Meera Syal (The Revenge Club / The Kumars At No. 42 / Goodness Gracious Me) • #383

Meera Syal (The Revenge Club / The Kumars At No. 42 / Goodness Gracious Me) • #383

Author: Brett Goldstein | Daylight Media January 7, 2026 Duration: 55:30
LOOK OUT! It’s only Films To Be Buried With! Join your host Brett Goldstein as he talks life, death, love and the universe with national treasure and acting royalty MEERA SYAL! Happy new year to one and all! This week Brett is joined by the phenomenal Meera, who has graced our screens for a while now and continues to put out excellence at every turn. It's a real gem of a chat and among all sort of cinematic goodness you'll hear about all things process including planning out novels, the circle of life, what life is like forming the power couple of she and Sanjeev Bhaskar, pre-nostalgia, being very scared through an honest mix-up, and the difficult lessons to be learned through problematic acting choices. A total breeze and a lovely, entertaining catch up with these two! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Video and extra audio available on Brett's Patreon!⁠ • ⁠Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster — join at https://RocketMoney.com/FILMS ⁠IMDB⁠ THE REVENGE CLUB TINSEL TOWN KERMODE ON FILM podcast –––––––––– ⁠BRETT • X⁠ ⁠BRETT • INSTAGRAM⁠ ⁠THE SECOND BEST NIGHT OF YOUR LIFE⁠ ⁠TED LASSO⁠ ⁠SHRINKING⁠ ⁠ALL OF YOU⁠ ⁠SOULMATES⁠ ⁠SUPERBOB (Brett's 2015 feature film) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There’s a strange and wonderful intersection where the movies we love collide with the lives we’ve lived. Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein explores that very crossroads, hosted by the comedian, actor, and writer-who also mentions swimming. Each week, Brett sits down with a fascinating guest for a conversation that feels like a long, meandering dinner party chat, one that inevitably turns to the big questions. They talk about life, mortality, memory, and joy, but they do it entirely through the lens of cinema. The central, playful premise is simple: if you were to be buried with a handful of films that tell the story of you, what would they be? The answers are never just a list of favorites. Instead, episodes reveal how specific films mark first loves, personal losses, coming-of-age moments, or pure, unadulterated escape. You’ll hear about the movie that made a guest who they are, the one they’d need for comfort, and even the one they’d use to explain humanity to an alien. It’s a surprisingly profound and consistently funny journey, proving that our personal filmographies are perhaps the closest thing we have to a map of our souls. This isn’t a dry critical analysis show; it’s a deeply human podcast about connection, told through the stories we watch on screen.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 50

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Duration: 1:01:52
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