Let’s talk about . . . talking! Conversations are the heartbeat of relationships and yet we so often avoid the sensitive, difficult, intimate, emotional and scary ones. We play it safe and bit by bit our relationships become less intimate, less real, and less satisfying. Join my guests and I, as we explore what makes intimate conversations so scary and why we avoid them. We will talk about how to prepare for them, initiate them and participate in them in ways that deepen intimacy, clarify mi ...
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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, Ja ...
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Intimate stories. Immersively told. Each week, you’ll hear a different writer read a story that they’ve never told before, paired with a bespoke soundscape. Whether it’s something strange, something surprising, something secret, something shameful or just something they haven’t gotten round to putting into words... In this brand new storytelling podcast from Brock Media. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Live at Lunch celebrates Colorado and National artists live in the Ginger & Baker Studio and beyond. KRFC gives bands access to professional audio and video producers to create an hour-long spotlight on the artist through live music, stories, and interviews with the videos featured on KRFC RadioVision’s YouTube page.
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This week on Comfort Eating, Grace is joined by one of the most successful and enduring film stars of the past 40 years: Richard E Grant. The Swaziland-born English actor made his film debut as Withnail in the comedy Withnail and I, and has since starred in the likes of Star Wars, Gosford Park and Saltburn. Richard and Grace chew over the food he a…
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Dave Beegle is one of the most talented, respected, and creative musicians in the state of Colorado. Whether as sideman for various big-name musical acts (Liz Barnez and Taylor Scott among them), head honcho in the eclectic Dave Beegle Acoustic Band, or just letting his classic rock flag fly in the Dave Beegle Blues Band, Dave's incredible command …
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TV presenter Rob Rinder joins Grace in her east London home to share his comfort food. Rob has been on our TV screens for a decade as Judge Rinder on the hit ITV show and, more recently, making documentaries. His 2020 BBC documentary My Family, The Holocaust and Me, about his Jewish heritage, garnered him an MBE for services to Holocaust education …
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In 2019 RADO formed and took up the cause in Denver’s prolific music scene. The band melds together ferocious psychedelic rock music with syncopated dance grooves and stylistic melodies while mixing in thoughtfully crafted lyrical & vocal hooks. The music of RADO is heavily centered around building improvisational jams that reach soaring and everla…
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Joining Grace for a big serving of Comfort Eating is Bafta nominated actress Leila Farzad. Leila is best known for her performance alongside Billie Piper in I Hate Suzie, her Netflix hit show KAOS, and is set to star in the next Bridget Jones film. Grace and Leila ruminate on the moot question of batter versus breadcrumbs, travel back to the Iran o…
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With 3-part harmonies and hot guitar licks, d’Lovelies bring upbeat, danceable tunes to venues around the Front Range. Based in Lyons, Colorado, we play traditional blues, jazz, Western swing, and original Americana. Led by guitarist and songwriter Rob Pate alongside vocalist Erin Friedman and bassist/vocalist Duane Webster, this musical phenomenon…
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Hollywood royalty Stanley Tucci shares his ultimate comfort food with Grace this week. Born in America to Italian parents, Stanley and Grace discuss his love of Italian food, the lows of British food in the 1980s, and exactly which aphrodisiac he and Meryl Streep ate a lot of on set togetherThe Guardian
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When you experience Teresa Storch Band, you first feel the solid, rhythmic energy: the pulse of a meditative ballad or the infectious groove of a jam-rock tune. Next, you notice the catchy, guitar-laden melodies. As your ears dig deeper you’ll find the lyrics pulling at your heart and soul. This is what happens when a singer/songwriter from the Bos…
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Maisie Adam joins Grace in her east London home to share her ultimate comfort food. Maisie is a comedian, writer and actress and one of the most exciting rising stars on the UK comedy circuit. Her critically acclaimed comedy sells out theatres across the land, and has bagged her a regular spot on the TV quiz show circuit. Maisie shares memories of …
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From Backroads Ballads to Boot Stompin' Beats: The Raw Grit and Glory of Damien Gunn Band They ain't your average Nashville darlings, these rough-and-tumble troubadours hailing from the heartland. Damien Gunn Band bleeds red, white, and blue through every sweat-soaked chord and whiskey-soaked lyric. Their music? Forget neatly polished pop-country o…
