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Emma Barnett is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. She presents The Emma Barnett Show on BBC Radio 5 Live Monday to Thursday 10am-1pm - in which she interviews the key figures shaping our times - from the Prime Minister through to the philanthropist Melinda Gates; breaks news; holds power to account; takes her listeners to places they normally can’t access; covers surprising stories and above all, has a good laugh and chinwag with her brilliantly honest audience.
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The programme won Gold at the Arias, the Radio Academy Awards 2018, for Best News Coverage of real-life stories and Emma was named Radio Broadcaster of the Year 2018 by the Broadcasting Press Guild and Broadcaster of the Year 2017 by the Political Studies Association.
Emma regularly hosts Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 and the late night version of the show too. She is the youngest person in the programme’s long history to occupy the presenter’s chair.
On TV she presents the weekend debate programme on BBC One, Sunday Morning Live, makes films for The One Show and has hosted The Andrew Marr Show, Newsnight, Politics Live, Sky News’s The Pledge and ITV’s After The News series.
She makes documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service - in which she has investigated a wide range of subjects including: the march of military women to the front line; the personal hypocrisy within religion; the rise of mindfulness and whether we have a right to be forgotten in the digital age.
Emma starting her broadcasting career on LBC radio - where she used to host the Sunday drive-time programme and for which was named the best new radio presenter at the Arqiva commercial radio awards 2012. She then landed her first BBC radio show on Sunday evenings for Radio 5 Live called The Hit List - which revealed the 40 most shared and talked about stories of the week - before transferring to her own named programme in the station’s daily schedule.
She also launched and co-hosted The Pledge, a fast-paced debate programme on Sky News and did the same on ITV with After the News, a daily late-night news show.
Columnist and writer
Emma writes a weekly column for The Sunday Times Magazine. Entitled Tough Love, she advises readers who come to her with their deepest problems - from difficult children to even worse partners. As the title suggests, she doesn’t mince her words. She also writes columns for the main section of The Sunday Times and a range of magazines - including the Radio Times and Harper’s Bazaar.
Before joining The Sunday Times, Emma worked for The Daily Telegraph for seven years - initially as the paper’s first Digital Media Editor covering technology and media, and then as its Women’s Editor - which saw her create, launch and edit the paper’s agenda-setting women’s section - described by the British Press Awards as the “go-to site for young women in Britain”.
She was twice named Digital Journalist of the Year by the Association of Online Publishers and the Online Media Awards.
Speaker, chair and host
Emma loves interviewing people before a live audience and chairing events. She has done both for a wide range of organisations including: the Hay Festival; the Radio Times Festival; Tech Crunch Moscow; the Monaco Media Forum; PR Week Global awards; Grazia live; Ad Week; the 30 Club; Southbank Centre’s Women of the World Festival and the Cheltenham Literature Festival. She has also enjoyed delivering keynote speeches at events, schools, universities and hosting industry award ceremonies.
Emma also regularly hosts evenings with high profile figures for the children’s rights charity Plan UK.
Author
In 2019 Emma will publish her first book, Period (working title). At a time when women around the world are raising their voices in the fight for equality, there is still a societal taboo around which remains a deafening silence: periods. Inspired by the major reaction she received after announcing she was menstruating while debating on Sky News and her own recent diagnosis with endometriosis, a debilitating menstrual condition, Emma aims to bust the period taboo wide open, once and for all, boldly and irreverently. She looks into the history of myths and misconceptions about menstruation; tells women’s untold stories and aims to instill a sense of period pride in both women and men.
Patron
Emma is a patron of Smartworks, a charity which helps economically disadvantaged women get back into the workplace through interview training and having the right outfit to make the best first impression. She has been a volunteer dresser for more than a decade - helping women discover the best outfit to land the job - and in 2017 was very proud to become one of the charity’s patrons.
She also supports Endometriosis UK, a charity dedicated to helping women suffering from endo navigate each day and raising money for much-needed research into this incurable disease.
