Emma Barnett

Emma Barnett is an award-winning broadcaster and journalist. She was named Interviewer of the Year for 2022 at the British Journalism awards and is a presenter on BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today Programme, as well as hosting TV interviews and ocumentaries across the BBC. She has presented programmes that include Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 and Newsnight. She also presents Ready To Talk - a BBC podcast she created to have meaningful one-to-one conversations about the moments that reshaped people's lives. Think bold questions, unexpected truths and lot of tea.


Emma pens a newspaper column for the i, and was previously a columnist for the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph, where she was also the Women’s Editor. After the birth of her first child, she wrote Period: It’s about Bloody Time, her first book. Emma grew up in Manchester, and now lives in London with her husband and their two children.