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Rag’n’Bone Man joins Grace for a new serving of Comfort Eating. Rag’n’Bone Man, AKA Rory Graham, shot to fame in 2016 with his song Human. A couple of albums later, he’s collaborated with an incredible roster of stars, from Gorillaz to P!nk, and his back catalogue has been streamed billions of times. He and Grace discuss how oven chips are always e…
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Graham Good & the Painters
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Graham Good is hailed as the Messiah of Modern Rock (Nick Stock, jambands.com) due to his infectious energy and classic song writing. Specializing in Feel-Good//Funk-Folk-Rock, this group touches on a plethora of genres that help make them an easy band for any new fan to instantly connect with. The band has played iconic Denver venues such as Red R…
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Season eight of Comfort Eating with Grace Dent will kick off on Tuesday 24 September. Join Grace and her celebrity guests, including Richard E Grant, Rag’n’Bone Man and Vanessa Feltz, as they delve into what they love to eat when nobody is watchingThe Guardian
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Heart Medicine is a soulful reggae-pop woman-led band from Fort Collins, Colorado. The band focuses on making music about positivity, celebrating life even when life is hard, and smiling till your cheeks hurt. Don’t be surprised when Amy’s heartfelt lyrics and captivating vocals leave you wanting more. Heart Medicine was initially formed as Amy in …
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Steep Canyon Rangers
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Steep Canyon Rangers is made up of Graham Sharp on banjo and vocals, Mike Guggino on mandolin/mandola and vocals, Aaron Burdett on guitar and vocals, Nicky Sanders on fiddle and vocals, Mike Ashworth on drums and vocals, and Barrett Smith on bass, guitar, and vocals. Over the band’s esteemed career, the three-time Grammy nominees have released 14 s…
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John Craigie John Craigie rallies a closeness around music anchored by his expressive and stirring songcraft, emotionally charged vocals, lively soundscapes, and uncontainable spirit. The Portland, OR-based singer, songwriter, and producer invites everyone into this space on his 2024 full-length album, Pagan Church. Following tens of millions of st…
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The Comfort Eating team is taking a break. So for the next few weeks, we’re looking back at a few of our favourite episodes. In this episode of Comfort Eating, double Bafta winner Big Zuu goes round to Grace’s house for a plate of his ultimate comfort food. They talk about his ‘scandalous’ mother, growing up between extreme wealth and poverty, and …
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The Deborah Solo Trio is a Denver-based indie band that features hooking melodies, guitar, cello, and a percussionist who plays drums, bass, and keys simultaneously. Their lyrics are raw and honest, and often explore belonging in all senses of the word. Since their start in 2014, the trio has performed at many highly regarded Colorado venues, inclu…
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The Comfort Eating team is taking a break. So for the next few weeks, we’re looking back at a few of our favourite episodes. In this episode of Comfort Eating, Eastenders actor and all-round hun Natalie Cassidy pops over for a chat with Grace. She and Grace remember the 90s London club scene, discuss the perils of having a fitness DVD, and how bein…
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Founded by Jimmy Adame and Elliott Miller, Denver-based rock band HOLLOW HEAD first introduced themselves with alternative folk-rock album ‘A Spark of Madness’, drawing comparisons to Radiohead, Bon Iver, and Bear’s Den. The album’s lyrical intimacy and truly alternative musical stylings first made ripples in the Colorado music scene and first put …
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The Comfort Eating team is taking a break. So for the next few weeks, we’re looking back at a few of our favourite episodes. In this episode of Comfort Eating with Grace Dent, comedian Nish Kumar tells Grace about some of the most important moments in his life – and the comfort food that saw him through them. They lament the ‘golden years’ of Pizza…
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The Peter Knudson Quartet is a new project consisting of seasoned musicians who have played together in a number of different settings. Peter Knudson will be debuting his original music in a variety of genres. Peter has spent decades playing drums and percussion with many different groups along the Front Range since 1996 as well as touring in Europ…
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The Comfort Eating team is taking a break. So for the next few weeks, we’re looking back at a few of our favourite episodes. In this episode of Comfort Eating, the pop star Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem, drops into Grace’s kitchen. Their riotous afternoon includes ‘northern women eating carbs’, the joy of buying expensive jumpers, and some u…
