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With agents who close twice as many deals, when you find the one, you've got a real shot at getting it. Get started at redfin d. com own the dream Hi, Sam. We've got Allison Steedman and Larry Lama on the show today. veryer, very important esteemed VIP. We've known them for years. they are very close to us. We love them with all our heart. Aa? I'm sure I'm playing spacey You are perfect. you can't let us down. what have you got for them? So to start with, we're gonna have Spanish omelet, as a nod toan. Like it Like From Gavin and Stacy fromom Gavvin and Stacy, that little known show. Have you had any nice memorable meals with your new family The memorable meals. No. G guys. Alison doesn't even like custard. And then we're gonna have roast chicken and that's roast's gonna roast over some thymed doough from my potatoes. Oh you get all the nice juices in that? It shot all that. I'm not sure about this. And then for pudding, bread pudding, 'cause George, Larry's son said that's his favourite pudding. Oh now, see, I've never had bread pudd day. It's delicious. But that's making my head straight to bread and butter pudding. There's no bread in it. There might even be butter in it but it's slightly different. It's all ripped. So rather than like in slices, we're gonna rip it all up, put it in a dish, pour like a custard mix over baked Delicious. Both of them. All they shared was hatred in me, a boomer Certainly born with a bang. Oh My God. Larry thinking brilliant. O question will there be custed? They will have be custed. Right Well you better go and get on with them? Okay. Hello Alison, Stefman and Larry Lamb. Oh my God. It' so exciting being with you today. Thank you for coming over for dinner and joining us on table for four Yes We're going to have some drinks and a starter, but before they arrive We're going to do some quick fire questions. Larry, out of the pair of you, who would you say is the best cook? Oh that was didn't even enough to think about it. I didnn't even en have to think about that one. Are we allowed to lie? Now I would like to know out of the pair of you, who finishes their plate first You're slow. Yeah, I'm not a ye fast e. I'm a bolter, you know.. I eat too fast. I've slowed down a lot as I get older, but I can remember sitting around with you eating meals, you know, and you think, she's not going get this finished And who does the washing app Me definitely whilst having a rout with everybody because they only live in and out of a washing up machine. Oh, do you own a washing machine? a washing up machine? Y washher I. I don't use it. Yeah. use it. I wash the I like to wash the dishes. It's like I've been away on a job sometimes for weeks and weeks and weeks staying in some hotels or something. First thing I want to do is get and put my hands in hot soapy water and wash dishes. And I know I'm back at home. Larry's was a man, isn't he? a man? I don't know. I conffirmed's bit of a womber I love washing up, but since dishwashers I use dishwasher. but I cannot load them apparently. So every time I put something in, I just hear my wife's voice going, wrrong. But you do have to, you know, youve got to load it properly. I know Larry, I know know I hear this. learn, you'll learn Do you know, I only discovered the other day that my husband, you know where the cutlery is, I always thought that when I opened that drawer to put the stuff away, I was like, Oh my go, this is amazing. All the knives are together, the forks are together, the spoons. that's happened and you just scoop them, put them straight in and it makes it really fast. And he said Yes, it's because I put them in in you know that order. so it makes it easy for you to do. and I thought it was just happening just purely by accident and it was just really amazing. What in the machine I always this was kind of together because our dishwasher, you pull out and it's got sections Yeah, your liar was put knives together, spoons together, the forks together because it just makes it easier. Well, I've never that. I've never been that nife. how to wash up properly. That's what you do before you wash it. You wash things in their groups. in their groups. Yeah. consid. you have dirty dishes, you have to make your plates dirty with food. Sam, What have we got here now? I thought you never stopped talking. I've got you've got a Spanish omelette to start. omelet Alice S. Alice, I don't, I'm not being mean, but I've given you a smaller bit because you just said you take ages to eat So if you finish it in time, you can have the other half But we have got a we've got a time limit. Hey up You're giving Alison O Darling. Crumbs. This smallest bet. Do