What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty
S4 EP22: Briony May Williams
30 May 2026
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Chapter 1: What did Briony May Williams do yesterday?
podcasts there are millions of them some might say too many i have one already i don't have any because there are enough politics business sport you name it there's a podcast about it and they all ask the big questions and cover the hot topics of the day but nobody is covering the most important topic of all why is that are they scared too afraid of being censored by the man
Possibly, but not us. We're here to ask the only question that matters. We try and say it at the same time, Max. What did you do yesterday? What did you do yesterday? What did you do yesterday? That's it. All we're interested in is what the guests got up to yesterday. Nothing more.
Day before yesterday, Max? Nope. The greatest and most interesting day of your life? Unless it was yesterday, we don't want to know about it. I'm Max Rushton. And I'm David O'Doherty.
Welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? Hello and welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday? My name is Max Rushton. Alongside me, David O'Doherty. Welcome, David.
It's a great pleasure to have on today's podcast a fellow legend of Bake Off. Yeah. Now, some would say that Brian E. May Williams made more of a cultural impact
well you know going on it and being the star basically of an entire series that is one of the most beloved series don't put yourself down david my uh large flat meringue that paul hollywood said was too big to put in the oven and it would just crack was your showstopper your own head in meringue is that what it was my
Oh, I'm sorry, Dave. Is it getting too much? I had a friend, Dave, who I kept talking about his big nose. And he once said to me, can you stop talking about it? And so I did.
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Chapter 2: How does Briony start her day at 6:15 AM?
And I've never talked about it since. So if you don't want me to bring it up, I won't.
People have traditionally mocked my short legs, long torso ratio.
But we spend a lot of time in not together. yes a lot of our time we are just looking at each other's heads so really any sort of like for want of a better word banter between us if it's to do with appearance it will be quite head based exactly yeah yeah like you could have huge feet like a clown i have the feet of a mallard but nobody but nobody knows
I don't mind the head one because it's not a traditional thing that people have mocked me for is the point I'm making. So it's almost fun. You know what I mean? It'd be like if I started mocking you about having your ears are too perfectly shaped. You know what I mean? Your ears look like they're AI, something like that.
Pretty big, actually. When I'm old, these will be big old Prince Charles. I'll be like the FA Cup. Anyway, back to Bryony Mae Williams. It's a good day, this. We just recorded it. It's a good day.
Yeah, it's really good. You will know her from her chef stuff, various recipe things, appearing on a litany of TV shows. She has a podcast. I'm not judging, but. I did make the point to her off air that if you put two Ts on that, it's a parenting podcast, but sticking two Ts on it, they are not judging asses.
and they're not in fairness it feels more like the loaded magazine if podcasts were in the 90s there would be I am judging but it would just be you know ranking the bottoms of various people do they still do best bottom Britain's best bottom or something rear of the ear it wasn't called Britain's best bottom Britain's best bottom is on all the productions of a midsummer night stream that have been on this year who played bottom the best
This episode, I'm very pleased with it. I think it's a good one and it's not another of my comedy friends. That's another plus for it. Ladies and gentlemen, this is what Bryony Mae Williams did yesterday.
Bryony Mae Williams, welcome to What Did You Do Yesterday?
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Chapter 3: What breakfast does Briony prepare for her daughter?
I'm excited to be here. How are you doing?
I'm well, I'm absolutely knackered, but that's not this podcast. I want it to be honest. It's day seven of 10 of solo parenting, but this is not my episode, Bryony. It's your episode. How are you?
I'm very well, thank you. I am not solo parenting. So, you know, life is good. Got my little pooch sat next to me. He's having a little slumber. So yeah, I'm all good.
Wow. Our lives are just such fun and so brilliant compared to yours, Max. Look, I know we've got something to get to now, but to the listeners, this is one of the saddest faces I've ever seen.
I think you look really bright and well for 7 out of 10, you know? It's AI.
He's just AI-ed a version of himself.
You probably remember the BBC London 94.9 Breakfast Show from 2006, where I hosted with Jo Good, who used to be in Crossroads. And she used to say, Dr. Footlights, as in when they say go, when you're on air, you just have to turn it on. I'm just delivering. Right now, I'm just delivering.
What ring light are you using? Because it's really quite magical. It's enormous. I know.
He's driven his Subaru into the front of the shed and he's just put on high beams and there he goes pointing directly at him.
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Chapter 4: What are Briony's thoughts on swimming and fitness?
You know, it's not like a eh-eh. It's kind of more of a gentle do-do-do-do-do. I don't like to be woken up abruptly. That's not.
