Ruthie's Table 4

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Ruthie's Table 4 episodes

November 03 Nile Rodgers on Madonna, Spices, and Growing Up Amid Love and Addiction
Welcome to Season Six!

How did growing up in a household affected by heroin, surrounded by jazz greats, shape Nile Rodgers? How did his Barbadian grandmother’s lessons about spices influence him? And what was it really like working with Madonna, David Bowie and Michael Jackson?

In the first episode of Season Six, I sat down with Nile to explore his remarkable life, from his childhood in New York and joining the Black Panther Party at 16 to forming Chic and creating some of pop music’s biggest records. He shared stories of Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie visiting his family home, making Like a Virgin with Madonna and going out to restaurants together, as well as his first meeting with David Bowie.

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Credits

Presented by Ruthie Rogers: instagram.com/ruthierogers

Production Manager: Bella Salini

YouTube Editor: Andrew Tsang

Producers: Robbie Hamilton

Editors: Julia Johnson

Executive Producers: Ruthie Rogers, Zad Rogers

Recorded at: River Café: https://www.rivercafe.co.uk/

Ruthie’s Table 4 is an Atomized Studios production: https://www.atomizedstudios.tv/
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50 min
October 27 Season Six!
We’re back!

The sixth season of Ruthie’s Table 4 begins Tuesday, 3 November.

Steve Martin and Martin Short tell us why grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup make the perfect Christmas dinner. Nile Rodgers remembers cooking with his grandmother in Barbados. Bertha González Nieves takes us to the agave fields where she fell in love with tequila, while Thandiwe Newton talks about reclaiming her name and her Zimbabwean heritage.

These are just some of the stories and intimate conversations I’ve been having around the table, and I’d love you to join us.

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2 min
October 19 From the Archive: Richard E. Grant on eating the same seven meals growing up, Henry Higgins and coping with loss
With Richard E. Grant delighting audiences on The Traitors, we’re looking back at this special episode of Ruthie’s Table 4. I remember Richard and his wife Joan in the early days of The River Cafe, coming in for lunch and sitting at the same table, always warm, lovely and absorbed in each other. More than thirty years later, Richard and I share the loss of the partners we loved. We came together to talk about family, food, friendship and, above all, the enduring joy of love.

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43 min
October 12 From the Archive: Gary Lineker on Goals, Gnocchi, and Refusing to Stay Silent
This week, we’re looking back at Gary Lineker’s visit to The River Cafe.

Over the table, we travelled from his childhood in Leicester and the food of his mother’s kitchen to the football pitches of Barcelona. We talked about fame, family, and the importance of speaking out for refugees and compassion. Gary made potato gnocchi with tomato sauce alongside our chef Joseph Trivelli, and revealed his love of cottage pie.

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33 min
October 05 From the Archive: Cate Blanchett on growing her own food, multiculturalism, and a disastrous Christmas dinner
This week, we’re looking back to the summer morning we shared with Cate Blanchett, who joined me at The River Cafe after her run in Thomas Ostermeier’s The Seagull.

We talked about the pleasures of touring a play, growing up between American and Australian food traditions, silent meals after losing her father, teenage dinner parties inspired by a Salvador Dalí cookbook, the joys of growing food, and her love of sake.

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34 min
September 28 From the Archives: Sarah Jessica Parker on the importance of food in Sex and the City, cooking with her husband, and pork chops.
This week, we’re revisiting our live episode with Sarah Jessica Parker. And what a guest she was.

Sarah has always had a deep love of food, so we had plenty to talk about: from the role of food in Sex and the City, where so many memorable conversations unfolded around a meal, to growing up as one of eight children and cooking every night with Matthew Broderick.

She cooked puntarelle in the kitchen with Sian Wyn Owen, took questions from our audience, shared her thoughts on airplane food, revealed her perfect pork chops, and her devotion to Burford eggs.

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44 min
September 21 From the Archive: Benedict Cumberbatch on Living with Wes Anderson, Imitating Ruthie & ‘Daddy Pancakes’
During our between-season break, we’re revisiting some of our favourite conversations from the Ruthie’s Table 4 archive.

This week, we're looking back to when Benedict Cumberbatch joined me at The River Cafe to talk about Negronis with Wes Anderson, growing up in a theatrical family, body transformations, and cooking for his children.