you know how lucky you are? I am very hungry. It has to be second because You can have a bit of mine 'cause I'm not particularly hungry. The other half's here, you just have it when you finished that Okay got say sam, this is meager. Thank you. This is quite meager. I thought you were checking my waistline where you gave me a small portion which I couldn't understand You've got a non alcoholic beer for Mary. Matt's got his favourite fizzy drink Alison, you've got a gin in tonic, minus the gin And you've got your favourite, Joe. What a nice sweet rose? Oh my gosh, I've got a sweet am I the only one who's drinking alcohol? Sweet rose, is it I like a rose, but it must be dried Oh I have a I like it really really sweet. The last time I remember us all sitting around the table was when we were doing a scene on Garavin and Stacy and it was the one where I had curlers in my hair and we were getting ready to go to the church for Smithy's wedding. and James and Baby Neil come in together And they're standing there. And I remember I was in f of gigars and I think that's the last time The four of us were sitting around a table together Yeah Yeah. I man U three have sat around the table many times on Gevin and Stacy. fourour of us. Parent That was the last time. That was the last time. The Spanish ot omelette is obviously a reference to the He heavily featured omelet in Govern's Dacey and today it is nineteen years since the first ever episode was broadcast, which means it's twenty years since we' filmed the show. Yeah But well, here we go. And it's an extraordinaryone changed. None of us have changed. We haven't. but all still exactly the same The omelette is really good, man. It's lovely. Oh good I'm.. It's really nice. Is it as good as Gwen's? You know what Actually, I think it's actually better. It's a bit more exciting. Yeah Exactly. It's a bit more than just exgging. Yeah, yeah. I'm told, Allison and Lurry, that you first met in nineteen ninety seven Is that when it was? On the missing postman. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. were I think we were actually husband and wife in it, but we never got together on screen as husband and wife. Really? There was some weird thing. Right. Beause there was something going on, like mur wasas there some sort of murder or something going on there? Pumably the postman was missing. Ie it was The postmoman was miss him. We went all the way to Scotland find him. And that was over a decade, just over a decade before you got Gavvin and Stacy. Yeah, I see. What did you think when you first met each other to like, you know sort of start reading together and everything with Gavvin and Stacey and did you just like jell straight away? Well, I mean, it's a different experience for you I went in and did my audition and when I got home my agianent phone said outigo, I said, Well, I think they like me, but I'm not sure the director was al together convinced. Yeah. And soundally was your found but she said you're right They did all like you, but she isn't convinced. so they want you to come back again in a day or two's time and do it with Allison. because the first time I read it with Ruth reading in for Allison, And so our experience of meeting like was on set in that office there in Soho somewhere doing being us two together. Yeah. And I initially refused to come and do it because Yeah I just thought this is so wrong. They should just cast Larry because he's so good and so right. And I thought, why you know It's embarrassing for me because I know Larry to have to and then Yeah. I think it was Chris Gurnan you know, got in touch with me and she said, lookook, if you don't come, I'll have to read in. And I thought, Oh, that's not gonna to help. No No to you come along. Yeah that was asked. Did you have to read with other Micks One of other mix. Oh my god, what was he like Oh he was lovely. There was an actor that I knew. Well, sur prrice of prices He's come along for the twentieth anniversary because. He's loved every minute of it. No, it just felt right. It felt right from the start. It did. It did from day one M You know, we didn't have to sort of do anything except just No. You be funnny and me be straight. That was it. It was the same for Joe and I when we all fashioned. Yeah We had to do a chemistry casting, yeah. Yeah, we didad. I had to read with two Stacies Yeah. And I just went in and read with him and yeah, that was it, wasn't that? Yeah. And they tried you with other people before. They just arrived at you with the two they were going I'd read with another actress for Stacy justust before Joe came in. Yeah. Right. Right. I didn't have to read with anybody else. I'd gone and done my audition. That all