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items: The Girl Who Waited
items: "I enjoy life through make believe": Jodie Whittaker on playing the Thirteenth Doctor
items: Britain's Best Home Cook: Mary Berry and Claudia Winkleman sit down for lunch with Emma Freud and Radio Times
items: Emma Freud: We can’t abandon those in need after the recent charity scandals
items: Nadiya Hussain: "I’m lucky – and I’m also unlucky – that I’m part of lots of different worlds"
items: Miranda Hart: "It’s not fame that brings you confidence that’s for sure"

The Girl Who Waited
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creator: Emma Freud
subject: App
subject: App features
subject: App Doctor Who 20
description: Jodie Whittaker may have struggled at school but, as Emma Freud discovers, she’s perfectly qualified to play the smartest alien in the galaxy
encoded: This article was published in RT in October 2018 and is part of our digital Doctor Who anniversary bookazine — click here to download it for free. Over a decade before becoming the first female Doctor Who, the then 25-year-old Jodie Whittaker gave an interview to her local newspaper. She said: “When we were training, it was a 50/50 male/female split, but we knew when we came out that 80 per cent of acting jobs are for men. A woman is never going to get to be Bond or Doctor Who. That will never happen.” Yet here we are, and I can’t think of a more perfect woman to take on this historic challenge. I first met Jodie in 2015 when I helped produce Dermot O’Leary’s 24-hour Danceathon for Comic Relief. We needed celebrities to come down and cheer him on, and although I’d never met Jodie, I’d become obsessed with her from watching Broadchurch. I sneakily found her email and asked her to swing by at any point during the 24 hours. Of the people I asked, 90 per cent came for half an hour during the day. Jodie doesn’t work like that… “First I went to the shops and bought a Red Nose Day T-shirt,” she recalls. “I had to get an XXL because I was eight months pregnant. I got there at ten in the evening because most people had gone and I thought he might need a friendly face. Poor guy, by midnight he really hit a wall. I was dancing till 2am but then everyone got worried I was going to go into labour so eventually I was sent home.” Born and raised in West Yorkshire, Jodie, now 36, has always been a dynamo. Her first stage job was at Shakespeare’s Globe (The Storm in 2005), her first movie was opposite Peter O’Toole (Venus in 2006) and her quietly devastating performance in Broadchurch as Beth Latimer made her virtually a national treasure. When she calls by to discuss her new role as the Doctor, my son is at home worrying about his GCSEs. As soon as she arrives, Jodie reassures him that her results prove he has nothing to worry about. “I got five. An A* in drama – thank you – an A i…

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"I enjoy life through make believe": Jodie Whittaker on playing the Thirteenth Doctor
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date: 2018-10-07T07:12:10.000Z
creator: Emma Freud
subject: News
subject: Sci-fi
subject: TV
description: The new sci-fi star may have struggled at school, but she's perfectly qualified to play the smartest alien in the galaxy, says Emma Freud
encoded: Over a decade before becoming the first female Doctor Who, the then 25-year-old Jodie Whittaker gave an interview to her local newspaper. She said: “When we were training, it was a 50/50 male/female split, but we knew when we came out that 80 per cent of acting jobs are for men. A woman is never going to get to be Bond or Doctor Who. That will never happen.” New Doctor Who monsters revealed for first time in fresh footage The scripts for Doctor Who series 11 were originally written for a male Doctor There’ll be no romance between Jodie Whittaker and her companions in the new Doctor Who series View oEmbed on the source website Yet here we are, and I can’t think of a more perfect woman to take on this historic challenge. I first met Jodie in 2015 when I helped produce Dermot O’Leary’s 24-hour Danceathon for Comic Relief. We needed celebrities to come down and cheer him on, and although I’d never met Jodie, I’d become obsessed with her from watching Broadchurch. I sneakily found her email and asked her to swing by at any point during the 24 hours. Of the people I asked, 90 per cent came for half an hour during the day. Jodie doesn’t work like that… “First I went to the shops and bought a Red Nose Day T-shirt,” she recalls. “I had to get an XXL because I was eight months pregnant. I got there at ten in the evening because most people had gone and I thought he might need a friendly face. Poor guy, by midnight he really hit a wall. I was dancing till 2am but then everyone got worried I was going to go into labour so eventually I was sent home.” Born and raised in West Yorkshire, Jodie, now 36, has always been a dynamo. Her first stage job was at Shakespeare’s Globe (The Storm in 2005), her first movie was opposite Peter O’Toole (Venus in 2006) and her quietly devastating performance in Broadchurch as Beth Latimer made her virtually a national treasure. When she calls by to discuss her new role as the Doctor, my son is at home worrying about his GCSEs. As soon as she arriv…

