporter) 

You can get in touch with our hosts on either their soical media, or via email ([email protected]) and Spotify users can write in directly using the Q&A box at the bottom of the episode. 

SHOW NOTES:

TV:

The Ex-Wife, C5 

Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Christie, Disney+

Bangers: Mad for Cars, Channel 4

Pride of Britain: a Windrush Special, ITV1

FILM:

Fair Play, Netflix

HAPPY TV:

Detectorists, BBC iPlayer

Gogglebox, Channel 4

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Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week

SHOW NOTES:

TV:

The Reckoning, BBC One

Payback, ITV

Lessons in Chemistry, Apple TV+

Big Brother, ITV

Big Little Journeys, BBC2

FILM:

Licorice Pizza, BBC2

FROM THE ARCHIVE:

Gosford Park, Amazon Freevee

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Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week

SHOW NOTES:

TV:

Partygate, Channel 4 

Portrait Artist of the Decade, Sky Arts

Beckham, Netflix 

The Deepest Breath, Netflix

RADIO:

Young Again – Kirsty Young, Radio 4

FILM:

Ali and Ava, BBC2

FROM THE ARCHIVE:

The West Wing, Channel4.com

The Thick of It, BBC iPlayer

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Caroline Frost chats to Kelly-Anne Taylor about the best things coming up on the box this week

SHOW NOTES:

TV:

Long Shadow, ITV

Delhi Crime, Netflix 

Black Snow, BBC4 and Amazon Prime

Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons, Netflix 

Who Killed Jill Dando, Netflix

FILM:

Woman King, Now

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