Born in Manchester in 1985, Emma Barnett is a journalist and broadcaster. She studied at the University of Nottingham and Cardiff School of Journalism. Her career began in 2007 at the business magazine Media Week; she has since worked for the Daily Telegraph, LBC, BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. Her book Period: It’s About Bloody Time, which chronicled her experience of endometriosis, was published in 2019. This year, Barnett joined the presenting team on Radio 4’s Today programme. She lives in London with her husband and two children.
My parents thought it would be a lovely idea to have an official photo taken of me. There is something about this image that is so strange. I don’t object to pink, or to jumpsuits – I don’t personally wear them, but I know people do – but it’s the assured corporate pose that I was put in by the photographer that makes me look businesslike and grown up. In spite of that, my grandpa, who was a doctor, had this picture framed and hung it over his desk.
