Tea With Twiggy

Sadie Frost is an English actress, director, producer and fashion designer who has just released the documentary film "Quant" based around the life of the British fashion designer Mary Quant. The music for the podcast is Twiggy's version of "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks and can be found on Apple Music at this link https://music.apple.com/gb/album/romantically-yours/693460953 If you’ve enjoyed lis...

Clare Dunne is an Irish actress, born in Dublin. She has appeared in stage roles with the Abbey Theatre and the National Theatre. She co-wrote and starred as Sandra in "Herself" (2020), which reunited her with director Phyllida Lloyd who appeared on this podcast previously. The music for the podcast is Twiggy's version of "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks and can be found on Apple Music at this link...

Deborah Meaden is a British businesswoman and TV personality who ran a family holiday business, before completing a management buyout, but is now best known for her appearances on the BBC Two business programme Dragons' Den. Deborah took over from Rachel Elnaugh in the third series in August 2006. Like Rachel, Deborah was the only female investor, although this changed in subsequent seasons with t...

Peter Michael McCartney , known professionally as Mike McGear, is an English performing artist and photographer who was a member of the groups The Scaffold and Grimms.  McCartney was a photographer during his entire musical career and has continued with photography since then. Beatles' manager Brian Epstein nicknamed him "Flash Harry" in the early 1960s because he was always taking pictures with a...

Phyllida Lloyd, is an English theatre and film director and producer, best known for Mamma Mia! (2008) and The Iron Lady (2011). Her theatre work includes directing productions at the Royal Court Theatre and Royal National Theatre, and opera director for Opera North and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. As this episode goes out Phyllida's third theatrically released film, Herself, will be avail...

Charles Gordon-Lennox, 11th Duke of Richmond, is a British aristocrat and owner of Goodwood Estate in West Sussex. He is the founder of the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Goodwood Revival. He is president of the British Automobile Racing Club, Patron of the TT Riders Association and an honorary member of the British Racing Drivers Club, the Guild of Motoring Writers, and the 500 Owners Club. T...

Frederick Forsyth is an English novelist and journalist. He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The Fist of God, Icon, The Veteran, Avenger, The Afghan, The Cobra and The Kill List. Forsyth's works frequently appear on best-sellers lists and more than a dozen of his titles have been adapted to fi...

Sarah, Duchess of York is a member of the British royal family. She is the mother of the princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. Sarah was raised in Dummer, Hampshire, and attended the Queen's Secretarial College. She later worked for public relations firms in London, and then for a publishing company. She began a relationship with Prince Andrew in 1985, and they were married on 23 July 1986 at Westminst...

Paul McKenna is a British hypnotist, behavioural scientist, television and radio broadcaster and author of self-help books. McKenna has written and produced books and multimedia products, hosted self-improvement television shows and presents seminars in hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming, weight loss, motivation and the Zen meditation Big Mind and Amygdala Depotentiation Therapy (ADT), otherwi...

Sir Timothy Smit KBE is a Dutch-born British businessman, famous for his work on the Lost Gardens of Heligan, the Eden Project, and the Charlestown Shipwreck & Treasure Centre, all in Cornwall, England. He studied archaeology and anthropology at Durham and worked as an archaeologist before taking an unexpected leap into the music business, working as both a songwriter and producer receiving seven...

Zoë Wanamaker CBE (born 13 May 1949) is an American-born British actress who has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. A nine-time Olivier Award nominee, she won for Once in a Lifetime (1979) and Electra (1998). She has also received four Tony Award nominations for her work on Broadway; for Piaf (1981), Loot (1986), Electra (1999), and Awake and Sing! (200...

Rita Wilson is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and producer. Her film appearances include Volunteers (1985), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Now and Then (1995), That Thing You Do! (1996), Jingle All the Way (1996), The Story of Us (1999), Runaway Bride (1999), It's Complicated (2009), and Larry Crowne (2011), and she appeared in the television series The Good Wife and Girls. Wilson has perf...

Lucinda Riley is an Irish author of popular historical fiction and a former actress. Riley spent the first few years of her life in the village of Drumbeg near Belfast before moving to England. She moved to London at 14 to attend to a specialist drama and ballet school. At 16 she got her first major television role in the BBC adaptation of The Story of the Treasure Seekers, followed shortly afterw...

