Ralph Fiennes
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware
Alice Williams
4.7 • 12.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week we have Ralph Fiennes joining us for lunch! Ralph came over to talk about the new David Hare play he helped bring to life, Grace Pervades. We were swept up in stories of Victorian theatre, Italian food, Catholicism, and growing up as the eldest of six in a very artistic family. Over Mum’s Greek chicken and lemon potatoes, Ralph talked about post-show rituals, his obsession with simple fresh food, cooking Ottolenghi lamb in lockdown, and why a filthy martini with a blue cheese olive is “blasphemy”. Ralph, we just wish you could’ve stayed for a glass of wine! Grace Pervades is at the Theatre Royal Haymarket until July the 11th, don’t miss it!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Tabermanagh's. I'm Jessie Ware and I have a bit of a list because I've just been to the dentist so enjoy that. Oh dear. How are you, mum? Not well. The hip's not good, darling. Are you going to be bionic woman by next season? Possibly before then. You're going to go off at security? I don't know, darling, but there's something not right. |
| 0:23.6 | And he said I've got to try and walk with crutches. |
| 0:26.4 | 74, I'm not going to manage crutches, am I? |
| 0:29.1 | Anyway, Sarah's bringing them over tomorrow. |
| 0:31.2 | You do look fabulous with a walking store. |
| 0:32.9 | Do I? |
| 0:33.5 | Do I? |
| 0:34.2 | I don't know. |
| 0:35.1 | I look really hobbly and old womany. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm sorry. Good week this week for you, darling. Why, what happened to me? Well, I heard you sing again. Oh, that's very sweet. Yeah. Yeah, I sung in Kingston. It was so nice. I did an acoustic show, which is the last one that I'm going to do before I go and do the big arena shows. Do you do any acoustics on your arena shares? I don't know, maybe. Yeah, I think you should. It's nice. Yeah. But I also want to do a big, big show. Yeah. We'll give you everything. Darling, I was thinking champagne kisses come down in a champagne glass. Who's the person? Dieter-on-Tees? That's it. Yeah, no, I can see myself exactly like Dieter- Deter. Yeah, I can see you in a champagne glass. |
| 1:12.9 | Okay. We'll see what we can do with the old Bouget. Okay. I'll hold the string. |
| 1:18.3 | Not with your old shaky hip, thanks. No. Thank you though for you came on and people loved it. |
| 1:25.0 | Did they? Yeah, they love you. You're an icon. Am I? Now, we have Ray Fines on today. |
| 1:31.3 | You went to see the play this week. Grace pervades. Grace pervades. It's at the... I thought it was |
| 1:38.2 | going to be a person called Grace Pervades, but it's not. It's grace pervading the stage. |
| 1:44.3 | It's a new David Hare play. |
| 1:45.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:46.3 | I feel like Ray Fines has lots of connections with David Hare. |
| 1:49.4 | He's done other stuff with David Hair. |
| 1:50.9 | I don't know. |
| 1:51.5 | Anyway, Ray Fines, everyone knows him. |
| 1:55.3 | He's kind of, when I was collecting the chicken yesterday from Ginger Pig, Everyone said, who's on tomorrow then, Len? |
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