went well and then they said, willill you come back in then and read with Matthew Horne? And I was scared because I thought, o my gosh, he's so, you know, comedy and funny and he's just, you know I thought he was really cool And so I was very scared when I went in to read with him. But yeah, and you just read with the other actress before me and yeah Yeah, her accent was better, but you acc. Well, I wouldn't be surprised if it was because Ruth had said to me, willill you go in into do a cardiff accent? And so I didn't even know what a cardiff accent was really like and I made no attempt to do it. I just thought I'm going to make it up on the spot. She had to take me out and say, What are you doing? Will you just go back to speaking like you normally spoke like? and so I went back in and then The rest is history. Can you remember back to that first table read what you thought about the show Yeah. Do you remember I'll read through But it's funnest always the funniest thing. not funny. Its always the most significant thing when you read it around the table because then then you know how it's going to be because all you've done is sat home reading it yourself. Yeah. I remember the first time I met Joe Hm. It was the first rehearsal, I think, you know, or read through whatever And I walked in and And you ran across the room And she went, Aa I know I'm playing stay seep. You are perfect. I couldouldn't be more perfect. And then you came across And you just went, I am mad I'm playing. And I just thought the two of you I thought this couldn't be better casting. It was Yeah. Well it had to be, didn't it? Because that's the only way it was going to work. If you two the audience, you took them with you as you fell in love on screen right before their very eyes. It's a big job though, wasn't it? It's a nine eight or nine ensemble, you know? They don't really get that anymore You know, everybody had to be on was tasting. I mean, it is amazing that I mean, as a family, we all just geraled straighta away, didn't we? We're working together. can you ever remember what has been the most memorable meal that you've both had together were on set or Well, I'd say just actually in life or on set. What's been a really good memory? Be I mean, aside from Gavin and Stace, you did that fab show where you were going from Barry all the way, you know to Billerick, the whole entire route where, you know you basically did a road trip together. What was your most memorable meal on that Well, mine, is we were They set up a table and waitress and we had a menu and we chose our food. And for some reason I don't ask why. I chose a soup with chili in it. And they brought this soup and the soup was delicious. I had a couple of spoonfuls and we were being filmed chatting away. And then suddenly the sneezes started and I couldn' stop sneezing And then I'd say sorry, sorry carry on. And then I know that it just went on. And I remember the camera ice in the end saying Alison that's eight sneezes you've not. And I do have this thing where I suddenly get sneezes and I can't stop Yeah. But it never happens on film Normally, no. but because I'd have this chili soup, just set it off. It was hilarious. I have a question for you. If you were to open a restaurant together, o d, what would the concept be? Would there be a particular cuisine or would it be a conceptual thing? And who would be front of house and who would be doing the cooking Well God that's an interesting one. I mean we could do turns about, you know what I mean? You're out the front today, I'm doing the cooking and then I'm out the front tomorrow, you're doing the cooking. I think that can get us both out of jam because I can't see you being out the front really say Oh I don't like these people Sohould we just tell it to go away Sorry, love, we're closed. But yeah, I don't know. Would you focus on French cuisine, Larry? Oh no, no, no, no. I mean, if I could focus on any cuisine I would always focus on Italian would you know? Well yeah, I mean, you know for me there is nothing to come near it, you know, that's it. I mean, I love oriental food, all sorts, you know, because their mix of vegetables and all the rest of it, I love that But for me, overall, a style of you know the ones that come out on top is Italian, that'd say. What about you, Erison? I think I'd probably like to get together a really good vegetarian restaurant For two days. mean I don't eat much meat. I've stopped eating beef and lamb. What made you decide to stop eating it I don't know, it's hard to say, Well, I think I read a lot about the environment and you're an a co warrior. I am She's out the stigma of three steakakes Pam is it isnt Weighing very heavy on these