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Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware

Kae Tempest

Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware

Alice Williams

Arts, Kids & Family, Food, Music, 630144

4.712.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week we have the excellent Kae Tempest joining us for lunch! Kae came by to talk about his beautiful new novel Having Spent Life Seeking. Over lunch, we covered everything from growing up in Lewisham in a big blended family, to music, poetry and the writing process. We also chatted about cooking scallop spaghetti for his girlfriend and giving up sugar, cigarettes and alcohol for Lent. Kae, we loved having you over; a fantastic guest and an enriching, gorgeous afternoon. Kae’s book is available to pre-order now, out April 30th.


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0:00.0

Jesse's new album Superbloom is available to pre-order now.

0:07.9

There's a 10% discount if you go to her store, jessieware.com, and put in table manners.

0:15.2

James Norton's not included.

0:16.9

Teas and C's apply.

0:17.9

He lets me leave. He's best C's a plime.

0:30.6

Hello and welcome to Tablemanners.

0:32.4

I'm Jessie Ware and I'm here with Lenny.

0:33.9

We've just had a barney.

0:35.6

Yeah, you've just shouted at me.

0:38.5

Should we tell her why I just shouted it? You shouted at me first. I didn't make dessert and you said you were making dessert and I said

0:44.5

I didn't know I was making it and you said you were making it. But we never discussed what I was

0:50.1

making so I didn't feel it. manifested the dessert what happened was that we shouted

0:56.1

at each other I made you slightly more than me at the moment um I'm quite tired and um I felt it

1:04.5

well I felt it too Lenny okay good anyway it's not the best start to a dinner date that I'm very

1:10.2

excited about.

1:15.2

We have the marvellous Kai Tempice coming on.

1:16.1

Multi-terated.

1:17.7

I mean, like, what do you say?

1:26.1

Playwright, poet, lyricist, novelist, writer, I mean, everything, just incredibly gifted person.

1:28.4

He's coming on to talk about his new book,

1:29.7

Having Spent Life Seeking.

1:36.1

It's his second novel, 10 years on from his, I think, best-selling first novel.

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