The Filling with Anna Barnett

EPISODE SYNOPSIS Founder and head chef of Brat restaurant, Tomos Parry, talks to Anna Barnett about converting a former east end strip club into his Michelin starred restaurant, the influence of Basque cooking on his menu, and the transportive power of food and eating, in this episode of The Filling podcast. Mid lockdown, Anna and Tomos discuss the need for hospitality side projects in a strugglin...

Singer, song writer, activist, and Anna’s former landlord, Dan Gillespie-Sells, is the guest on this week’s The Filling with Anna Barnett. Catching-up in Dan’s Victorian pub home in east London, the old friends chat through Dan’s musical journey from attending the Brit School at 16, forming his band The Feeling, learning his craft performing 10 shows a week in the Alps, and diversifying into music...

‘Move, munch, meditate’ is nutritionist and writer Madeleine Shaw’s philosophy for positive lifestyle change. Madeleine is the guest on this week’s episode of The Filling with Anna Barnett. Madeleine and Anna also get to grips with establishing joy in your diet by ‘crowding in, not cutting out’, the importance of vegetable diversity for gut health, Madeleine’s strict Nokia only policy at the weeke...

Anna Barnett today joins Melissa Hemsley in her east London kitchen, resplendent with built-in wok and teppanyaki grill, to discuss the pleasures of dining alone (and not just to chat up the waiters), how the vibrancy of Filipino cuisine is having a moment, reusing leftovers, and the importance of a well-stocked freezer should you find yourself in A&E after a tumble down the stairs. The only t...

Anna Barnett visits the north London kitchen of chef and TV presenter Andi Oliver and her daughter, Miquita, in this episode of her podcast, The Filling. Together they explore Andi’s career through music (best friend is Neneh Cherry klaxon!) to food broadcasting, and a certain mother/daughter road trip through Cambodia where the driving definitely was not shared (you do have a license right, Miqui...

We’re in culinary heaven in this week’s episode of Anna Barnett’s podcast, The Filling, as our host is invited to the home of Sami Tamimi, renowned Palestinian chef. They’re joined by Sami’s writing partner Tara Wigley (her journey from publishing to trained cook via the birth of twins is worth a podcast in itself) to discuss being part of the Ottolenghi empire, why the term Middle Eastern cooking...

Get ready for an hilarious, equal parts couple’s therapy, equal parts life coaching session (with a bit of food talk thrown in), as Anna Barnett chats to UK fashion’s power couple, Henry Holland and David Hodgson, for the fourth instalment of her new podcast, The Filling. The conversation weaves us through how they met, their successful career paths, and how being northern keeps them grounded in a...

Chatting to Anna this week, for episode 3 of her new podcast The Filling, is nutritionist and best-selling author Amelia Freer. Anna and Amelia bond over a shared ‘cooking as meditation’ philosophy with Amelia explaining how positive nutrition should be about what you include in your diet, and not what you exclude. Beige foods are also discussed as well as the best hangover meals (tuna mayonnaise...

In the second episode of her new podcast series, The Filling, Anna Barnett visits award winning actor, Russell Tovey, in his warehouse flat to learn about lateral living, how Elton John signs off his text messages, his passion and commitment to art and design, as well as his pescatarianism. Russell also shares with Anna his motivation for acting, including some of his favourite roles, and his ambi...

In this opening episode of her brand new podcast, chef and food writer Anna Barnett, sits down with Radio 1 and TV presenter (not forgetting GQ’s Best Dressed Man 2014) Nick Grimshaw to discuss his childhood food memories growing up in Oldham, his after-dinner trumpet playing, how moving to London set him on a course for his dream job, and the contents of his well-stocked fridge. Tomatillo relish,...

Join me, Anna Barnett, as I hang out in the kitchens of some of my favourite people. I’ll be dropping in on the likes of Nick Grimshaw, Russell Tovey and Miquita Oliver, to discuss careers, home inspo and—of course—their relationship with food. Each weekly episode ends with our guest showing us their strongest sandwich game - and very possibly the contents of their fridge!