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

[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Films to Be Buried With.

It is I, Brett Goldstein, and I'm joined today by an actor, a writer, a singer-

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... a producer, a voice of an angel-er, an MBE-er, a CBE-er, a BAFTA Fellowship, Lord of the Rings-er, a-

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Uh, I don't even know what these letters mean.

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I assume it means she's a lady and a lord and the Queen of England.

She's also a national treasure.

Can you believe she's here? Please welcome to the show, it's the brilliant Meera Syal.

[clapping]

Yay.

So happy to be here.

Thank you so much.

Thanks for doing this, Meera.

Lovely to see you.

Well, thanks for having me on, 'cause I basically forced you, didn't I? [laughs]

You, you did, you did help me at gunpoint-

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... and say, "Put me on your podcast." [laughs]

I did.

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And I said, "Okay, okay.

All right."

I did.