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Comfort Blanket

Cheese & Pickle

70 episodes

3 months ago

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.

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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.

Show more...

Performing Arts,

Episodes (20/70)

Comfort Blanket

Country Living Magazine - with Madeleine Brettingham

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 the first Comfort Blanket guest to bring on something that is actually mainly *about* blankets.

Support us making these podcasts by becoming a paid subscriber at:

https://joelmorris.substack.com/

or:

https://www.patreon.com/c/comfortblanketpod

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3 months ago

49 minutes 57 seconds

Comfort Blanket

Keeping Up Appearances - with Athena Kugblenu

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 issue of fitting in, and recognition humour as high art.

Support us making these podcasts by becoming a paid subscriber at:

https://joelmorris.substack.com/

or:

https://www.patreon.com/c/comfortblanketpod

or donate via ko-fi at:

https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit

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3 months ago

1 hour 10 minutes 5 seconds

Comfort Blanket

Wallace and Gromit - with Hattie Williams

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, careful, human craft.

Support us making these podcasts by becoming a paid subscriber at:

https://joelmorris.substack.com/

or:

https://www.patreon.com/c/comfortblanketpod

or donate via ko-fi at:

https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit

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4 months ago

1 hour 10 minutes 10 seconds

Comfort Blanket

Howl's Moving Castle - with Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch

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 Studio Ghibli masterpiece subverts fairytale tropes and flips hackneyed gender roles, while remembering to include sufficient wisecracking fireplaces and hot emo wizards.

Support us making these podcasts by becoming a paid subscriber at:

https://joelmorris.substack.com/

or:

https://www.patreon.com/c/comfortblanketpod

or donate via ko-fi at:

https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

5 months ago

1 hour 9 minutes 11 seconds

Comfort Blanket

The Third Man - with Geoffrey McGivern

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'.

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6 months ago

1 hour 11 minutes 49 seconds

Comfort Blanket

The Ladykillers - with John Finnemore

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 expectations, while satisfying them at the same time.

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8 months ago

1 hour 13 minutes 16 seconds

Comfort Blanket

They Might Be Giants' 'Flood' - with John-Luke Roberts

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 overwhelm, of an invigorating deluge of ideas, and how that connects the worlds of music and comedy.

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11 months ago

1 hour 8 minutes 24 seconds

Comfort Blanket

The Fallen Idol - with Robin Ince

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 The Third Man, and touches on the links between film and our memories of loved ones.

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1 year ago

1 hour 3 minutes 22 seconds

Comfort Blanket

Heart Of The Angel - with Neil Forsyth

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 Underground station.

The documentary is available on the BBC iPlayer here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074tkn/40-minutes-heart-of-the-angel

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1 year ago

1 hour 2 minutes 10 seconds

Comfort Blanket

The Thing - with Will Maclean

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 white landscape is a comforting place to return to again and again.

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1 year ago

1 hour 13 minutes 22 seconds

Comfort Blanket

The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole - with Beth Morrey

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.

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1 year ago

1 hour 3 minutes 20 seconds

Comfort Blanket

30 Rock - with Sara Barron

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 and thriving (even if she has lettuce in her hair).

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1 year ago

1 hour 2 minutes 54 seconds

Comfort Blanket

Ben Stokes' 2019 Ashes Innings - with Ed Morrish

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") to try and persuade Comfort Blanket umpire Joel that it's allowed - and makes a case for sport as the perfect improvised long-form narrative. It's all about the story...

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1 year ago

1 hour 5 minutes 41 seconds

Comfort Blanket

Allo Allo - with Tom Price

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 very carefully, we will say this only once: it's actually brilliant.

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1 year ago

1 hour 9 minutes 39 seconds

Comfort Blanket

Kind Hearts And Coronets - with Naomi Alderman

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, managing to possess, one might say, "all the exuberance of Chaucer, without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period..."

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1 year ago

1 hour 10 minutes 43 seconds

Comfort Blanket

Friends - with Larry Rickard (PART TWO)

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 their favourite comedy characters, and when it's time to say goodbye.

This is PART TWO of a two part episode. If you haven't heard PART ONE, please go back and start there...

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2 years ago

48 minutes 41 seconds

Comfort Blanket

Friends - with Larry Rickard (PART ONE)

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.

This is Part ONE of a two part episode.

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2 years ago

44 minutes 54 seconds

Comfort Blanket

Don't Look Now - with Danny Robins

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 of life, death and the unexplained.

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2 years ago

1 hour 12 minutes 15 seconds

Comfort Blanket

Withnail & I - with Jim Howick

Actor and writer Jim Howick (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) talks about his love for Bruce Robinson's 1987 film 'Withnail & I', the studied debauchery of the striving, starving artist, its ache of regret for the 60s, and the strange, romantic comforts of desperation, booze and enormous herb-laced joints (lamb and otherwise).

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2 years ago

1 hour 8 minutes 9 seconds

Comfort Blanket

Rush - with Rufus Wright

Actor Rufus Wright (Rogue One, Quantum of Solace, The Audience) talks about the comfort he gets from the often overlooked 1974 debut album by Canadian heavy prog rock trio Rush, and we share our thoughts on the appeal of heavy metal for teenage boys, the gawky magic of school bands, and the sweet horror of adolescent lyrics.

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2 years ago

1 hour 1 minute 37 seconds