Emma Barnett

Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware

Alice Williams

Kids & Family, Arts, Music, Food

4.8 • 12.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

It’s our first episode of 2026 and we have the wonderful broadcaster and radio presenter Emma Barnett joining us for lunch after an early morning start for her at Radio 4. Emma has actually interviewed me before (and we got quite drunk together back in 2011), and it turns out that mum & Emma’s mum went to school in Manchester many moons ago! We covered everything from her breakfast routine, nostalgic Jewish food, being a colouring-in-book entrepreneur, her endometriosis diagnosis, the amazing guests she has interviewed over the years, and we reminisce about the time she got a Conservative MP to apologise live on air for lying! What a delight to share an afternoon with Emma, one day we’ll have to take a trip to Manchester to check out the bagels together. Emma’s fab new podcast ‘Ready To Talk’ is available on BBC Sounds and all other podcast platforms now.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Table Manners and we're wishing you a very, very happy New Year.
0:07.9	How was everyone's New Year? How was everyone's Christmases?
0:11.0	First podcast of the New Year, darling. And yeah, I hope 2026 is a really good one.
0:17.1	How are you? I'm okay, darling. I only saw you 12 hours ago.
0:20.2	Yeah. And I've been up cooking since. I only saw you 12 hours ago. Yeah.
0:22.5	And I've been up cooking since.
0:24.7	No rest for the podcasting Wicked.
0:28.4	Well, I can tell you who's probably more tired than us.
0:28.7	Yeah.
0:30.3	Our guest that's coming on today. Not since four.
0:32.1	Emma Barnett, who is one of the hosts of the Today program on Radio 4.
0:37.3	You might have heard it also when she had her own show on Five Live, Radio 5 Live,
0:42.5	where she'd have really long, brilliant conversations with the listeners.
0:46.5	Or then she moved on to Women's Out, and I think she was such an amazing presenter.
0:52.4	She was so good about all women's issues. She was powerful. She got
0:57.9	the best interviews. I just adored her. Then she moved on. Well, we can hear, I heard her this morning
1:04.5	talking about the issue with, um, Kent water. What a bloody cheek. I know. She said she would be worried to shower in it.
1:12.6	I know.
1:13.1	Five days without water.
1:15.3	But also she's been a real spokesperson for women's health issues because she has suffered
1:21.8	with endometriosis, rounds of IVF, failed IVF, and miscarriages.
1:28.2	She released a book called Period. It's About Bloody Time, which was about her struggles with endometriosis.
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