White Wine Question Time

Welcome back to White Wine Question Time Our guest today is the brilliant actor Jason Watkins, and this is a great conversation that starts with his incredible ancestry, and takes in his time studying at RADA, what he's learned about relationships and his reflections on the loss of his daughter to Sepsis. We promised Jason that in the notes for this episode we'd post links to the UK Sepsis Trust a...

Welcome to Weekend Wine Question Time, where on Saturdays we bring you a bonus question with our latest guest. This week it's 5 times gold medal winning Paralympian Ellie Simmonds. Keep an eye on our Instagram page @whitewine_questiontime for upcoming guest announcements, and drop us a DM if you have a question you'd like to put to them. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the very best arch...

Welcome to White Wine Question Time, where on Thursdays we raise a glass with a brand new guest. This week we welcome 5 times gold medal winning British Paralympian Ellie Simmonds to the show to talk about forgiveness, retirement, speaking up, and reconnecting with her birth mum. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss our bonus episodes of Weekend White Wine Question Time every Saturday, the ve...

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, Katharine Ryan, Stewart Lee, and Ellie Taylor (this episode) - but they're just the tip of the iceberg; if you want more comedians there are...

Welcome to White Wine Question Time, where usually on Thursdays we raise a glass with a brand new guest, but this week is a little bit different... Owing to Kate's broken shoulder we couldn't bring you a brand new episode this week, but we do have some additional chat from our episode with the wonderful Scarlett Moffatt from January this year. It's all about her stint in the new series of I'm A Ce...

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, Katharine Ryan, Stewart Lee (this episode), and Ellie Taylor - but they're just the tip of the iceberg; if you want more comedians there are...

Welcome to Weekend Wine Question Time, where on Saturdays we bring you a bonus question with our latest guest. This week it's comedian and podcaster Maisie Adam. Keep an eye on our Instagram page @whitewine_questiontime for upcoming guest announcements including Ben Shepherd, Ben Elton and Ellie Simmonds - if you have a question you'd like to ask our guests, email us on hello@whitewinepod.com Make...

Welcome to White Wine Question Time, where on Thursdays we raise a glass with a brand new guest. This week we welcome comedian and podcaster Maisie Adam who tells us all about getting married and taking part in Soccer Aid in the same weekend, the new series of Last One Laughing, and being in her Tadpole Era. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss our bonus episodes of Weekend White Wine Questio...

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...