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Britain's Best Home Cook: Mary Berry and Claudia Winkleman sit down for lunch with Emma Freud and Radio Times
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date: 2018-05-03T07:00:52.000Z
creator: Emma Freud
subject: Entertainment
subject: News
subject: TV
subject: BBC Two
description: The hosts of BBC1's new cooking competition explain how their new series is not like other shows: "Our contestants don’t want to be professional chefs"
encoded: My phone rang: “Radio Times here. Would you like Mary Berry and Claudia Winkleman to come to your house to chat about their new series? Hello? Hello, Emma, are you still there?” I picked myself up off the floor and whispered, “You had me at Mary.” So it came to pass that the greatest cook in the UK has teamed up with the funniest girl in the country to present a new show. Claudia is the most in-demand TV presenter in Britain, the highest paid woman on the BBC and writes a magazine column in The Sunday Times. She has an honesty and fearlessness that means she is capable of turning her hand to any genre, medium or platform. View oEmbed on the source website What Mary has is rock-hard integrity, immensely high standards and the unconditional love of the country. After Bake Off moved to Channel 4, she could probably have taken any job in the UK, possibly including being the Queen – or at the very least she could have justifiably stayed at home baking cakes with I WON LIFE written on them. But after 83 years of activity, she wasn’t finished, and the search had begun for her next challenge. Meet the amateur chefs taking part in Britain’s Best Home Cook What time is Britain’s Best Home Cook with Mary Berry on TV? Stay up to date with the RadioTimes.com newsletter So what format could be interesting enough to tempt these two giants out of their nests? The answer is Britain’s Best Home Cook – an eight-week series involving ten contestants competing to impress three judges with their culinary skills. So far, so straightforward, but what Mary and Claudia saw in this programme was a blinding mission… MARY BERRY There’s no froth. None of this stacked food. No layer upon layer and a drizzle on the top. CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN It’s a proper celebration of home cooking. Nobody’s making a jus. Nobody’s making a timbale. EMMA FREUD No one smeared? MARY No one smeared. It’s real cooking, cooking from scratch using seasonal ingredients. CLAUDIA It’s about people making their favourite family…

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Emma Freud: We can’t abandon those in need after the recent charity scandals
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date: 2018-03-23T08:38:45.000Z
creator: Emma Freud
subject: News
subject: TV
description: The Comic Relief trustee outlines why charities need our help more than ever – and how Red Nose Day is safeguarding the vulnerable people they serve
encoded: After two years away, Sport Relief finally hits the tracks running on 23 March. It’s turned out to be one hell of a time to be launching a major campaign, as the charitable sector is still reeling from the recent revelations about the actions of some of its workers. I’ve been with Comic Relief for 27 years now, and feel incredibly lucky to have seen so many of the astonishing projects funded by Red Nose Day and Sport Relief. Sport Relief 2018: everything you need to know How to get involved in Sport Relief 2018 How to donate to Sport Relief 2018 View oEmbed on the source website In my work as an interviewer, I’ve glimpsed the inner workings of many industries in this country – and the aid sector has more integrity, purpose, dedication, and unsung heroes than any I’ve encountered. But in recent weeks we’ve heard shocking reports of some people in the aid sector exploiting the very communities they are meant to help – which is clearly unacceptable. The wrongs need to be righted, and stringent measures need to be put in place to make sure they never happen again. It’s crucial that charities rise to this challenge – and it’s something Comic Relief takes extremely seriously. In recent weeks we’ve written to all the organisations we work with to discuss how we can be completely certain we’re safeguarding the vulnerable people we serve. However – and this is a big however – we can’t let the recent news stories lead us to abandon those who need our help. It would be a tragedy if charity money goes down or the country becomes wary of charitable organisations. The sector does extraordinary, difficult, complex, life-changing work, and the people whose lives are the hardest shouldn’t end up being punished because of this scandal. Kevin is an ex-soldier with chronic PTSD from his active service. He attends a project that is funded by Sport Relief and about which he says, “If it wasn’t for this place I would be dead. It’s given me something to live for.” One of our projects in Pe…