Then and now
Emma grew up in Manchester and then moved to Nottingham for university where she studied History and Politics. Next, Cardiff beckoned as she undertook a postgraduate diploma in journalism at the city’s university. She cut her journalistic teeth at Haymarket’s Media Week reporting on TV and radio. Emma has lived in London ever since and now does so with her husband and son.
Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @emmabarnett.
Emma regularly hosts Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 and the late night version of the show too. She is the youngest person in the programme’s long history to occupy the presenter’s chair.
On TV she presents the weekend debate programme on BBC One, Sunday Morning Live, makes films for The One Show and has hosted The Andrew Marr Show, Newsnight, Politics Live, Sky News’s The Pledge and ITV’s After The News series.
She makes documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service - in which she has investigated a wide range of subjects including: the march of military women to the front line; the personal hypocrisy within religion; the rise of mindfulness and whether we have a right to be forgotten in the digital age.
Emma starting her broadcasting career on LBC radio - where she used to host the Sunday drive-time programme and for which was named the best new radio presenter at the Arqiva commercial radio awards 2012. She then landed her first BBC radio show on Sunday evenings for Radio 5 Live called The Hit List - which revealed the 40 most shared and talked about stories of the week - before transferring to her own named programme in the station’s daily schedule.
She also launched and co-hosted The Pledge, a fast-paced debate programme on Sky News and did the same on ITV with After the News, a daily late-night news show.
Columnist and writer
Emma writes a weekly column for The Sunday Times Magazine. Entitled Tough Love, she advises readers who come to her with their deepest problems - from difficult children to even worse partners. As the title suggests, she doesn’t mince her words. She also writes columns for the main section of The Sunday Times and a range of magazines - including the Radio Times and Harper’s Bazaar.
Before joining The Sunday Times, Emma worked for The Daily Telegraph for seven years - initially as the paper’s first Digital Media Editor covering technology and media, and then as its Women’s Editor - which saw her create, launch and edit the paper’s agenda-setting women’s section - described by the British Press Awards as the “go-to site for young women in Britain”.
She was twice named Digital Journalist of the Year by the Association of Online Publishers and the Online Media Awards.
Speaker, chair and host
Emma loves interviewing people before a live audience and chairing events. She has done both for a wide range of organisations including: the Hay Festival; the Radio Times Festival; Tech Crunch Moscow; the Monaco Media Forum; PR Week Global awards; Grazia live; Ad Week; the 30 Club; Southbank Centre’s Women of the World Festival and the Cheltenham Literature Festival. She has also enjoyed delivering keynote speeches at events, schools, universities and hosting industry award ceremonies.
Emma also regularly hosts evenings with high profile figures for the children’s rights charity Plan UK.
Author
In 2019 Emma will publish her first book, Period (working title). At a time when women around the world are raising their voices in the fight for equality, there is still a societal taboo around which remains a deafening silence: periods. Inspired by the major reaction she received after announcing she was menstruating while debating on Sky News and her own recent diagnosis with endometriosis, a debilitating menstrual condition, Emma aims to bust the period taboo wide open, once and for all, boldly and irreverently. She looks into the history of myths and misconceptions about menstruation; tells women’s untold stories and aims to instill a sense of period pride in both women and men.
Patron
Emma is a patron of Smartworks, a charity which helps economically disadvantaged women get back into the workplace through interview training and having the right outfit to make the best first impression. She has been a volunteer dresser for more than a decade - helping women discover the best outfit to land the job - and in 2017 was very proud to become one of the charity’s patrons.
She also supports Endometriosis UK, a charity dedicated to helping women suffering from endo navigate each day and raising money for much-needed research into this incurable disease.
Then and now
Emma grew up in Manchester and then moved to Nottingham for university where she studied History and Politics. Next, Cardiff beckoned as she undertook a postgraduate diploma in journalism at the city’s university. She cut her journalistic teeth at Haymarket’s Media Week reporting on TV and radio. Emma has lived in London ever since and now does so with her husband and son.
Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @emmabarnett.