FREUD
Emma

• 1. Media career
• 1.1. Television
• 1.2. Radio
• 1.3. Film
• 1.4. Journalism

Emma Vallencey Freud is an English broadcaster and cultural commentator.

Media career

Television

From 1986, Freud co-presented LWT's The Six O'Clock Show. In 1987 she presented a chat show, Pillow Talk, in which she interviewed guests as part of LWT's late-night strand Night Network.

In 1990 and 1991, Freud presented two series of Plunder, a BBC2 chat show in which she interviewed guests including Spike Milligan, Harriet Harman and Joanna Lumley, and co-hosted the BAFTA Craft Awards with Kenneth Branagh. Freud also presented three seasons of the BBC2 Edinburgh Nights. On Channel 4 Freud hosted two series of The Pulse, three series of The Media Show and presented the Turner Prize in 1992.

For three seasons she fronted the arts show Theatreland. In 2014, she appeared on a celebrity edition of The Great British Bake Off for Comic Relief, and was declared a star baker.

Radio

In 1988, she was one of the launch presenters of BBC Greater London Radio 94.9fm, where she presented the weekday 10am–12pm programme, produced by Chris Evans.

In 1993, Freud was invited by BBC Radio 1's new controller Matthew Bannister to reinvent the lunchtime programme. From January 1994, she appeared on a permanent basis every weekday between 12pm–2pm, presenting a mix of music, interviews and interactive news features.

Since 1986, she has worked for BBC Radio 4 – as a regular co-host on the Saturday miscellany show Loose Ends, as well as hosting Midweek and One to One. In 2019, Freud interviewed author David Sedaris for BBC Radio 4 in a 3-hour feature looking back at his life's work.

Film

Since 1992, Freud has worked with her husband, Richard Curtis, as either script editor or co-producer on his various films and programmes. These include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually, The Boat That Rocked, The Girl in the Café, About Time, The Vicar of Dibley, and Yesterday.

Journalism

Freud has written for The Telegraph, The Guardian and Radio Times. She currently has a column in Luxx Magazine for The Times.

Since 2015 she has been a monthly columnist for BBC Good Food, writing about international food culture and interviewing chefs while she cooks one of their signature dishes. These include Yotam Ottolenghi, Rick Stein, Mary Berry, Stanley Tucci, Nigel Slater, Asma Khan, Michel Roux and Nigella Lawson.