sts. Three stakakes Pam Oh what have we got So roast chicken, which' got lots of thyme and oil and garlic and then you've got doauph andoil potatoes which have been also cooked with thyme. So the idea is that you cook the chicken above the douphenoil so then you get all the juices now the juice. And then you've got some buttered peas as well I was going to do three steaks, but yeah, I found I'm glad you did for you as well. Glad you did ste Thankk you If you'd like some gravy, Alice? Oh I would or I'd love some. Yeah,ry And somebody put me worse than acr? We didn't know that budget should have gone up This is season two.. So if you were both going to cook a meal for each other, what would you what sort of saying? What would you cook for Larry Oh, Well, I think I'd be asking him first, what what What he would like. Well you know know Italia. Yeah, wouldould you go for something Italia? don know. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe a lasagna. or No not lasagna. Oh no I don't even like lasagna. I don't mind lasagna, but I love it my favourite What would you cook for, Alison, Larry Well, I love the way Italians do liver, but you wouldn't eat that, would you? No, Not even d. I wouldn't eat liver either. Fig Gabor. Yeah. I'm not sure you should cook for each other. No, that's what I'm getting the end of wonderful romance, I tell you. However, if you were to host a dinner party Who would you invite? What If we were to host one together? you were to host one together, who would you have? Oh gosh I know I'd have. I'd have mister and Misses Obama. That's'd. Oh would you Yeah to have dinner. Oh yeah. I'd love to have the Obamas. Can you imagine? Yeah. Can you imagine the chap? Well, I think my first choice would be David Atttenborough. right? Oh yes. He's such a hero of mine. So he needs good Dinner? too keep him going, keep him going, yeah. Who else? Wh else would you fancy having there? I'd like Napoleon. You're in luck. Wh to bring him in? I didn't know it was gonna be one of those sort of shows M it's one handed, but Do you remember any cast meals that we had out together on Govin and Stacy? Do you remember any? I mean we remember one where we did karaoke? Oh my God I thought it was on a meal. I just remember a lot of drinking and singing. I don't think I ate anything Do you remember that when Steve Ste Cooin was there? Yeah it was on the very first series. I remember him doing he does that Rock was it roock No, not Rocket Man. He's got a kind of an act he does in karaoke and it's always the same Yeah, I remember him doing something was yeah. good. did good A tiny Italian restaurant in Barry, wasn't it? Yes, I remember that. Yeah. We did Islands in the stream. I remember Ruth did Wild thing, didnid't she it y Yeah, a sort of like as Nessa. I don't remember what we are. Our islands in the stream was shock , I remember that I think we were rejected for that It was so bad, I remember being mortified because I couldn't pitch my voice between sort of like my head and my chest voice for Dolly Parton. And then do you remember Sam who was one of the crew? He recorded the entire thing. And I remember the next day when we went on set to film, he was playing it and playing it to everybody and I was absolutely mortified by it I talk about your life before you were acting in oil industry in Libya and Canada. Yeah. I got in the oil business in the year that Gaddafi went to Libya, he came in June and I arrived in the autumn By which time they basically closed all the joys of Libya down. And then the Canada thing was a bit later and I finished up in Canada in the ear early se se three seventy three I went to Canada I was living in America and got sent up to Canada to run a business for him. And when suddenly I was in Nova Scotia, which has to be one of the most extraordinary places I've ever set foot. Well that's where I became a professional actor. How did you become a professional actor then I'd gotten into amateur Theatre some years before when I was living in Germany and I was selling encyclopedias to American servicemen and all over Germany there's a million million Americans and every time there's a big headquarters area they would have a really good, well organized and well financed I'mate the there group. So that's where I got into it there. And it became my hobby and wherever I went in the world I'd all try and find a place where I could go and do some acting. Oh my Godd,? So somebody I knew said to me, you know they're doing auditions for the local rep company So I dared myself to do it, thenen I talked my way out of it, dared myself into it. So I took this guy that was one of the bosses of the power company, took him out for lunch and walked him