Hannah Fry

Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware

Alice Williams

Arts, Kids & Family, Food, Music, 630144

4.7 • 12.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week we have science guru, maths mastermind - and owner of the best hair of all time - Professor Hannah Fry! Hannah is a TV host, university professor, AI consultant, social media superstar, and now she adds another string to her bow as the face of the new podcast series ‘The Rest is Science’. Over a delicious lunch we covered everything from Korean skincare routines, to cooking her ex-mother in law’s Indian recipes, her dreams of being a hairdresser, the science behind the best Yorkshire pudding, dabbling in stand up comedy, and we hear about the classic ‘Irish Mixed Grill’ - aka 5 different types of potatoes all on one plate! Watch this space, Hannah has absolutely nailed the science behind skincare and it’s only a matter of time until she’s the face of her own beauty series too. The new series ‘The Rest is Science’ is available to listen everywhere now.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Tablemanners. I'm Jessie Ware and I'm here in my kitchen with my mum. How are you?
0:08.6	Got a pain in my bottom. I've got a bit of a physical situation. A physical situation.
0:14.5	Got it. Well, thank you for being here. You're very lucky. I'm here, darling.
0:18.2	I thought we're going to say you're very welcome. But yeah, no, I am lucky. I'm lucky you here. I'm lucky that you do the podcast. I'm lucky that you keep coming back for more. I'm lucky that you're my mum. Yeah. Um, I cooked for lots of people yesterday. Yeah. And something that I want to speak to Hannah Frye, our guest today, who is the cleverest woman in the world. She seems to be. Do you want to give Hannah a bit of an introduction actually?
0:40.3	Well, I've admired her for a long time.
0:43.2	Where did you first see her or not?
0:44.5	Have I Got News for you?
0:45.3	I watched on Have I Got News for you, but I'd heard her voice on Curious Cases.
0:51.1	It's a radio program she presents with Darya O O'Brien and it's very interested. It's all
0:57.6	about science. But she makes science really accessible. She's also really a gorgeous woman.
1:04.1	It seems to be the cleverest woman I've ever come across. And she's very funny and have I got news for
1:09.3	you. She's brilliant online too.
1:11.6	Like she'll teach you on TikTok how to open a jar when you can't get that jar open by simply breathing out.
1:19.1	I also have listened to her new podcast, The Rest is Science that she presents with Michael Stevens, which is, I mean, I'm not a science head, but, you know, they're talking about
1:29.4	mosh pits in there.
1:30.6	She kind of applies maths to everyday life, like romantic attachments, all sorts of things.
1:37.6	I think people that do maths are so clever, don't you?
1:40.5	Well, I just, it's just not my thing.
1:42.6	No, I know.
1:43.4	And I've never been good at it. No, But she's made it kind of sexy. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure she's really sick of the kind of Carol Vorderman's comparisons. Yeah. But she is a remarkable woman that's doing so much. And we've been wanting her for a very long time. Desperate.
2:02.1	We've managed to get her.
2:02.6	Yeah.
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