Lara Prendergast and Olivia Potts interview notable guests about their life, through the food and drink that has come to define it.Lara Prendergast is the Food and Drink Editor of Spectator Life.Olivia Potts is Spectator Life's Vintage Chef.
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Surely needing no introduction to Spectator listeners, Michael Gove has been a staple of British politics for almost two decades. As a Christmas treat, he joins Lara Prendergast to talk about his memories of food including: the 'brain food' he grew up on in Aberdeen, his favourite Oxford pubs and the dining culture of 1980s Fleet Street. He also shares his memorable moments from his time in politics from dining with Elizabeth Hurley and Donald Trump's first state visit to his reflections on food policy as a former Education and also Environment Secretary.
Plus – what has he made of the Spectator's parties since joining as editor?
Produced by Patrick Gibbons.
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9 Dec 2025
With Tom Gilbey
Tom Gilbey, the internet’s most charismatic wine expert, sits down with Olivia Potts for Table Talk. Tom is a winemaker, merchant, educator – and also an author. His new book, Thirsty, is part-memoir, part guide to his life through wine in 100 bottles, and is available now.
On the podcast, Tom discusses his family’s love for winemaking that stretches back to the nineteenth century, and how he became captivated by the trade thanks to Beaujolais and a pike’s head. He explains how a glass of pinot gris in an ice bath propelled him to social media fame – where he’s known for taking a fun approach to wine tasting. Tom also reveals the best way to pair drinks with dishes and the unconventional way he’ll be cooking his turkey this Christmas. Plus: how did the English sparkling wine industry take off?
Produced by Patrick Gibbons and James Lewis.
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25 Nov 2025
With Tanya Gold
A woman that needs no introduction for regular Spectator readers, Tanya Gold has been the Spectator’s restaurant critic since 2011. On the podcast she tells Lara why – while it might be annoying – fellow critic Jay Rayner is never wrong, why the pandemic was ‘disgustingly great’ for food critics and how she has become ‘enslaved' to her aga. Plus, she discusses her favourite restaurants from Hampstead to Cornwall – though it sounds like she would trade them all in for the mini egg, which she calls 'the highest form of food’.
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