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The 14ers is an adventure-inspired music project led by outdoor travel guide and songwriter Ryan Kirkpatrick, based out of Fort Collins, Colorado. Refining their own signature style of Mountaintop Folk-Pop, The 14ers are preparing to release a full-length album stocked with radiant passion, endearing melodies, and refreshingly authentic songs. Ryan…
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This week, Grace takes us on a trip down memory lane to hear some of the best bite-sized tidbits of food tales from seven glorious seasons of Comfort Eating, featuring the likes of Rafe Spall, Scarlett Moffatt and Russell T Davies. We hear the stories of Jay Blades’ school pudding obsession and Russell Tovey’s teenage love of brussels sprouts, and …
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Aquiles is a 5 piece latin rock fusion band with metal influences. The lead vocalist Aquiles started the band over 10 years ago after growing up in the Ecuador music scene. Over the years the band has went through many iderations from salsa to rock and roll switching out band members along the way. In this weeks episode the band is performing songs…
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This week, Grace is joined by east London’s plant-based princess Bimini who shot to fame in 2021, after the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, where they captivated the BBC audience with quippy one liners, high fashion runway looks, and death drops. Although Bimini didn’t snatch the crown, they remain the most-followed UK contestant. Since fil…
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Poudre Valley Playboys
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Poudre Valley Playboys, a collaboration of Colorado guitar phenomenon Josh Long and upright bass aficionado Mark Verschoor, is high-octane classic country-rockabilly-surf music that gets any crowd jumping and hollering within the first few bars. Josh and Mark dig deep into the archives to pull out some overlooked gems of yesteryear in addition to c…
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Grace welcomes the legendary DJ, producer and founder of Soul II Soul, Jazzie B, to the podcast. Over a bowl of ‘yellow’ – one of his childhood comfort foods –Jazzie takes Grace on a journey from playing his sound system, aged 12, at a silver jubilee street party for the Queen, to finding inspiration on tour in Japan and Korea, and on to Buckingham…
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GREEN BUDDHA is Colorado's original NoCoast Reggae Rockers. GREEN BUDDHA’s unique original sound mixes influences from reggae, funk, ska, and New Orleans soul. GREEN BUDDHA is made up of vocalist & guitarist Seth Strickland, bassist & percussionist Matt Grundstad (Euforquestra, Dubskin), Drummer Jonny Jyemo (Jyemo Club, Garret Sayers Trio), keyboar…
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Joining Grace this week is actor and director David Harewood, who found global fame in the hit CIA-thriller Homeland 13 years ago and hasn’t stopped working since. David was born and raised in Small Heath, Birmingham, where he lived with his older siblings and Barbadian parents. He tells Grace about how his mum kept the flavours of the West Indies …
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Soviet Mothers is a three piece indie alt rock band out of Fort Collins Colorado that was formed late in 2015. They describe there sound as Desert Rock, but with strong influences of Goth and New Wave that lend it a unique and often dark quality. Riff heavy guitar work gives way to powerful vocal parts that seek to convey the emotion and gravity of…
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Allan Mustafa joins Grace to share the dish he turns to for comfort food. Allan shot to fame playing MC Grindah in People Just Do Nothing, his Bafta award-winning, semi-autobiographical mockumentary, which was inspired by his early life in south-west London. Allan talks about growing up with his Czech mum and Kurdish dad and eating the ultimate fus…
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Pi Jacobs draws inspiration from her unconventional upbringing in “The Land of Weed and Wine” aka Northern California. Blending roots-rock swagger and storytelling soul, her music has drawn comparisons to Tom Waits, Dolly Parton, and Lucinda Williams. Armed with an old Gibson, a “sultry” (Claremont Courier) “explosive” (Glide Magazine) voice, and a…
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Actor Golda Rosheuvel joins Grace this week to share what she eats when the wigs are off. Golda is best known for her role as the formidable Queen Charlotte in the record-breaking Netflix series Bridgerton. Before Bridgerton fame, Golda’s breakthrough role was playing a female Othello at the Liverpool Everyman, rooting herself as an actor who chall…
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Named one of the Top 10 "Best Local 303 Acts of 2023" by Indie 102.3, Sour Magic is a five-piece band from Denver, CO, known for their unique blend of indie and psychedelic rock and energetic live performances. Formed in 2021 and comprised of musicians from different cities, their diverse perspectives come together to tap into the supernatural to c…