Joy Mangano is an American inventor and entrepreneur known for inventions such as the Miracle Mop. She was the president of Ingenious Designs, LLC, and appeared regularly on the U.S. television shopping channel HSN until her departure in late 2018. Mangano released her autobiography, Inventing Joy, in 2017. The 2015 film Joy was loosely based on her life. Jennifer Lawrence was nominated for the Ac...

Roger Daltrey CBE is an English singer, songwriter, actor and film producer. He is a co-founder and the lead singer of the rock band the Who. Daltrey's hit songs with the Who include "My Generation", "Pinball Wizard", "Won't Get Fooled Again", "Baba O'Riley" and "You Better You Bet". He began his solo career in 1973, while still a member of the Who. Since then he has released ten solo studio album...

Susan George is an English film and television actress and producer. She was born in Surbiton, Surrey (now London). Susan trained at the Stage School, Corona Theatre School and has acted since the age of four. She is best known for appearing in such films as Straw Dogs (1971) with Dustin Hoffman, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974) with Peter Fonda, and Mandingo (1975) with Ken Norton. The music for th...

Brooke Shields is an American actress and model. She was initially a child model and gained critical acclaim at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby. Brooke garnered widespread notoriety in the role, and she continued to model into her late teenage years and starred in several dramas in the 1980s, including The Blue Lagoon (1980), and Franco Zeffirelli's Endless Love (1981...

Sienna Miller is a British-American actress. Born in New York City and raised in London, she began her career as a photography model, appearing in the pages of Italian Vogue. Her acting breakthrough came in the 2004 films Layer Cake and Alfie. She subsequently portrayed socialite Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl (2006) and author Caitlin Macnamara in The Edge of Love (2008), and was nominated for the...

Adam Buxton is a comedian, writer, podcaster, and actor. With filmmaker Joe Cornish, he is part of the comedy duo Adam and Joe. They presented the Channel 4 television series The Adam and Joe Show and the BBC Radio 6 Music series Adam and Joe. Adam has produced music videos, including several collaborations with the band Radiohead. In 2015, he launched The Adam Buxton Podcast, in which he intervie...

Danielle Minogue is an Australian singer, songwriter, actress, television personality, and fashion designer. She rose to prominence for her roles on the Australian television talent show Young Talent Time in the Eighties, and on the soap opera Home and Away, before beginning her career as a pop singer in the early 1990s. Dannii achieved early success with her debut studio album, Love and Kisses (1...

Grayson Perry is a contemporary artist, writer and broadcaster. He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries and cross-dressing, as well as his observations of the contemporary art scene, and for dissecting British "prejudices, fashions and foibles". Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance. There is a stro...

Sharleen Spiteri is a Scottish recording artist and songwriter from Glasgow, Scotland. She is the lead singer of the rock band Texas. In 2013, Texas's worldwide album sales were counted at 40 million records. Her debut solo album Melody was released in 2008, followed by a second solo album, The Movie Songbook, in March 2010. Texas returned from their hiatus in 2013 with The Conversation, which deb...

Michael Wood is an English historian and broadcaster. He has presented numerous well-known television documentary series from the late 1970s to the present day. Michael has also written a number of books on English history, including In Search of the Dark Ages, The Domesday Quest, The Story of England, and In Search of Shakespeare. He was appointed Professor of Public History at the University of...

Erin O'Connor, is a British fashion model. She was spotted by a talent scout whilst on a school trip to the Birmingham Clothes Show. Her first published pictures were by Juergen Teller for issue 159. The Undressed Issue issue of i-D in December 1996. She has modelled on the catwalk for John Galliano, Christian Dior, Donna Karan, Prada, Versace, Miu Miu, Jasper Conran, Giorgio Armani, Julien Macdon...

Bobby Cannavale is an American actor known for his various stage, television, and film roles, including regular or recurring roles in Third Watch, Boardwalk Empire, Vinyl, Will & Grace, Mr. Robot, and Master of None. From 2018 portrayed Colin Belfast in the Prime Video psychological thriller series Homecoming. Bobby was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and the Tony Aw...