White Wine Question Time

Welcome to White Wine Question Time, where on Tuesdays we dust off some of our very best episodes from the cellar. This month it's all about our favourite April Fools - the very best funny women and men we've raised a glass with. You'll hear from Joe Lycett, Katherine Ryan (this episode), Stewart Lee, and Ellie Taylor - but they're just the tip of the iceberg; if you want more comedians there are...

Happy Weekend! Today we're putting another of YOUR questions to our guests... and after her fascinating chat earlier this week we're back for a little bit more of Angela Rippon. Keep an eye on our Instagram page for upcoming guest announcements including Ben Shepherd, Ben Elton and Ellie Simmonds - if you have a question you'd like to ask you can email us on hello@whitewinepod.com Cheers! Hosted o...

Welcome to White Wine Question Time - and this week it's the incredible Angela Rippon. An absolute trailblazer through six decades in broadcasting Angela is a national treasure who's broken more than one glass ceiling. In this conversation you'll hear how she handled misogynistic setbacks with silent resilience and her trademark sharp wit, how simple acts like dancing around the kitchen can have a...

Welcome to White Wine Question Time - and we're continuing to search around in out cellar of almost 500 episodes to pull out some of the very best episodes from our ever-growing archive. Each Tuesday we'll bring you a highlight from the past SEVEN YEARS, and we're continuing to drop new episodes every Thursday. We're also putting YOUR questions to our guests every Saturday in a bonus Weekend Wine...

Welcome to the first WEEKEND Wine Question Time... As we approach our 500th episode we wanted to invite YOU to have your say and put your questions to our guests. To get in touch you can DM us via Instagram or email us We'd love to know what you think! Happy Easter from the whole team at White Wine Question Time. Cheers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We have something new for you this week - in addition to a brilliant new episode from Cold Feet star Hermione Norris (we now have a full set of Cold Feet actors!) we're only days away from our first SATURDAY episode. We'll now be releasing a bonus Weekend Wine Question Time episode on a Saturday morning featuring YOUR questions put to our guests - so watch out for new guest announcements on Instag...

For the last of March's Inspirational Women episodes we're looking back to 2023 and our chat with Brenda Edwards. From X Factor to the West End and spot on the Loose Women panel Brenda has kept moving forward through times of tragedy. She is the very definition of inspiration. We hope you've enjoyed this look back at our fabulous femails - next month we'll turn our attention to four fantastic Apri...

Born in Shanxi province, China in 1993 Carlos Gu was raised by his single mother who supported his dancing ambitions which saw him become a Chinese National Champion dancer. He’s been competing on a global stage since a young age but in 2022 he received the phone call he’d dreamed of – an invitation to join Strictly Come Dancing and a move to London – somewhere he’s always imagined could be his ho...

Time for another trip to our cellar archive to find another brilliant inspiration woman - as we've been doing throughout March. This is one of our favourite EVER episodes - recorded in 2024 we surprised Jane McDonald with messages from her former colleagues on Loose Women as they reminisced over their favourite Jane moments. It's an absolute joy - and well worth another listen, Cheers! Hosted on A...

Steve Backshall is a BAFTA winning nature presenter famous for bringing wildlife and adventure to life for audiences of all ages. His infectious enthusiasm and a  fearless  approach to exploration, has inspired millions to take an interest in the natural world and the creatures that inhabit it.  Born in 1973 in Bagshot, Surrey, he grew up exploring the world outside h...

As we celebrated International Women's Day earlier in the month we've been looking back at inspirational woman who've appeared on the podcast over the past seven years. Today it's the triple threat of Hannah Waddingham. It's a fabulous conversation from 2024 as she started filming for series 3 of Ted Lasso, on the eve of Emmy recognition. Listen, be inspired, and enjoy. Cheers. Hosted on Acast. Se...

Richard Herring became half of a decade-defining comedy act with Stewart Lee – thanks to a chance meeting in an Oxford cricket pavilion which was the genesis of a 13-year creative partnership which included the cult classic Fist of Fun and the legendary Edinburgh Fringe show ‘This Morning with Richard not Judy’   Another important pairing came along in 2008 when he teamed up with the NME jour...

