Episode 19: ANDI OLIVER

Episode 19: ANDI OLIVER - summary

Andi and Oliver share a glass at her London restaurant to talk about her incredible life and career so far.

01:54 - Andi and Olly met at Andi's restaurant
02:00 - Andi's restaurant was designed by Deborah Armstrong
02:34 - Mead is a drink based on fermented honey
02:43 - Andi (and Olly) bought their bottles from Borough Wines
04:00 - Andi brings a bottle of Gosnell's Mead. It costs around £4 per 330ml bottle.

05:04 - Andi's loves to drink vodka, port and dry sherry
04:59 - Fino and Manzanilla are types of dry sherry
05:26 - Rick Stein's Road To Mexico is a BBC2 television programme first broadcast in January 2018
06:08 - Olly visited the Hill Farmstead brewery in Vermont
06:55 - Andi appeared on cult BBC sitcom The Young Ones as the lead singer in Rip Rig + Panic
08:24 - Andi grew up in Bury St-Edmunds
08:40 - Andi met her lifelong friend Neneh Cherry while in the band
09:47 - Andi drove a 1970s Morris Minor across south-east Asia for a forthcoming television show called Road to Saigon
12:47 - Edgar Allen Poe went to school on the site of Andi's restaurant
13:48 - Andi's sausages are made by Forest Coalpit Farm
16:28 - Andi played Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds
17:15 - Andi interviewed writer Maya Angelou
20:27 - Andi loves the chefs Rick Stein and Nuno Mendes
21:36 - Andi chooses A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke

22:20 - Olly brings Andi a bottle of Quevedo White Port. It costs £14 per bottle

Recorded on 20 April 2018 at Andi's in Stoke Newington
Hosted by Olly Smith
Produced and edited by Richard Hemming MW
Mastered by David Thomas
Hardware list: 2 x AT-2020 condenser microphones with pop shields, Zoom H6 digital recorder, ATH-M20X headphones
Software list: Audacity 2.2.2, Garageband 10.2.0