Bonus Episode: Series 18 Launch Party

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2:43Hello and welcome to Table Manners. This is a special bonus episode to celebrate the launch of season 18. Well, for the last two years, we've decided to do parties to celebrate the new seasons. And we've decided to do a completely different one from last year because we switched things up. so we're making everyone come south of the river. Yeah, what a view. What a view. We're in Park Hyatt, Nine Elms, and the sun is setting, and London looks majestic. I feel like I'm Turner. I'm in a Turner painting. Didn't he do mostly Dorset? No, he paints a lot of the river. Oh yeah, he did, didn't he? So we're in the Park Hyatt.

3:27We were met by balloons and a leopard print cake. Those beautiful cakes. And lots of carrot cakes. Which are delicious. But they obviously didn't get the memo that we're not doing leopard print this year, but we do appreciate it. We are. We are. Oh, you keep on changing. You change your mind, Lenny. That's what I'm understanding about you. It's a little leopard. So we just had our hair and makeup done, ready for the party. Yeah, thank you, Chris, who's gone to get me a pair of spines. At Battersea Power Station. it's very convenient here I know it is and the reason we're in this area is because we are having our party at Brunswick House one of my favorite restaurants in London um Jackson Boxer's first restaurant his baby and actually where I did my first ever music video as Jessie Ware with a big bum um yeah it was for running and I fell down the stairs he he was like look you can come and do your music video on Sunday evening after service and um so we did it kind of I think from like six o 'clock to two in the morning or something and yeah I fell down the stairs so badly on my first video it was very humbling it's such a beautiful room we actually went to our friend's 40th there yeah and the food is so delicious yeah so we've got about what 60 people yeah 60 people coming.

4:45We're going to celebrate 18 seasons of Table Manners. I can't quite work that out. I know, but it sounds really impressive. Yeah, but it makes me sound older. Oh, it's got cocktails. Cocktails. Moth. That was your idea. Yep, moth. Cocktails. Do you know what? Moth gave me the most brilliant bum bag that we didn't realise was to hold their little cocktails in. Oh, I wish they'd give me one and I'd take it to the theatre with me. No one's going to look in your bum bag, are they? Maybe they do. Well, Sam took it to Glastonbury and somebody was like, oh yeah, you've got the moth-like ice pack bum bag.

5:21And I was like, what? That's what I need. It was so good. How did he find it? Well, they sent it to us, but we thought, oh right, they've given us a bum bag. That's so sweet. They gave me a fridge, but I can't put that round my waist. Anyway, we've got Palomas, Cosmos, Margaritas and Espresso Martinis on the menu. What are you going to drink, Jess? I think I'm going to do Palomas tonight. Okay. Even though I'm slightly jerked out. I'm going to stick with the Cosmos. Okay, stunning. So on the menu tonight at Brunswick House, we have for starters, roasted fennel, burrata, orange and chilli crisp.

5:57Delicious. And then for main course, what have we got, Mum? Roast herb-feb chicken, chicory, chestnut mushroom and sherry sauce. This is what we had at Jack's birthday and it was so good. and all the sides, glazed carrots, butter potatoes, Cornish leaves and the aioli is amazing. Is the Cornish leaf different from a London leaf? Yes, probably. Okay. And then dessert. Yeah, I think someone chose. What is it? Cru Varunga. What does that mean? I think Cru Varunga is probably sherry or something that they're going in the chocolate pot. Well, I do like a chocolate pot. Do you? The thing is, a chocolate pot is always a crowd pleaser.

6:37Everyone doesn't mind finishing a meal with a bit of chocolate. Except you only want one spoonful. Well, that's fine. Okay. Let's talk about the season, Mum. Darling, I've... We've done a few already. Well, we've got fabulous guests. That's all I can say. We've surpassed ourselves, I think, with our guests. We've done nothing, Mum. Tully's surpassed himself. Tully, producer Alice. We have quite a lot of actors coming up. Yeah. We have activists. A very famous, most fabulous activist. Musicians. Yep. Who are you desperate to get on this season, Mum? I would love Hannah Fry. She's one of my favourite broadcasters.

7:15She's clever, funny, gorgeous, engaging. She's been on Have I Got News For You. And she's kind of a maths genius. Lots of people, when we put out the teaser, were putting in their requests. Yeah, most of them we'd had on. I know. I was like, where have you been? I'd love Jeremy Allen White. Oh, wouldn't we all? Yeah. I'd love, well, Barbara still. Me too. Yeah. Who else? Lady Gaga. I would love to sit down with Stephanie. I feel like we need to bring a diva back into the equation. You know, we've had Cher, we've had Dolly. It's time for another diva on this season. Okay. Let's see what we can do.

7:57Okay. Wink, wink. But we're very excited to celebrate a new season. We've had a bit of a rest. Yeah. Have we had a rest? yeah it's kind of been restful your tan's still there my tan actually I think I've got that old lady's skin where it doesn't go away now anymore oh is that a thing yeah it is when you get older it stays longer a lady in aquifit came up and she said when you get older love it stays longer so thanks

8:26anyway we'll keep going once we get over to Brunswick House and maybe we can get into the kitchen like we did last year

8:40So we're here at Brunswick House. People are having drinks in the... What do they call that room? Smoke room. Oh, people are having drinks in the smoke room, but no one's smoking, thank God. And we're in the most beautiful room you've ever seen. It's got paintings. It's got the most fabulous fireplace at the front and at the back of the room. We've got long tables and there's pillars and there's objets d 'art that you can buy. Everything's got a price tag. So you could get, it's just gorgeous. It's shabby chic, isn't it? I think I'm changing my curtains now because those curtains are just fabulous.

