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Hosted by Cheese & Pickle · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 72 episodes
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Talking about the films, TV shows, books or music which people go to again and again to feel safe, happy and welcome. To join our Patreon, with access to exclusive companion podcast 'Home Comforts' visit www.patreon.com/comfortblanketpod "Brilliant... A lovely listen" - Sunday Times "Highly recommended" - The Week Selected as one of the Sunday Times' TOP 25 PODCASTS TO MAKE YOU HAPPY Presented and produced by Joel Morris. Part of the Cheese And Pickle family of podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cheese & Pickle hosts Comfort Blanket, a tv show with 72 episodes published.
THE THING! (1951) A preview of the limited run exclusive Comfort Blanket series on The Top Ten Sci Fi Movies (as chosen by 2000AD comic in 1980). A celebration of a fondly remembered series from my childhood, where the g
Writer, comedian and YouTube star Jay Foreman ( Map Men ) returns to talk about another vivid and unique cartoon world: Cosgrove Hall’s wild and crazy Dangermouse offshoot Count Duckula , and celebrates the subversive jo
Writer and comedian Madeleine Brettingham ( Harry Hill's TV Burp, Have I Got News For You ) talks about the cyclical comforts of wicker-basket obsessed hedgehogs-and-pumpkins glossy Country Living Magazine, and becomes t
Writer and comedian Athena Kugblenu ( Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Horrible Histories ) talks about the family-all-together-on-the-sofa comforts of 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, the comedy of class, the thorny i
Author Hattie Williams ( Bitter Sweet ) talks about Nick Park’s lovable Oscar-smashing plasticene cheesepunk technologists, the joy of vegetable puns, silent villains and doomed romances, and the comforts of slow,
Writer Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch ( Horrible Histories, Cursed Under London, Darkwood ) talks about Hayao Miyazaki’s 2004 beautiful animated adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones’ Howl’s Moving Castle, and how the Stu
Actor Geoffrey McGivern ( Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Ghosts, Back ) talks about the bittersweet Viennese comforts of Graham Greene and Carol Reed's blackly comic thriller 'The Third Man'. Support us making these p
Writer John Finnemore ( Cabin Pressure, Souvenir Programme ) talks about the comforts of Alexander Mackendrick's classic 1955 Ealing comedy 'The Ladykillers' , and explains how the film cleverly subverts the audience's e
Comedian John-Luke Roberts picks the 1990 LP by They Might Be Giants (the one that contains their hit single Birdhouse In Your Soul, and 18 other wildly inventive songs) and talks about the idea of ‘too much’, of overwhe
Writer and comedian Robin Ince ( The Infinite Monkey Cage, Cosmic Shambles Network ) talks about the comforts of Carol Reed’s masterpiece The Fallen Idol, the beautiful film he made between Odd Man Out and&nb
Writer Neil Forsyth ( The Gold, Guilt , Bob Servant ) talks about the comforts of Molly Dineen's 1989 fly-on-the-wall documentary 'Heart Of The Angel', a surprisingly deep study of the people working in a failing London
Writer Will Maclean (The Apparition Phase) talks about John Carpenter's classic 1982 sci-fi horror film The Thing, and why its tale of gruff short-tempered men failing to deal with an impossible situation in a pitiless w
Sunday Times bestselling author Beth Morrey ( Saving Missy, Lucky Day ) talks about Sue Townsend's definitive comic coming-of-age novel The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4. Support us making these podcasts by bec
Comedian and writer Sara Barron ( Firecrotch & Normcore, They Like To Watch ) celebrates the comforts of 30 Rock , Tina Fey's sitcom skewering of network TV, and the joy of seeing relatable character Liz Lemon surviving
Comedy producer Ed Morrish ( Non-Censored, Soundheap, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme ) brings his personal comfort blanket, Ben Stokes' 2019 Ashes innings at Headingley against Australia (and more broadly "all sport
Actor, comedian and broadcaster Tom Price ( Torchwood , Magic FM, My Mate Brought A Toaster ) talks about the lifelong comfort he draws from Allo Allo , Perry & Lloyd's broad and shameless French resistance farce. Listen
Writer Naomi Alderman ( The Power, The Future ) chooses as her comfort blanket, the 1949 Ealing black comedy 'Kind Hearts And Coronets', with its mixture of revenge (served cold, of course), and vicious social satire, ma
In the second part of our two part look at definitive 1990s sitcom Friends , Larry Rickard (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) talks about how comedy reflects its times, how audiences want (and don't want) things to change for
Writer and actor Larry Rickard ( Ghosts, Horrible Histories ) talks about his love for the smash hit 1990s sitcom Friends , and the craft of making warm, gag-filled, ensemble television comedy with your... er... friends.
Writer and broadcaster Danny Robins ( Uncanny, 2:22 A Ghost Story ) talks about the unexpected comforts of Nic Roeg's classic 1973 supernatural thriller Don't Look Now, a masterful study of how humans try and make sense
Jay Foreman
2 appearances on this show
Athena Kugblenu
1 appearance on this show
John-Luke Roberts
1 appearance on this show
Robin Ince
Comedian & Broadcaster
1 appearance on this show
Sara Barron
1 appearance on this show
Tom Price
Dr. · Michter's
1 appearance on this show
Danny Robins
1 appearance on this show
Bec Hill
1 appearance on this show
Margaret Cabourn-Smith
1 appearance on this show
Daisy Buchanan
award-winning author, journalist, podcaster and writing coach
1 appearance on this show
John Higgs
author of Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche
1 appearance on this show
Jenny Colgan
1 appearance on this show
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