Webb Justin

Where would you go to conduct an interview if you wanted discretion and also some good food and drink?

My favourite place to take someone for a relaxed meal and chat would be the Spanish restaurant Moro in Exmouth Market, close to the newly refurbished Farringdon station (34–36, Exmouth Market, EC1). The tables are reasonably far apart; it has a buzz and it is usually busy, but quiet enough to talk.

If you get a break during Today (perhaps when Thought For The Day is on) are you ever able to sneak in breakfast?

I am really strict about food and Today : I don’t eat at all the night before presenting, so that I wake up hungry. At about 5am, after I have been working for an hour, I have a bowl of cereal in the office. That’s it! I don’t eat or drink during the programme—there really isn’t time and it’d be a fuss. The three hours on air are filled pretty completely with things happening and sudden changes of plan and direction, so stuffing yourself with any food or drink simply wouldn’t be possible.

‘The Gift of a Radio’ by Justin Webb is out now (Doubleday, £16.99)