Cat Deeley and Edith Bowman team up for Radio 2 podcast
Cat Deeley and Edith Bowman are to host a new BBC Radio 2 podcast, Friends Will Be Friends for BBC Sounds.
The pair have been friends for over twenty years and each week will go on a double date with a celebrity and their best friend to learn what makes a friendship click.
They will share friendship highs and lows, swapping funny stories, happy memories, exploring and celebrating the power of long lasting, unbreakable bonds in our lives.
In the first episode, writer, comedian and actor Daisy May Cooper admits she didn’t like her now best friend Selin Hizli when they first met at RADA. She also reveals that Am I Being Unreasonable, which she is currently starring in with Selin on BBC One, was inspired by a Mumsnet thread.
Speaking about the first time she met Selin, Daisy says: “It was our induction week at RADA and I remember sitting opposite you and I’d tried [to get in] for so many years – so I was about 21, 22 – and I remember sitting opposite you in the canteen, and you were so eager to tell me that you were only 18, and that it was your first time trying, and you came across as arrogant.”
Discussing their relationship now, Selin says: “I think we’ve definitely got closer since we’ve had kids. I think there’s such a pressure you feel when you have kids, when you feel like all eyes are on you and people are almost just waiting for you to mess it up.”
She thinks there’s a lot of expectation, but when you find someone you feel safe around, who won’t judge you, and “is going to give their child five packets of Wotsits in a row as well and not put it on a Mumsnet thread, that you just feel so safe”.
Cat Deeley and Edith Bowman say: “We are thrilled to be back with a new series of Friends Will Be Friends, talking to so many of our favourite people – and some of our heroes – about what makes their friendships tick.
“It’s been fascinating and moving to meet all the special people in their lives, to hear their beautiful stories and learn how we all rely on these unique relationships.”
Friends Will Be Friends with Cat and Edith is available on BBC Sounds from today, 27 September.