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Hello and welcome to Table Talk. I'm Olivia Potts.

I'm Noropreneur. Today we are delighted to be joined by Greta Bellamanchina.

Greta is a poet, actress and filmmaker.

She made her acting debut in Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, age 13.

Her poetry is acclaimed and her latest collection, Tumoria's Women, is published today.

Greta, welcome to Table Talk.

Hello, thank you for having me.

Greta, we always start at the beginning and and you were raised in Camden, London.

What was food like when you were growing up?

Well, when I say Camden, it was basically Hampstead.

So it's a bit less cool.

But growing up, it was just a lot of, I was thinking about this, a lot of porridge oaks.

Porridge, flapjack, the whole, I think I just lived off oats.

In every guise.

Yeah, basically, I think, yeah, I'm one of five.

So it was kind of, that was probably the easiest way.

I'm the second eldest, so there's my brother

Louis and then me and then four, no, three younger sisters. So you're the eldest of the

girls? Eldest of the girls, so I'm basically the eldest. And that's, that's, that's,

that's quite a large family. What was it like being in a, in what was presumably quite a busy

household? It was chaotic.

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