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Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware

James Graham

5/13/20261 hr 5 min

This week we have the fantastic James Graham joining us for lunch! James came by to talk about his award winning play, Dear England coming to the BBC. Over lunch, we covered everything from growing up in a Nottinghamshire mining village and telly dinners, to the huge Sunday roasts his family loved. We also chatted about Gareth Southgate, turning football into theatre, his love of musicals, the Polish soup disaster that put him off hosting, and his very romantic passion for whisky. James was such a thoughtful guest, we are such fans of his work and we absolutely loved having him at the table. Dear England is coming to BBC iPlayer and BBC One later this month!

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Clips

Owning A Painful Flop
Diagnosed Workaholic Confession
Reframing ‘Woolly’ As Strength
Ink Becomes A Movie
The Sting Of Public Embarrassment
Forgiveness After A One-Punch Killing
Rewriting Harry Kane On Screen
Hearts Sync In A Theatre
Whiskey Learns Itself With Water

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Jessie Ware· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Table Manners. I'm Jessie Ware. It's a beautiful day in South London.

  2. Lennie Ware· Host0:08

    It's stunning.

  3. Jessie Ware· Host0:08

    You look fabulous. I like the red.

  4. Lennie Ware· Host0:10

    Do you match my lips? Or my lips match the jumper?

  5. Jessie Ware· Host0:14

    It's good. It's working, honey.

  6. Lennie Ware· Host0:16

    Yeah, it's good.

  7. Jessie Ware· Host0:16

    And we are so excited about the guest today.

  8. Lennie Ware· Host0:18

    I can't wait. I've, I think I've seen probably at least more than half of his plays that he's written or, or been involved with.

  9. Jessie Ware· Host0:26

    So we have the phenomenal James Graham, who is a playwright, a screenwriter. He's a national treasure. He's got an OBE- I know ... for his services to drama.

  10. Lennie Ware· Host0:37

    Yeah.

  11. Jessie Ware· Host0:38

    He is one of our most cherished and celebrated playwrights in Britain, and just kind of around the world too. He's incredible.

  12. Lennie Ware· Host0:45

    Well, he addresses current issues. That's what I love about him. And old institutions.

  13. Jessie Ware· Host0:51

    If you don't know who James Graham is, you may have heard of the hugely successful play that was at The National and then transferred to the West End called Dear England, which was all about Gareth Southgate's kind of- Vision ... reign and vision- Yeah ... with the England squad, and how he really turned things around for, um, us. He's also made musicals, Tammy Faye, which was hugely popular at the Almeida.

  14. Lennie Ware· Host1:15

    House. He, um- I didn't see House. I did. He tackled Parliament, um, people voting, voting in the House. Sherwood.

  15. Jessie Ware· Host1:23

    Sherwood.

  16. Lennie Ware· Host1:23

    Fantastic.

  17. Jessie Ware· Host1:23

    The Nottingham drama- Yeah ... which is so good.

  18. Lennie Ware· Host1:26

    Yeah.

  19. Jessie Ware· Host1:26

    Punch, which I think won best- Punch won Best

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