To celebrate International Women's Day we've dug deep in our archive to find some truly inspirational women. Bonnie Langford has been treading the boards and entertaining us since before she was a teenager. Her career is as extraordinary as it is long and she has the anecdotes and stories worthy of someone who's been in as many legendary shows as she has. In this chat we chart the ups and downs, t...

On this week's episode we're chatting to one of the most instantly recognisable voices in British comedy. Lucy Beaumont was raised by her mother – the playwright Gill Adams in Hull, she went to school and University in the city and got her first acting jobs at the Hull Truck Theatre. Her comedy breakthrough was almost accidental – her first stand-up gigs were an attempt to conquer her stage fright...

Throughout March we're celebrating inspirational women, and where better to start than 80s pop star turned award-winning horticulturalist, Kim Wilde. In this episode, Kim takes us through her incredible journey—from a shy girl raised in a musical household to a teen being catapulted to global fame with "Kids in America", a song that changed everything for her and her family. Here, she reflects on...

Our guest on this episode of White Wine Question Tim is Joanna Page, an actor and presenter from Swansea, who was told whilst she was training at RADA that she was not a bad actress, the problem was that she was Welsh… Luckily for all of us she didn’t let these comments hold her back, and ended up leaving RADA early to join the Royal National Theatre and then the Royal Shakespeare Company, appeari...

Time for our final look back at the best couples' conversations from our archive. This week we're heading back to one of our live episodes. After our interview Martin & Shirlie were good enough to stick around and record a special episode answering questions from our audience. You can find the interview in our archive but we wanted to play this bonus episode - Martin and Shirlie were on EXCELL...

Dave Stewart is a true music icon. Born in Sunderland in 1952 his first love affair was with football – dreaming of a career playing for the Black Cats, but a knee injury and his parents’ divorce changed his entire outlook. Music filled a hole - despite a music teacher who described his dreams as ‘idiotic’ it became his passion, inspired by his Dad’s high-tech (for the 70s!) stereo system, a Rober...

Valentine's weekend may have been and gone, but throughout February we're looking back at some of our favourite couples' conversations from our archive. This week it's Strictly Come Dancing's power couple - Janette Manrara & Aljaž Škorjanec. Hear how their romance bloomed on the touring dance show 'Burn the Floor', why they only row once every three years and the best engagement story we've ev...

Josh Widdicombe is one of the most recognisable comedians on our TV screens right now. Along with Adam Hills and Alex Brooker (both in our back catalogue) he's presented more than THIRTY seasons into The Last Leg - a show which was only meant to run for a few weeks during the 2012 Paralympics! He's also, along with fellow comedian Rob Beckett, responsible for Parenting Hell - one of the most succe...

Well we had to didn't we? Throughout February we're celebrating the best of the couples' conversations we've shared over the past seven years, and with the Winter Olympics under way in Italy we're reliving one of Team GB's most iconic moments on ice with Jane Torvill & Christopher Dean. WE KNOW their relationship is a professional one, and a decades-long friendship - but here on White Wine Que...

Welcome to White Wine Question Time - we're not far away from our 500th episode - and as ever we do want to say thank you for listening whether you're new to our show or whether you're one of the OG listeners. As we prepare for the NEXT 500 shows we'd love to know who your favourite guests have been - drop us an email (about that or anything else!) to hello@whitewinepod.com. Now this week we have...

Throughout February we’re celebrating the month of love by hearing some of our favourite couples conversations from the Cellar. This week it's a couple so iconic that no surnames are required; it’s Richard and Judy. With their signature warmth, wit, and unmistakable chemistry, these broadcasting legends dominated the breakfast TV schedules in the nineties and early noughties. In this show they sha...

January is almost over, the days are getting (slightly!) longer and this week we've got something else to brighten your mood - an extremely funny, and emotional chat with one third of The Last Leg trio, Alex Brooker. As a child he underwent over 40 operations with no guarantee that he'd ever walk. Now with two daughters of his own he reflects on what that time must have been like for his own paren...

This week, we’re heading back down to the cellar to revisit a fascinating chat with renowned psychotherapist and bestselling author Owen O’Kane. Owen’s journey is as compelling as his advice—growing up during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, training as a priest, working in palliative care, and finally finding his true calling as a therapist. In this episode, he shares powerful tools to recognise...