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Nadiya Hussain: "I’m lucky – and I’m also unlucky – that I’m part of lots of different worlds"
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date: 2017-07-17T12:21:00.000Z
creator: Emma Freud
subject: Entertainment
subject: News
subject: TV
description: The Great British Bake Off winner tells broadcaster Emma Freud about her fears of being labelled the "token Muslim" and her new series Nadiya's British Food Adventure
encoded: Imagine being Nadiya Hussain. Imagine getting married at 19 to a man you first meet at your engagement party and then see for the second time on your wedding day. Imagine being a Yorkshire housewife with an anxiety disorder that gives you regular panic attacks and discovering your husband has entered you for the highest rated TV show in the UK to help you get over them. And now imagine winning that show in front of 15 million people – and, as a consequence, discovering that your baking abilities have been deemed an important step toward shifting stereotypes about the Muslim community and that you have become a symbol of cultural diversity in Britain today. Nadiya Hussain expected her “shelf life” following The Great British Bake Off to be a few months, possibly a year, before she returned home to a lifetime of being asked by strangers why her face looks vaguely familiar… but it hasn’t turned out that way. Since her victory in August 2015 she’s written two cookery books, made a documentary tracing her culinary roots in Bangladesh published a novel, baked the Queen’s 90th birthday cake, appeared on Desert Island Discs, begun writing a weekly column in The Times and is now practically a fully qualified National Treasure. Today, that Treasure is joining me for a picnic. She arrives at my house, early and instantly adorable. She meets my dog Posy, the cats, the tortoise and our new, controversial giant house rabbit, Big Sue. I’m not sure if she actually likes them (nobody likes Big Sue apart from me), but she pats most of them and sits down to chat. I offer her a piece of home-made cake. “It’s Ramadan, I’m fasting,” she explains. It was my youngest son’s idea and he just did really badly in his Religious Studies exam – I now see why. Her fourth book is about to be published, to accompany her new BBC1 show Nadiya’s British Food Adventure. In her privileged position as flavour of the year, she could probably have written a book on road-kill recipes and still broken existin…

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Miranda Hart: "It’s not fame that brings you confidence that’s for sure"
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date: 2014-12-03T13:02:16.000Z
creator: Emma Freud
subject: Comedy
subject: News
subject: TV
description: Her hugely popular sitcom is coming to an end – but Miranda Hart is happy to find her star waning, finds Emma Freud
encoded: Miranda Hart walks into my house and apologises for her wind. I assume she’s being funny, but it soon becomes pretty obvious she isn’t kidding. By way of distraction I offer her a small cuddle with my son’s guinea pig, Ron Burgundy. “Well, you’re handing him to the right woman,” she says. “When I first started doing comedy, I completed a small animal care correspondence course in case it didn’t pan out.” Guess what reader, it did pan out. It’s been an astonishing rise since we first met when she worked as a personal assistant at Comic Relief in 2003. Check these figures: she was the first woman to sell out all 14,000 seats of the O2 this year on her 40-date stand-up tour. She’s received five Bafta nominations, won three British Comedy Awards, sold over half a million copies of her first book Is It Just Me?, has 1.68 million followers on Twitter, regularly gets nearly 10 million viewers for her sitcom Miranda, and won Comic Relief’s Celebrity MasterChef in 2011 when she became the first person to make an “Eton Messy Trifle” in the Downing Street kitchen for David Cameron. Miranda is now one of the most successful comediennes in the UK. She puts the guinea pig to one side and we sit down to lunch – a huge cheese and bacon pie. Miranda and Emma with Sanjeev Bhaskar for Comic Relief 2011 Miranda Hart Excellent. May I carve? Half each? Emma Freud Did you always want to be a comedienne – even when you were working at Comic Relief? MH God, yes... The first time I saw Richard Curtis [Emma’s partner] at the office, I was outside the building kicking a football around with some other people. They all knew I wanted to be in comedy and said, “Go on... say hello”. So I kicked the ball right at him. And it hit him. I ran over and said, “Oh, I’m so sorry. Hi, I’m Miranda – I work as an assistant to Liz and I want to get into comedy. Are you all right?” EF Did he help? MH Yes he did. Do you think he knew I hit him on purpose? EF Yes, he did. Miranda splutters with embarrassment, sp…

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