back to his car And he parked his car in a parking meter right inside the theatre where all the auditians were going. and I thought, this is it, boy I ran down the road, phon box, phoned the theatre, started to talk. She said, Can you get here now? I said, Yep. She said, getet here now. someomebody's just dropped out. That was it. He parked his car outside the theatre. Well I'm sitting here today. Wow Yeah. Wow. That's incredible. Yeah. Itakesense. Have you ever had a roast for breakfast? This is the firstes the first. Yeah. But actually because I'm really hungry. Itice. Allison, you know when well whenever I see you on here we go which is just fantastic. But I always feel slightly jealless because I think, oh my God, she's ours Like suddenly now with another family, it's like when you find out that your husband actually is a secret family that lived down the end of the road. I couldn't agree. I don't I don't like it. I'm glad you said it. I only say it, I don't like it. I'm jealous. Yes, me too. When I saw Katherine Parkinson accepting her award and name checking you and talking about eating custard, I thought I honestly inside me, I was raading. I thought Parky hands off. Yeah, she's ours.'s. She's ours. honestly felt like. When you're with your new Yeah, don't like her. Don't like it. I feel very excessive. Yeah. When you're with your new br happ me. Have you had any nice memorable meals with them and nice times with your Your new family. The memorable meals. No. Great. Allison doesn't even like custard. I mean, the custard thing is funny with Catherine because I am a huge custard fan have been since I was a child. And you find a lot of adults will go, Custard. no don't like custard. I love it Catherine's the same. So you know we're on set when you have your lunch And we always find ourselves up a m you know You know, the canteen going, Ecuse me, could you have extra custard please? And we both get huge bowls and we sit there like this going, Yeah, that's delicious. That with most people going They're really weird those two.. I don't know where my nan used to do bananas and custards. Bananas bananas c. I had it recently because my mother in law's obsessed with it. I think it's something about her childhood. something about feeling comforted. bananas custardanas and custer. You'd love it? Oh no, you love it M, Sam lovein. We have bananas on us. Wait, they might be custards. you'll have to wait.a Custard. Allison, you recently did the ITV DNA journey. Is that right? Oh, you both did. D't you? you're like your history, family history. And you did it together. What was that like as an experience together you actually a bit shocked, didn't you? Yeah, did. Yeah what happened? Well, I found out On camera that my father was adopted. Oh my go. Yeah. They had flagged it up to me, but I didn't believe them. Yeah. I thought they'd got it wrong So I got a call from them to say, we think weve found that your father's adopted. And I said, no, that's wrong. That's not right. And so I dismissed it and they said, Oh well You know, we really think it. And I said, no, no, no. And I just let it go. And then on camera, we had an expert there and he said he confirmed it. and in fact handed me the documents. Oh goodness, that proved that my father and what it was, in nineteen twenty one there was a census And my grandfather, or I thought was my grandfather, had filled this form in andd put he had two children, my aunt Hilda and my uncle Ron, and he'd put Percival George, my dad adopted. Now that document couldn't be viewed for a hundred years. Oh my God. And so it wasn't u tntil twenty twenty one that the document was available. And I think that's why my grandfather probably felt confident to fill it in Yes with the truth, because he knew that, you know, it wasn't going to be seen by my father. because I don't think my father knew.. I think it was different times and hete l toldld, you know. And there was the shame wasn't there in someone having a baby out of wedlock and all that It used to be stamped on your birth certificate. Bang, illegitimate. Re. Yeah. I've got a whole long line of illegitimate people, you know, and here it is. Do you feel glad that your dad never knew Well well, I mean, I mean maybe he did. but do do you know, how do you feel about the fact that he probably didn't know? Yes, it feels a bit strange and But as just say I mean, a lot of people with their real families have horrible childhoods. Yeah. and they're not, you know, looked after and cared for and you know, they don't have any happiness. So I mean, there was my dad, He had the happiest life. He really did. And I loved my grandmother, I thought was my grandmother And my aunt Hilda, you