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Tim Key, sticky sausage & apple braise, and a beer

07 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: Who is Tim Key and what recent projects has he been involved in?

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30.018 - 37.694 Nick Grimshaw

Dish from Wake Trails is a Cold Glass production. This podcast may contain some strong language and adult themes.

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39.858 - 42.123 Angela Hartnett

Hi, Twinkie.

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42.864 - 54.457 Nick Grimshaw

Welcome. Hi. Good to see you. Nice to see you. How are you? Of course. You okay? Very good, thank you. How are you? Can I hug you? Yes. I feel you're a hugger.

54.477 - 56.2 Tim Key

I'm a hugger.

56.22 - 58.683 Nick Grimshaw

Yeah, you sensed it. Yeah, exactly.

58.723 - 62.349 Angela Hartnett

Nice hug. Should we get you sat down and give you a drink?

62.509 - 67.977 Tim Key

I'll go and sit there. We're going to give you a beer because you like a beer. Usually, yeah. What is it, 3.20?

Chapter 2: What does Tim Key think about January blues?

170.837 - 183.764 Nick Grimshaw

And I think we've both seen it. And I thought it was very special, very heartfelt, very honest, really funny. And subversive and weird. And I really, really cried my eyes out to it as well.

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183.785 - 184.707 Unknown

I know, it was emotional.

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184.747 - 206.841 Nick Grimshaw

It was fantastic. Loved it. Yeah, so we're going to talk about that film, which was one of the best of last year. He released a book, poetry as well, called L.A. Baby. He's going to be on tour in February, doing this tour called Loganberry as well. And we actually, I had not seen this picture for 16 years. Oh, wow. But Tim Key joined me on the radio in February 2010. Wow.

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206.861 - 215.671 Nick Grimshaw

So 16 years ago, we did the radio together. I have a horrendous cold sore in this image.

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You do?

216.352 - 223.845 Nick Grimshaw

Really bad. This was my nighttime Radio 1 show since 10 till midnight. Oh, right. And people used to come and join us after gigs.

223.865 - 224.326 Unknown

Love that.

224.546 - 229.555 Nick Grimshaw

Very of its time. So I'm very excited to see Tim. I'm very excited to have a cold sore.

229.816 - 230.717 Unknown

Yeah, looking good.

Chapter 3: How does Tim Key describe his latest film, The Ballad of Wallis Island?

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People love Seville.

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It's a beautiful city. It is beautiful. We should go one time. We should. We love Seville, Matt. Maybe that should be our ambition. Actually do some of the shit we talk about.

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309.866 - 314.518 Nick Grimshaw

Do something we talk about, yeah. All the crap we're on about. So you don't have to go to Seville to get these. You can get these in Waitrose.

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Get these in Waitrose this time of the year.

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316.543 - 336.548 Nick Grimshaw

Okay. Well, should we welcome our guest, Tim Key? Can't wait. Let's kick off Dish for 2026. Right, shall we do the intro for Tim? Shall we? Yes, let's do it. How far into the show does the intro come? Quite a while into it, actually. Unbelievably, greatly, yes. Okay, time to welcome our first ever poet to this. Oh, I know.

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Yes, a comedian, an actor, a screenwriter, and a man who also came, and I love this, second place in a fancy dress contest dressed as a potato. Is it, of course, is the wonderful Tim Key, everybody! Woo! Thank you. I'm good. Thanks for having me.

353.848 - 356.951 Tim Key

Oh my God, thank you for coming. It was a very sad day.

357.252 - 358.513 Nick Grimshaw

The second place potato.

358.654 - 364.2 Tim Key

Where were you? What was happening? I think my dad, no offense to him, but I think he'd spent too much time on my brother's costume.

Chapter 4: What are Tim Key's thoughts on cooking and food preferences?

391.473 - 402.507 Tim Key

Well, I don't think I demanded a beer. No. I think there was like, you know, there was a conversation. Yes, of course. I'm very happy to have it. Yes. I like going to the pub and having a pint of beer. Yeah.

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402.527 - 404.109 Unknown

I think we all like that, actually.

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404.129 - 408.418 Tim Key

Well, there are some people who don't. I've met them. Mm-hmm. Never spoken to them again, mind.

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408.478 - 416.323 Nick Grimshaw

Oh, yeah. The pub is a real fantastic way to spend your weekend. The dream situation in a pub.

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416.388 - 425.819 Tim Key

I really do like going to the pub. It is a really great place. Yeah. It's like a, you know, it's a spiritual place. Yeah, it is. It's like a fun church. Yeah, a fun church.

425.879 - 427.381 Nick Grimshaw

You must admit, yeah.

427.401 - 428.722 Tim Key

Yeah, same, same. Sort of, yeah.

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No, but a great pub is part of the community and that's what I think.

432.807 - 433.688 Nick Grimshaw

You've got a great pub.

Chapter 5: What is Tim Key's experience with performing live comedy?

509.909 - 511.111 Tim Key

Oh, I'll pull a pint down there.

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511.712 - 521.606 Nick Grimshaw

I like that. We went on Monday and had the worst hangover of my entire life. Did you? How long were you in the French house?

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522.187 - 524.01 Tim Key

To get a hangover, that's a lot of glasses.

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524.23 - 539.57 Nick Grimshaw

We arrived at 2.15. 2.15, quarter past two. And we left about 10. Well, that's 7 hours 45. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, we felt pretty bad. That's quite a lot of half-pints there. And wines and everything else.

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539.65 - 542.594 Tim Key

How many half-pints? How regular are the half-pints coming in that?