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Contact us: ⁠[email protected]

Credits

Presented by Ruthie Rogers: instagram.com/ruthierogers

Production Manager: Bella Salini

YouTube Editor: Andrew Tsang

Producers: Alex Bell & Robbie Hamilton

Editors: Alex Bell and Julia Johnson

Executive Producers: Ruthie Rogers, Zad Rogers

Recorded at: River Café: https://www.rivercafe.co.uk/

Ruthie’s Table 4 is an Atomized Studios production: https://www.atomizedstudios.tv/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
35 min
September 15 From the Archive: Zoe Saldaña on Growing Up in Queens, Family Recipes & Why NYC Has the Best Pizza
As we look forward to Series 6 in October, we’re revisiting some of our favourite episodes of Ruthie’s Table 4.

Zoe Saldaña was a force from the moment she entered the restaurant back in 2025. She told us stories about her grandmother’s coconut desserts, how her family dances through life, and what it was like growing up in Queens.

We talked about Caribbean soups, Dominican cooking and New York pizza — and by the end of the episode, we were all ready to eat.

Hit FOLLOW to make sure you never miss an episode, and join the Ruthie’s Table 4 community on social.

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TikTok: tiktok.com/@ruthiestable4

YouTube: youtube.com/@RuthiesTable4Pod

Shop River Café Books and more… www.shoptherivercafe.co.uk

Contact us: ⁠[email protected]

Recorded at: River Café: https://www.rivercafe.co.uk/

Ruthie’s Table 4 is an Atomized Studios production: https://www.atomizedstudios.tv/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
50 min
September 07 How Food Shapes Our Work… Gayle King, Mark Ronson, Graham Norton, Emerald Fennell, and Patrick Radden Keefe.
Whether in film, music, books or television, food can be a source of inspiration or integral to the way we work.

In this special compilation episode of Ruthie's Table 4, we're talking about the shared ingredients of what we do, with Gayle King, Mark Ronson, Graham Norton, Emerald Fennell – the director of Wuthering Heights, and Patrick Radden Keefe – the author of London Falling.

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YouTube: youtube.com/@RuthiesTable4Pod

Shop River Café Books and more… www.shoptherivercafe.co.uk

Contact us: ⁠[email protected]

Credits

Presented by Ruthie Rogers: instagram.com/ruthierogers

Production Manager: Bella Salini

YouTube Editor: Andrew Tsang

Producers: Alex Bell & Robbie Hamilton

Editors: Alex Bell and Julia Johnson

Executive Producers: Ruthie Rogers, Zad Rogers

Recorded at: River Café: https://www.rivercafe.co.uk/

Ruthie’s Table 4 is an Atomized Studios production: https://www.atomizedstudios.tv/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
22 min
August 31 Where Food Meets Politics… Jacinda Ardern, Andrew Jarecki, Erin Lyall, Hilton Als, Annie Leibovitz, Kamala Harris
I've always thought we judge a culture by the way we feed our poor, our sick and our prisoners.

In this special compilation episode of Ruthie's Table 4, we're talking about food and politics, in conversation with Jacinda Ardern, documentary filmmaker Andrew Jarecki, CBS conflict producer Erin Lyall, writer and critic Hilton Als, Annie Leibovitz, and Kamala Harris.

Hit FOLLOW to make sure you never miss an episode, and join the Ruthie’s Table 4 community on social.

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TikTok: tiktok.com/@ruthiestable4

YouTube: youtube.com/@RuthiesTable4Pod

Shop River Café Books and more… www.shoptherivercafe.co.uk

Contact us: ⁠[email protected]

Credits

Presented by Ruthie Rogers: instagram.com/ruthierogers

Production Manager: Bella Salini

YouTube Editor: Andrew Tsang

Producers: Alex Bell & Robbie Hamilton

Editors: Alex Bell and Julia Johnson

Executive Producers: Ruthie Rogers, Zad Rogers

Recorded at: River Café: https://www.rivercafe.co.uk/

Ruthie’s Table 4 is an Atomized Studios production: https://www.atomizedstudios.tv/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
28 min

About Ruthie's Table 4

From the publisher's feed

For nearly forty years, The River Cafe in London has been a home-from-home for artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists and politicians. It is also the home of its co-founder, Ruthie Rogers — restaurateur, cookbook author, podcast host and one of the most influential figures in British food.