Out To Lunch with Jay Rayner
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One of the world's top food critics lunches big names in a restaurant of his choosing. Crackling anecdotes and blistering chat, lubricated by killer cooking. A Somethin’ Else / Jay Rayner production.

Sam West

On kissing Julia Roberts, featuring as a pin up in the gay Doctor Who fanzine, and his life as a “shouty” activist. For this, the final episode in the...
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Gary Barlow

On geeking out with Prince, recording Sheridan Smith behind a mattress, and his relationship with Simon Cowell. Musician Gary Barlow goes Out to Lunch...
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Jimmy Carr

On singing backing vocals for Ed Sheeran, getting called out for tax-avoidance by David Cameron, and losing his virginity. Comedian, presenter and wri...
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Gregory Porter

On playing chess with Chadwick Boseman, singing posthumous duets with Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole, and the recent grief of losing his brother to...
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Patrick Kielty

On hearing Leonardo DiCaprio practice the Oscar speech that never happened, attending weekend house parties at Mo Mowlam’s royal residence, and being ...
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Simon Reeve

On hunting down two South African neo-Nazi terrorists, entering the most dangerous prison in the world with a bishop for protection, and being asked t...
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Jack Whitehall

On discovering "the best restaurant in Cardiff" with Eva Longoria, trying out The Rock's wrestling moves on Emily Blunt, and his friendship with the l...
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Dame Eileen Atkins

On stealing lifts home with Laurence Olivier, Colin Farrell's proposition of sex without strings, and turning down working with Martin Scorsese, award...
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Bernardine Evaristo

On a past relationship with a “mental dominatrix”, changing how she spoke to fit in, and burning pianos for firewood, Booker-winner Bernardine Evarist...
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Mary Beard

On the origin story that birthed a passion for classics, the catharsis of being the only female lecturer in her Cambridge University faculty during th...
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