know, and my uncle Ron, my dad's brother, lived till he was hundred when he was almost one hundred two. And I went to see him three weeks before he died. And I said to him, Do you remember that you had a brother Uncle Ron, and he said, Yes, I do, and we were glad to have him. Oh And he was dying then and he was just staring ahead. He didn't know who I was. You know, he was in that state. And I often thought, that's a funny phrase to say We were glad to have him. And of course, when I learned ye, my dad was sense. It made sense. Oh my God, that's lovely. No that's I mean ultimately it sounds like you did get the comfort from what was initially a shock Yeah, and actually it was good that this man was sitting next to me because he was a comfort. I'm going to cry now Well, we can hopefully make it a bit more comforting because we have got custard. Yeses better be have got custard So as far as segways go. 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I know I't I'm gonna go f Okay. We have to smell at first now just go to wh we are It's my sweat. That's vinegar. Oh no, this is frightening me now. this is frightening me. Alison, do you want me to go first or do you want to go next? That's really gonna sport that's gonna curuddle the custard Oh God.. I'll go next. So I've lost. You've lost. I don't win a teet toe That's fine. Oh God, he's got him to write one H Thats vina. Oh God. rightight, I'm gonna go with that Do you have to do the whole thing? It's horrible I don't like this game. Okay, Rand It completely r. This is completely ruined. Okay A thought' water. Are you trying to sneak the water from the other one Oh no Oh gosh. right. okay. Well, that was nice. He didn't like that. o, I'm going for this one. Oh goh. It looks like a sample, doesn't it? Yeah, first one of the day It'll be quite strong then. Could you go in the other room and do that, please? Okay Oh it was. It's water! Oh it's one or the other between us then, isn't it Oh my gosh. so one is definitely bad and one is good. is that? Right? Okay, one, two, three Oh my go the water. You won it. You won You w a teail that aon. Vy. Absolutely disgusting! Money. Thats I feel like I should have some cocktles and muscles in there with that. I think when we've finished this episode, we'll have to have a talk What have we got here, son? I. that's your favorite. Yeah, Bread pudding. You've got ye Yeah, I messaged George and he said your son and he said your favourite was bread pudding. Yeah, there you go. And I heard Kevin Parell Lason's speech and I too am a custard lover on this So I thought On it but have custard. O it on it right on it. I'm confused because I was assuming bread and batter pudding. Just because I'd never really heard just of bread pudding Pudd. So this is like alab slightly stle bread ripped up with like milk and some mixed peel. bake it T And then some crystallised sugar on the top. Where does your love of bread pudding come from, Larry? From my nan. Oh yeah. My nan, with no disrespect. My nan was the all time ultimate Olympic level Bread pudding maker. And there was always marmalade mixed into it. There was cinnamon mixed into it and then she baked it to the point where I mean it was I remember because I lived with her for years and then we moved away. but I used to go back round to Nanans And I had somebody bought me a satchel, like a hand satchel with two pockets at the front and she'd wrap up two halves of a bread pudding for me to take home And one of them would never ever get there. get on the train. Bread pudding That's read pue. Yeah. H you ever had bread pudding? Never. I didn't think you had. No. Lvely. It Christmasy. Dicious. It is very Christmassy, yeah.. Okay. Tell us them a bit about your poetry Well, I started writing poems back in nineteen eighty three and I was thirty six refflections, a lot of them on my life as I knew it. And then as a young man, a dad looking back and thinking, you know, a lot of it was really tough. and then the poems got put away. they were in the loft for about forty years. and then I suddenly found them looking for something else. and a friend of mine, Hussein Manoah is A poet, he read them and said, Youve got to do something with this. got you know, you need to be doing this. So I started to write poetry and some of it reflective, some of it but a lot of it was clearing out the cupboard of my life, you know because that's what needed doing. because a lot of it was still hanging there. And then he started he filmed me doing them and started to put them out online and people You realize, you know poetry has such a way with being able to touch people. And then I moved on and was I'd written a novel and while I was out selling the novel, you