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Joining Grace this week is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed comics and host of the award-winning podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me, Joanne McNally. With a number of sell-out shows and tour dates in the US later this year, they discuss how Joanne uses comedy to process difficult periods in her life, how her mum is her favourite cocktail buddy, and what…
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Ruthless Ginsberg
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Armed only with a mandolin, guitar, bass, drums, and their mighty voice, they roam Colorado's front range sweeping aside mistrust and grief with their anti-establishment melodies and tear-down-the-patriarchy harmonies. Not all heroes wear capes.KRFC 88.9FM Fort Collins
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Katherine Ryan joins Grace this week to share her favourite comfort foods. The Canadian comedian, writer, presenter and actor is best known for her deliciously wicked comedy, delivered with a side dish of couture. Katherine shares memories from her past, including her father’s attempts to bring Indian food to Canada via Ireland, her difficult early…
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Comfort Eating with Grace Dent is back for a seventh course on 11 June. Join her and celebrity guests as they reveal the comfort foods that have seen them through their lives in series sevenThe Guardian
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Al’s Hwy50
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Al’s Hwy50 is a project of Al Laughlin, original member of Colorado band, The Samples. Al’s Hwy50 incorporates Reggae, Ska, Rock and Jazz voicings with melodic vocals and introspective lyrics. Live shows are notoriously lively and danceable.KRFC 88.9FM Fort Collins
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Taylor Scott Band
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For Taylor Scott, nothing is black and white. He operates in the grey areas between genres, creating his own colorful hybrid of roots-rock, funk, soul, and troubadour-style Americana. It's a sound that's as diverse as its creator, whipped into sharp shape by a musician who's equal parts guitar hero and singer/songwriter craftsman.…
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Blue Recluse
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Blue Recluse is a five piece power blues band. They play a wide range of blues, rhythm and blues, and country blues from the ‘40s to the present day. Powerful, sultry vocals in combination with a hard-groovin’ rhythm section and classic electric blues guitar and keys makes this band a blues lover’s dream. Put on your dancing shoes, because Blue Rec…
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A.M. Pleasure Assasins
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A.M. Pleasure Assassins is hiding in the dishwater plans for world domination that slap your ass awake at four in the morning and leave you in a cold sweat, wondering if there’s anything to be done about the whole mess. With a new album out May 18, this Northern Colorado quartet is incensing audiences with their No Wave Post Rock a la Yo La Tengo m…
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Mark Oblinger
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Papamo and The Vipers are a band based out of Boulder, Colorado. Papamo and The Vipers put on an electric and entertaining performance sure to get you moving.KRFC 88.9FM Fort Collins
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Mystee
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Meet Mystee, the indie pop band that rose from the ashes in 2023 and quickly became a Fort Collins staple. Boston-Born and Cardiff-Bred, the band’s founder, Ilana Held, weaves tales of triumph and tribulation, beckoning you into a world where whimsy meets raw emotion. Join Mystee as they embark on a journey of nostalgia, heartbreak, and rock and ro…
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Joining Grace this week is the multi-talented actor, comedian and rapper, Kiell Smith-Bynoe. Long before becoming a household name as the exasperated boyfriend in the hit series Ghosts, Kiell (AKA MC Klayze Flaymz) tells Grace how, as a teenager, he combined his performance skills in the ultimate London arena: the chicken shop. With the taste of su…
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Welsh standup, podcast host and panel show queen, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, brings her finest bowl of scran to Grace’s house. Over this steaming ultra-value concoction, she reveals how her upbringing on a Welsh sheep farm led to a hankering for performance, humour and cheap noodles. Cutting her teeth on the Manchester comedy circuit and finding solace…
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Comfort Eating’s culinary standards might have been permanently raised after two-Michelin-star chef Tom Kerridge’s visit. But he’s not exactly one to show off. Growing up in Gloucester, Tom always wanted to recreate the homely meals he’d find at his local pub or at his mum’s on Sundays. With a brief detour on to the acting stage, Tom started his ca…
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