9:22And I think it would be a great place for a Newsy party as well. Everyone's having drinks. So we're drinking moth cocktails, which are, well, I'm on my first Cosmo, but I'll be on my fifth by the end of the evening. Everyone's enjoying the cocktails. You can hear in the background the buzz of conversation. So I think we're in for a good night. Oh, they're lighting the candles. Everyone's going to come in and sit down at these tables. We're going to have the most delicious meal at Brunswick House. Thank you so much for all being here. for the launch of season 18 of Table Manners. Wow, you're going to be so excited by the wonderful guests we've got.

10:09We appreciate all the people that have come to South London tonight. It's very convenient for us, but it's also a beautiful room. I love Brunswick House so much. I actually did my first music video here, and so it holds a special place in my heart, but also it's great food. So we're so thrilled to have you all here eating delicious food. and you can buy everything, I think. What do you mean? There are price tags on everything. Are there? If you look, there'll be price tags on things. Even in this room? Even in this room. There's a fireplace that great is on. Yeah. Lots of things are up for sale if you fancy them.

10:46But we don't get any money. No, it sounds like we're making you pay for your food. No, we're not. Enjoy yourselves, please. Eat, drink, everything. We are going visual, which has been yeah that's exactly what Lenny said when we said we have to go wide screen no sorry I didn't mean it like that no I didn't mean it like that mum's main issue has been that she doesn't think it's been intimate so this wonderful David who's been filming we now have three cameras and it's Luca who's always done an amazing job it's always been portrayed and now we have to go wide and it's a faff but it's going to be worth it I think because everyone's been asking us to do it and so we're going to be visual means that we have to be really really careful with how we eat our food and not argue too much no but you know we we love doing the podcast we are a small team in comparison I think to some podcasts we're a family literally but we love how we make this quite chaotic and fun show and we're so happy that you'll be here along the well the season 18 and here's to 18 more seasons thank you all for coming and making the effort to come south london i think it's worth it yes and we can't wait to chat to all of you more and yeah enjoy your dinner

12:15guys we're so sorry to interrupt your dinner everyone's getting on we love it this is exactly what we like. Look, chatting away, having a fabulous time. But that's why we like this. This is what we like. Has everyone enjoyed their dinner? Fabulous. By the way, you have on the back of your chairs, if you haven't seen it, it's the table man is, why am I saying dishcloth like we're Americans? Tea towel. But when we give it to an American, they're like, thank you. I guess we just wanted to say it's been, what, seven years since we started yeah is it nearly eight years darling 17 did we start no we started in august so what is that eight oh shit yeah so eight years ago and all the way darling well yes and you know clara amfo coming on to do our first pilot because she's a friend and just being kind and and the idea being that like we asked her what her favorite food bits of food were and she said sweet potato what else did she say chorizo so it was like a master chef with like the invention and then we scrapped that idea for the rest of the podcast remember we made a fatal mistake my coriander coriander the devil's herb she called it yeah the devil's herb we put that on something yeah yeah we messed up but you know we've learned a lot yeah and whilst we are never perfect we have lots of fun.

13:38Bit of a faux pas. On this season. This season already. Yeah. Jessie was, I thought Jessie was cooking the main and the dessert. She thought, she said, I'll do the dessert, mum, which I thought was great. I'm not doing anything. And I got there and she said, where's the main? No one had cooked. So I looked in my larder and we made something. You didn't do anything actually but like um i was supportive no you weren't at all trying to you weren't supportive in the slightest but luckily he was a vegetarian if it had been at lenny's house god forbid she had to improvise on a vegetarian but it would have been tricky no we made it work so yeah we're still having firsts we're still learning we're you know doing the youtube experience and you know we're going to be learning from that so you know it's fun though it kind of makes it challenging and exciting yeah but lots to learn and lots of amazing guests uh to come and more fun thank you all right

14:44so dinner well we're we're just finishing mains everyone's chatting you can hear in the back it's a room brimming with conversation and delicious food thank you brunswick house we're waiting for the chocolate pudd Lenny's I don't know what she's getting she's just got like a free subscription to something or other and she's demanding a guest or two the food has been delicious and whilst Lenny was worried that it was only going to be burrata lo and behold the liver was on the table and it is sublime it's gone down a tree and also the burrata was amazing the chicken was delicious the gravy what had like a tang to it which was so I think it's got sherry in it or something anyway it's delicious and the aioli it's really simple and beautiful cooking and let's see if Lenny eats the chocolate pud that she said that wouldn't have been her choice even though I know she will have a taste of it um love this room it is so cozy and elegant and I don't know I feel like everyone feels like it's very um it's a lovely occasion for a Tuesday night in September and um we're yeah we're feeling really good everyone feels excited about our 18th season i can't believe we've been doing it for eight years i thought it was seven so yeah time flies eh we will see you for more episodes next week every wednesday you can watch on youtube or you can listen like you've always done on any of your podcast listening platforms and thanks so much for sticking with us we're really really excited about this season and we can't wait to hear from you lots of love

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