Delia Smith on her catchphrase - "Let's be havin' you!"

0:00Hi, it's Lauren LeVern and this is Desert Island Disks postcards, a selection of some of our most memorable moments from the thousands of people we've cast away to our imaginary Desert Island. Our cast away today is one of our most popular and successful cookery writers, Delia Smith. Back in 2023, she told me how she first met her husband Michael Wynn Jones, who was deputy editor at the magazine where she just landed her first cookery column. I used to deliver my handwritten copy and Michael used to put it into English. So was it love at first sight for the pair of you? No, I don't think so, but I mean it was obviously he liked food a lot and I liked food a lot and that was something that drused together. Michael also introduced you to football I think, which has been another great passion in

1:02your life and the two of you have been shareholders since 1996 in Norwich City FC, investing heavily over the years. I know the club's about so much more than scores and a balance sheet for you. What do you get back from your involvement? What does it mean to you? Well, I think first and foremost, it's a beautiful game. So it is a beautiful game. It's irritating, it's disappointing. You have pain, you have ecstasy. It's all those things, but I think one of the things that's so good about it now in this day and age is its community and it's one of the few places where community really does thrive. You're a passionate fan, Dealer and the passion went viral in 2005 when you urged fans to get behind the team who were losing to Man City. I believe the phrase you used was, let's be having you. Tell me about that moment. Well, I was trying to get somebody to put it on the message board. Come on, you know, where are you?

2:04Because they were like church mice and we were losing. And somebody just gave me the microphone and said, say it. And I forgot, Laura and I just forgot that sky were there. Because you don't know they're there. You know what I mean? There's always cameras anyway. And that's what happened. And the moment went viral because people connected with your passion as a fan. Yeah. I had letters from football supporters from one end of the country to the other. It was wonderful. The first week wasn't the first week. There were people in the press saying I should be brought before a disciplinary committee at the F.A. Do people still come up and say it's the end of the stool? I go to way matches and they all call out. Let's be having you, Dealer. It's lovely. I love it. Dealias Smith on that catchphrase. You can listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds. Just search for Dealias Smith Desert Island Discs.