Gilly Smith
speaker
1,281 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 30 Jul
Gilly Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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characters in your kitchen.
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Let me tell the listeners where your ladle comes from.
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A man who lived in a thin, tall house full of objects, a pair of boots that had once belonged to a spice girl, an enamel Thunderbird too, eight hundred empty egg boxes.
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I think you've got something there about the potteries because I was going to say, of course, Bee Wilson's The Heart Shaped Tin comes to mind.
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A perfect book.
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It is the perfect book, absolutely.
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It was my favourite book of last year.
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Because it does exactly what you do with the ladle.
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Um, it tells that story of of where you where it comes from and what it still looks like to you.
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But her
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My father was a designer f I think he was a designer for Wedgwood.
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He made the Wedgwood teapot, didn't he?
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And I think that it gives you a visceral connection with a a a a kitchen item which starts that journey, doesn't it?
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But you do that with everything.
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Yeah.
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Exactly.
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But it's a way of inviting us into your world.
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It's not just, you know, I use this and I use that to get this effect.
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It's you say it's like unhooking the front of the doll's house and swinging it open.
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It's a cross section of a world, and this is mine.
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