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Interviews served around the family table.
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware treats the meal as the way into the person. Guests arrive with projects to discuss, but the best moments come through childhood dinners, kitchen habits, family teasing, and the stories that surface between bites.
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Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware is a conversation show with its sleeves rolled up. The setting matters. Episodes open in kitchens, around food, beside bags of groceries, plates that need judging, travel gossip, family errands, and the small domestic dramas that make the room feel occupied before the guest arrives. That looseness is the point. Guests are not treated like press-tour objects, even when there is a series, album, or television project to mention. They are nudged toward the meals, houses, relatives, neighborhoods, and tastes that shaped them. Kae Tempest’s conversation finds its charge in music discovered through Lewisham Market, where hip-hop, R&B, dancehall, drum and bass, punk, and rock sat close together. Lisa Kudrow’s visit moves from The Comeback and reality television into Tarzana dinners, school competitiveness, siblings, and roast chicken with Parmesan, garlic salt, and paprika. Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo bring couple energy, food mishaps, pregnancy television, Iraqi family cooking, lamb, raisins, almonds, and a debate about ketchup where it may not belong. Hilary Duff’s episode turns childhood in Texas into steak, quail, hunting, LA auditions, and the way an accent can be softened by teasing. Kurt and Wyatt Russell bring father-and-son warmth, Hollywood caution, hockey memories, privacy, and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Even the holiday episode keeps the show close to wrapping paper, mince pies, children, tiredness, music, and the pressure of Christmas Eve. The interviews are affectionate without becoming bland. They can be silly, admiring, distracted, and unexpectedly direct. Food is not decoration here; it is the trapdoor into memory. The result is an interview show for listeners who prefer personality revealed through ordinary details rather than grand statements.
Made for: For listeners who like warm interviews with food, family history, music, television, and domestic detail mixed together. It especially suits anyone who prefers lively interruption and specific anecdotes over formal career retrospectives.
What sets it apart: The show turns meals into memory prompts, so promotion gives way to childhood dinners, family roles, kitchen habits, and odd little tastes. Its mother-daughter rhythm keeps the tone affectionate, quick, and pleasingly untidy.
Jessie Ware hosts a podcast about food, family and everything in between, direct from her very own dinner table. With a little bit of help from her chef extraordinaire mum Lennie, each week guests from the worlds of music, culture and politics drop by for a bite and a bit of a natter. Oversharing guaranteed. Produced by Alice Williams Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jessie and Lennie Ware use food and family memory to draw unusually personal music stories from artists at their table.
Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware turns lunch into a relaxed interview setting, with cooking mishaps and the pair's quick mother-daughter exchanges loosening up their guests.
A lamb chop takes Lennie's veneer, and you've barely pulled up a chair.
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A record-shop education leads into a thoughtful conversation about lyrics, place and how unfamiliar music starts to make sense.
The episode traces the guest's path into music back to a record-shop job behind Lewisham Market, where dancehall, R&B and hip hop were close enough to absorb before they had a full language for them.
Lisa Kudrow's memories of childhood dinners bring warmth and detail to an episode that reaches beyond her familiar characters.
Lisa Kudrow's visit begins with Jessie declaring her affection for Valerie Cherish and excitement about The Comeback, then settles into Kudrow's childhood in Tarzana. She recalls her determination to win at school and dinners with her mother, brother and sister.
A warm kitchen-table chat where Iraqi rice, smoked salmon with ketchup and a new baby all make it into the mix.
Food opens the door to family history in this relaxed Table Manners episode with Sophie and Jamie. One guest remembers a grandfather's Iraqi rice dish with minced lamb, raisins and flaked almonds; another circles back to a father's salty tuna pasta bake with anchovies.
A warm father-and-son conversation about acting, family, and making a life near a public profession.
A father-and-son conversation gives Table Manners a nimble way into acting, family, and the strange gravity of a familiar profession. Kurt and Wyatt Russell talk about sharing the role of Lee Shaw at different points in his life in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, with Wyatt tracing…
Hilary Duff's Texas food memories give her return to live performance a warm, sideways shape.
Hilary Duff comes through as a guest with a Texas-to-Los Angeles story that keeps finding its way back to food. Memories of her father cooking steaks, hunting deer, and bringing quail to the table give the conversation a lived-in center, especially as she looks back on moving…
A relaxed Wyatt Russell conversation about Lee Shore, creative work, privacy, and family life.
Wyatt Russell's Table Manners episode finds its sharpest entry point through Apple TV's Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, with Lee Shore split across different points in life and Russell handling the post-war 50s version of the character.
Reese Witherspoon recalls New Orleans, Memphis, military family life and Sunday suppers at her grandmother's table.
Reese Witherspoon looks back on the places and family ties that shaped her story, beginning with her New Orleans birthplace and moving through Memphis and Arkansas. Her memories of Sunday suppers at her grandmother's table are the warmest part of the episode.
Wilkes County life, sung sideways.
Apple details, software habits, and everyday technical friction.
Records worth hearing, reasons worth arguing over.
Jessie and Lennie Ware welcome Reese Witherspoon to Table Manners for season 18.
Jessie and Lennie Ware host actors Kurt and Wyatt Russell for a dinner conversation on Table Manners.
Jesse and Lenny wrap up a second helping episode featuring a warm interview with Pink, where they discuss a pink-themed meal including salmon and raspberry champagne possets.
This episode features an interview with Emma Barnett, discussing various topics and insights.
A podcast episode featuring a revisit of an interview with Jake Shears, discussing Sister Sisters' reunion tour and Glastonbury performance.
["Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware opens with a dessert argument, then turns to Kai Tempest\u2019s novel Having Spent Life Seeking and an Ivor nomination.", "Tempest says they stopped chocolate and cigarettes after Pancake Day, using Lent to ask for strength, focus, and grounding.", "The conversation moves through touring, alcohol, sugar, ADHD, school refusal, the Brit School, and a Lewisham record shop that shaped an ear for dancehall, R&B, hip hop, and East Coast rap.", "Tempest also talks about Jewish family rituals, religion as 'useful myths,' and the writing line 'write what you can't bear to admit' as a core creative rule."]
Table Manners with Jessie Ware and Lennie Ware talks to Lisa Kudrow about The Comeback season three, which Jessie says began in 2005, returned in 2015, and arrives again in 2026 on HBO Max.
["Sophie Habboo and Jamie Laing describe the emergency C-section behind Raising Chelsea, including Sophie\u2019s line that the baby\u2019s hand was \"coming out the cervix.\"", "Jessie Ware and Lennie Ware frame the Disney Plus series around pregnancy, early parenthood, and the couple\u2019s first podcast back after the birth.", "They also dig into Made in Chelsea, the Croatia and South Africa filming trips, and the flight where Jamie and Sophie finally kissed after breaking up with other partners.", "Lennie\u2019s kitchen keeps the food central with challah and chive bread and butter pudding, roasted tomatoes, and banana, pecan, and chocolate biscuits."]
Jesse and Lenny discuss Lenny's talk at a university about podcasting and the potential threat of AI cloning voices.
Jessie Ware and her mother discuss Jane McDonald's rise to fame from a BBC cruise ship documentary and her enduring appeal.
Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell talk on Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware about family food, film work, and the Apple TV+ series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
Hilary Duff explains why she wanted only Matt to write the record and why the lyrics felt so personal.
Jessie and Lennie host a special Christmas Eve episode of Table Manners, chatting about holiday preparations and family traditions.
This episode is a promotional segment for Jesse's album and Brisbane airport parking, with no substantive content about Reese Witherspoon.