542.614 - 557.091 Nick Grimshaw

Well, I couldn't have any. Gluten-free. Gluten, hello. So I thought the most beer-adjacent fun thing to have in December was champagne. That is quite beer-adjacent, isn't it? Don't you think? Oh, God, yes. My friend was like, that's not the next step. I said, I feel like they're friends.

557.111 - 558.192 Angela Hartnett

Yeah.

558.172 - 566.708 Nick Grimshaw

Or beer and champagne. It just felt less alky than getting on the white wine. Were you having bottles of champagne or were you having glasses of champagne? Bottles of champagne.

567.108 - 567.609 Unknown

Yeah.

Chapter 6: How does Tim Key feel about his collaboration with Steve Coogan?

612.993 - 629.522 Tim Key

Yes, I know the Coach and Horses. Right, so as you go in on your right, there's a chair which is not quite a sofa, but it's like wider than a chair. Well, I don't know. I sat there once, and it was about 7pm on Valentine's Day. And I'm sitting there, and then a character comes and sits next to me. Oh, okay.

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629.502 - 644.271 Tim Key

In the small... Well, it would be like you sitting... Because he's a character, he sort of comes with a hat and a cane. Did he try to make conversation?

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644.291 - 658.551 Nick Grimshaw

Well, I mean, I don't... Look, he was horrible to me. No! Not a mean character. We like the nice characters. Oh, no, nice characters are all right. Mean ones, we all hate them. Don't need them. Dottie's my favourite pub character.

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Dottie, in the French house.

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660.053 - 671.146 Nick Grimshaw

Yes, Dottie. I said, she must be in her 80s now, and I swear Neil said she's in her 90s. She is in her 90s. And she has a pint of gin and tonic. A pint of gin and tonic.

671.166 - 671.366 Tim Key

Yeah.

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Every day. Is she a nice character?

673.349 - 692.802 Tim Key

She's a lovely character. Dottie's fabulous. Yeah. I've just had too many bad moments with characters. It's the hat. It's the hat. I mean, I know I'm wearing, but they're not wearing this. No, not that. No, theirs are like purple. And it's a cape. I keep forgetting about the cape. Scarf, obviously. Obviously, yeah.

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And they're sort of annoyed that everyone else is allowed in Soho, aren't they? Of course they are.

Chapter 7: What is the recipe for sticky sausage & apple braise shared in the episode?

761.293 - 762.475 Nick Grimshaw

I think it might have been less than one.

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762.615 - 765.901 Tim Key

Yeah. Oh! Knowing me, that might have been just me joking.

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765.921 - 767.725 Nick Grimshaw

Oh, just joking. I can't remember having a lesson.

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767.745 - 786.663 Tim Key

You can't tell. Yes. No, you can't, actually. No, you can't tell. Oh, it was my column. Oh, your tone has changed now. I was writing any old thing for that. Oh, yeah. Well, you had to file 700 words every week, and I did that for two years. So at some point, you've got to sort of hit the old lasagna in the bath scenario. It's a classic.

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Do you ever eat in the bathroom?

788.727 - 811.372 Tim Key

Never. Never? I don't even like... I think I used to think... Yeah, maybe I had like a beer in the bath once or twice. You know, when you're sort of like in your teens. But now I don't really like the idea of like retreating to my bath with a beer now. I like a coffee in the bath. Right. I don't like a bath. Oh, I love a bath. Love a bath. But you like a hug. I like a hug.

813.195 - 814.617 Tim Key

You're a complicated fellow.

814.677 - 815.92 Nick Grimshaw

I really am.

816.22 - 818.183 Tim Key

I thought huggers were bathers.

Chapter 8: What are Tim Key's upcoming tour plans and how can fans attend?

919.678 - 924.867 Nick Grimshaw

Did you? And I think on about day three, we were like... Nah. Yeah. So go on, tell us that.

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925.247 - 948.718 Tim Key

So I had that, where you arrive and you're like, I felt, like, out of place. And... A moment of feeling like I was in the wrong place in my life, you know. And I was, I mean, I'm really happy I took the job. But that first week, you're like, why am I in this place? And yeah, all that stuff, I find that really hard. No pubs and no walking. They're like two of the things I do, really.

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948.838 - 957.749 Tim Key

They're my only hobbies. Yeah, they sort of are. And anyway, so I just started, and no friends, obviously. Not obviously.

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958.509 - 958.99 Angela Hartnett

No, no.

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959.628 - 983.502 Tim Key

And there was a heat wave as well. So I think you couldn't really go outside. And that's another classic of mine. So anyway, I can't stress enough, that's not what the book is about. But that sort of first week was like, and that usually plunges me into writing. And so not a pub pub, but find a little bar and take my little notepad and order a beer at the bar and then write a couple of poems.

984.062 - 1002.347 Tim Key

And then that was really, really useful to get me through that first week. there is something about being creative outside of that that's quite good for me to have an outlet to write. And then when it starts coming together, it was just like a really nice thing to have. Just going alongside my job was to, in the evenings, write this, or if I had a day off, go to a cafe and write poems.

1002.607 - 1005.892 Tim Key

So yeah, let's have a little bit of, I like a bit of poetry on this.

1005.912 - 1007.594 Nick Grimshaw

Yeah, finally, some bloody poetry.

1007.614 - 1020.574 Tim Key

A bit of torture, yeah, finally. Well, I mean, I guess this is one about food. This is on-set food. Okay. It's called Lunch. There was a decent spread for lunch.

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