Because I sense it's going off a lot. You've got like 15 alarms and the surge is coming back in. And so you don't want like, it's otherwise, it's a bit like that bit in SAS, Who Dares Wins, where, you know, you've got to the end and then they put a bag on your head and basically play you an alarm for 50 hours. And then it's proof that you could be in the SAS. Yes.
Yeah, no, it's not like that. It's more like I'm waking up in like a fairy dream, you know, like, oh, there's fairies in my bedroom. That's lovely. That's nice. And then I just shut them up for eight minutes and then some more fairies come in. And yeah, that's generally how we roll.
I'm breaking the rules of the podcast here. But because Max has children that wake him up at 4am at the moment, when was the last time you were woken with an alarm, Max? Because you are asking people what their alarms are. That's a good question. I'm wondering, do you ever need it?
Yeah.
If I've got a radio show at 10 at night or midnight, then I have to have a nap for an hour and a half. Got it. Every time of day is in my alarms. Yeah. From 1 a.m. to 11 p.m. There's not a minute of the day that I haven't gone, oh, 11, 17. It's possible. When you wake up your daughter, is it just open the door and hello? Or is it like- It's a struggle.
Yeah.
No, it's quite a gentle, gentle kind of like I'll climb into her bed and be like, morning, darling. Oh, that's nice. She's only 10. We've only got one child. So, you know, actually. Brilliant choice.
Great.
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Chapter 5: How does Briony balance parenting and her career?
The dog, however, is starting to become a bit of a pain in the ass. So he's going to be 12 in a few months. Oh, yeah. He's a cockapoo. He's very sweet.
So you're going to get six cockapoos. I'm going to get six cockapoos.
I'm all right with that, as long as they're puppies. We think he's going a bit senile. We've taken him to the vets and they think he might be getting a bit of doggy dementia. He starts howling at like half six in the morning and I'm like, I still had another eight minutes of snoozing.
I mean, you can't with a dog ask who the prime minister is.
I asked him to draw a clock and it just sucks. It was just terrible. So he couldn't put the numbers inside. It was weird.
It's just his answers just get a bit more rambling, Joe Biden style. He's just mumbling.
He can tell you the starting 11 of Chan Athletic in 1952.
It's amazing. It really is.
So the daughter's awake. Nora's awake. The dog is howling.
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Chapter 6: What is Briony's experience with filming content for social media?
She should be having something much more respectable, like lemon curd on toast or something.
A pheasant.
A pheasant, yes. Exactly. Kedri. I can't imagine. Yeah, I'm not making kedri in the morning. Because I don't eat breakfast, really. I'm not a big breakfast person. I just rather have a cup of tea.
Wow.
So, yeah, there's not a lot going on in that sense in the morning.
I'll know in the future if I ever read one of your recipes that's a breakfast-based one. I'll be like, this is bullshit. Bullshit.
She's never made that in her life.
Take one bowl from the cupboard, open the Crave, add milk. And serve. Preparation time, 45 minutes. All right, so she's eating her Crave. Do you sit with her with your tea and that's a nice moment?
Sorry, and then what that recipe needs is the full page story of when I was a child, my grandmother would bring me a bowl of Crave every morning.
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Chapter 7: What unique recipes is Briony experimenting with?
I haven't seen him in anything in a while.
What's Rob Lowe doing in this?
He's firefighting with his son.
A Nepo baby fireman. Yeah.
So I watch a bit of that, but I do doom scroll at the same time. I do check my Insta.
Could you tell us what happened in yesterday's 911 Lone Star?
Oh, there was definitely a fire.
Okay, right. They're just back at the station. They go around schools and they're doing a demo and they get a kite out of a tree. Yeah. Worst episode ever.
It was a night shift and they all just, no calls. They just slept. Rob's got a second job as a plumber. He got his rods and he's doing stuff on the side for Pimlico plumbers. Rob Lowe doing nothing as a fireman. It's great.
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Chapter 8: How does Briony unwind at the end of her day?
Yeah.
Then it's not going to be the one.
With a hummus scone, it's cream then jam. With a baba ganoush scone, it is jam then cream. And you must not make the mistake.
No, God forbid. I might make a tiramisu latte scone.
Well, I'm not interested. That is a terrible idea. I know, right?
And then I was reading some comments and one woman told me that I was overacting and that I wasn't like that on Bake Off.
So that was nice.
Then a few comments underneath being like, Francis, calm down. She's making hummus scones.
Yeah.
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