Emma Freud
Emma Freud OBE is a broadcaster, film script editor, producer of Red Nose Day, co-creator of the Make Poverty History Campaign and co-producer of the Live 8 concerts.
Emma has been a co-host on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends since it started. For 6 years she hosted NT Live, Royal National Theatre productions broadcast to cinemas around the world.
Emma writes the column ‘Legal Highs’ for Luxx: The Times’ Luxury Magazine and won Glamour Magazine's ‘Columnist of the Year’ award for her series of articles in the Telegraph about her year living in New York.
Emma has worked with her partner Richard Curtis as either script editor or co-producer of iconic British movies including our Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Notting Hill, Love Actually, About Time, Mamma Mia 2,and Yesterday
For decades Emma has worked with Comic Relief to help alleviate poverty across the globe. And in 2011, she was awarded her OBE from the Queen for services to the charitable sector.
Radio
| Loose Ends Presenter | Loose Ends - Presenter | BBC Radio 4 | 1986 — 2024 |
| One to One Guest | One to One - Guest | BBC Radio 4 | 2021 |
| Pick of the Week Radio | Pick of the Week - Radio | BBC Radio 4 | 2021 |
| It's Not What You Know Guest | It's Not What You Know - Guest | BBC Radio 4 | 2012 |
| Blowing in the Wind: Dylan's Spiritual Journey Presenter | Blowing in the Wind: Dylan's Spiritual Journey - Presenter | BBC Radio 4 Extra | 2011 |
| Classic Toys Presenter | Classic Toys - Presenter | BBC Radio 4 | 1998 |
Television
| Portrait Artist of the Year Guest | Portrait Artist of the Year - Guest | Sky Arts | 2023 |
| The Great Sport Relief Bake Guest | The Great Sport Relief Bake - Guest | BBC One | 2014 |
| The Vicar of Dibley Script Editor | The Vicar of Dibley - Script Editor | BBC One | 1994 — 2007 |
| The Weakest Link Guest | The Weakest Link - Guest | BBC Two | 2001 |
| Sins of the Flesh Presenter | Sins of the Flesh - Presenter | BBC One | 2000 |
| Plunder Presenter | Plunder - Presenter | BBC Two | 1990 — 1991 |
| The Media Show Presenter | The Media Show - Presenter | Channel 4 | 1989 — 1991 |
| Pillow Talk Presenter | Pillow Talk - Presenter | 1987 |
Books
News
BBC Radio 4 launches Archers companion podcast with super-fan Emma Freud 29th September 2024 Fans of one of the BBC’s most loved programmes, The Archers, will now be able to hear even more from Ambridge, with the launch of a new weekly companion podcast, The Archers Podcast, going behind the scenes and inside the issues raised in the hugely popular radio drama |
Podcasts
 Clive Anderson and Emma Freud present Loose Ends from Latitude Festival in Suffolk.  | |
 This week Dolly's guest is the broadcaster, writer and script editor Emma Freud.   | |
 Mother, producer, broadcaster and Red Nose Day director, Emma Freud joins GI this week to talk about being a mum of four, being entertained by teenagers and juggling work and motherhood.  | |
 Writer, broadcaster and cultural commentator. Emma Freud was born into the world of literature with her father being the eminent politician and broadcaster Sir Clement Freud. Making her television debut presenting LWT's The Six O'Clock Show from 1986, Freud gained a reputation for her smooth journalistic style and in 1990 secured her own BBC2 afternoon chat show Plunder which celebrated her guest’s best TV moments in a frank interview setting. From January 1994, she inherited the famous lunchtime slot on BBC Radio 1 which later became Jo Whiley’s Lunchtime Social. Yet perhaps her biggest achievement is her contributions to the international charity Comic Relief with partner Richard Curtis in 1985 which has since become a British institution raising over one billion pounds for good causes both in the UK and around the world. I caught up with the creative powerhouse to talk family, charity and her recollections on a highly successful career in the Arts. Ladies and gentlemen Ms Emma Freud. | |
 Emma Freud with the inside track on the week in Ambridge. | |