‘ROY’S BANNED ME FROM PUTTING HIM OR OUR KID ON INSTAGRAM’

Then there’s her early Sunday morning show on BBC Radio 2 (on a break during lockdown), where she walks through the doors of Wogan House at the BBC, named after her Irish predecessor, and feels a thrill of being there. ‘Just to be in the same building as Zoe Ball and Graham Norton – I’m like, “Hi, will I get your tea?” It’s a lovely contrast to the fanfare and production of telly. It’s just you and a producer and you have that sense of someone out there, listening. You know that you’re their company.’ Television remains her equally great ambition, though, because Angela has noticed that there aren’t any female chat-show hosts on our screens – a planned Saturday night slot on RTÉ with her show Ask Me Anything, was postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak.

‘Graham Norton, Jonathan Ross, Alan Carr, Russell Howard…’ she says, reeling off the names of men whose shows she might love watching, but always with a sense that something is missing. ‘I feel like Ruby Wax was the last woman who really did it,’ she adds, a ]nd that was in the 1990s. So would she really like to host one? ‘Absolutely. Yes,’ she says emphatically, ready for the challenge. It’s clear to me that she carries both the energy and the wit to have people in stitches. ‘I mean, why not?’ she adds. ‘As my dad very optimistically says, you could be dead in the morning.’

Your Home Made Perfect is on BBC Two on Tuesdays at 8pm and the full series is available on iPlayer. Angela’s podcast Thanks A Million is available to download on the usual platforms