know, going around different The festivals, the people the people that interview you as a part of the show would always say, So what's going on now? You've done the novel? And so I'd say, well, I'm writing poetry. Oh, can we hear one? Okay, yeah. so off the back of doing the novel I've started a poetry career so I'm just heading off at the beginning of a tour. so I've got about ten or fifteen festivals and book events to go over the over the rest of the year So you've got a tour coming up Yeah and other poems being published The idea is that I'm eighty next year. so I'm going to do it on my eightieth birthday. I'm going to put a book out and probably an audio book. That's what I want to do. That's people saying, we want to hear you saying the poems. Yeah Yeah ye. Yeah, that's what's going on. Would you be prepared to recite one now? Yeah. Yeah. I do the first one.' called it's called a random coupling Somebody had to beat the blame for giving the party where dad and Mum met. Clearly Dad's neighbour, Georgie Clark, it was his fault they went and made love in the dark, in the park at the end of dad's road B the beginning of mine, yearsars later, red faced dear old mumm had confessed that indeed, yes, that was where my life had begun On a bench in that partark where my dad had played with his mates as a boy, but then only for fun This though was serious. Teenagers both as a war had started, they learned from the movies about love and marriage But this flash of passion was nothing but that No princess, no prince, no golden carriage A story not destined for a happy ending. On the upper floor of her parents' home, forced into marriage going nowhere like two caged beasts with a newborn son, notot planning a future, just desperate to run Both of them All they shared was hatred in me, a boomer. Certainly born with a bang. Oh my go.arry I thinking brilliant. Okayarry. That's brilliant. I mean that is absolutely wonderful. Thank you. That's fantastic. Thank you. You should sell out That was I't want to hear them all. That is absolutely brilliant. G God. that was That was brilliant. I've never heard that before. brilliant Larry. wonderful. was C I Larry? One of my poems. Yeah I'm not a poetry writer, but I wrote one during COVID Be twelve weeks, I've been locked in my flat. I'm fine, but I've got really fat. It's the comfort of food when I'm in a dark mood. So I'm blaming that woo an old bat There small custard have as much custard as you want. Yeah, what is next? What next for? if we were gonna like work together again on anything? Never know. Do you? in this game? Who knows? Yeah We were both out on tour last year flogging books, weren't we? Yeah we were. We kept bing into each other. I kept turning up and you and you had been there the day before.. Every book buyer had gone and I was doing my bit and sold about one book T talkal about coming on the wrong side. Oh my gosh. And James and Ruth are out there as well. Yes, yeah. So yeah Allison, what have you got coming up next? What are you doing? Wh we go? Yes You filming a new series Series four.. Yeah. So I've only seen three scripts so far Yeah we'd be filming June, July. Lovely. Lovely ye. Well, it's been fantastic. Halving the pair of you here. Thank you been love lovely. Thank you for being so honest and thank you for your poetry, Larry Just beautiful. It's been really lovely getting back together and sitting and eating and discussing food reminis. a treat. What a treat. How lucky are we? Can we come back? Yes Anyt time you want to. Thanks so much for joining us on today's Table for four. Don't forget to give us a like and subscribe to the YouTube channel. And follow the podcast on Apple, Spotifify or wherever you're listening. All the recipes from the series can be found on the Good Food app. I hate waste. Yes. We should save this for Let's save it for the crow. These people Yes. Right, Post me that now. right. I'll start yeah, the thingo at. That was absolutely gorgeous. Right, wasn't it? Well was so best. Well Larry's poem was amazing. It was so I found it compelling. Yeah. It was really brilliant. It was really moving, wasn't it? Did you see we allest friend straight back in as if we were actually doing scene together And then he finished we just like left it for the weight And then we just came out on and then. Working with each other for years. Yeah, it was lovely. and all that stuff that Alie was talking about her family was really moving, wasn't it? It was, wasn't it? It was so nice and Oh my God, can you believe it? That it's been nineteen years to the day When our first episode came out. I'm afraid I can.. Do you remember? Did you watch it? 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