White Wine Question Time

Today's guest is a pantomime design dandy who's fantastically extra on every level. He's an interior designer and TV personality who has spent almost three decades on screen telling us what to do with our homes: it's Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen! Now in "so-called retirement", Laurence fills his time with about as wide a range of design tasks as possible. He joins us to chat about where those hobbies have taken him, what he's learned from three decades on screen and how he really feels about the design disasters people earnestly credit him for so often! For all the latest news, click here to follow us on Instagram!***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!***

With November on the horizon, we're gearing up for another wild season of I'm a Celeb! To celebrate, we're dusting off a fan-favourite episode with none other than the 2015 Jungle Queen herself: the lovely Vicky Pattison! Join us as we dive back into her world of life, love, and all the juicy bits in between.For all the latest news, click here to follow us on Instagram!***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!***

Our guest today is a hugely impressive woman who can turn her hand seamlessly to just about anything: it’s legendary broadcaster and journalist, Vanessa Feltz!We spoke to Vanessa ahead of the release of her deeply personal autobiography - the book she swore she’d never write - about the ups and downs of an amazing professional and personal life. It’s an inspiring, occasionally heartbreaking lesson in resilience, persistence and insisting on having a bloody good time whenever possible!Grab your copy of Vanessa's new autobiography 'Vanessa Bares All' right here! For all the latest news, click here to follow us on Instagram!***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!***

This week, we’re wrapping up Menopause Awareness Month with an inspiring lineup of women who’ve come out the other side!First, Sex and the City creator Candace Bushnell shares how post-menopause is her most empowering chapter yet - and dishes on the new trend of 70-something weddings! Next, Kaye Adams opens up about overcoming her age-phobic past and embracing her 60s with confidence. And finally, the cast of Dun Breedin’ - Julie Graham, Angela Griffin, Denise Welch, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Alison Newman, and Tamzin Outhwaite - reflect on womanhood and offer advice to their younger selves!Loved these chats? Click here to listen to the full episodes now: Candace Bushnell, Kaye Adams and the cast of Dun Breedin!For all the latest news, click here to follow us on Instagram!***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!***

Joining us today is a man whose voice is synonymous with radio greatness and whose charm, sharp wit, and quick humour has made him a favourite on our screens. He knows how to keep an audience hooked: it’s the brilliant Johnny Vaughan!In this episode, Johnny looks back at his time working on The Big Breakfast, reflecting on the challenge of stepping into big shoes and how he quickly made the role distinctly his own. He also shares how he’s built one of radio’s most loyal audiences, navigated the pressures of being one of the BBC’s highest-paid presenters and how some hilarious interviews led to delightfully unexpected friendships with legends like David Bowie and George Michael.If you can’t get enough of him, tune into The 4 to 7 Thang every weekday on Radio X.For all the latest news, click here to follow us on Instagram!***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!***

Today, instead of taking our regular trip down to the cellar, Kate welcomes Lynn and Terry, two White Wine Question Time listeners who bravely share how our menopause series has transformed their relationship in such a difficult life stage.In this candid chat, they reflect on the challenges menopause can bring to our closest relationships, and how, with a little support and allyship, they found a way through. But that’s not all – Kate also catches up with her (and Lynn’s!) personal trainer, Richie, to get expert advice on how exercise during menopause and perimenopause can reduce stress and boost your mood in a time you need it most.You can find the rest of our menopause series here: The Menopause - and what’s next with Tamzin Outhwaite and Dr. Lydia Robertson, Bridging the age gap on Menopause Awareness and World Menopause Day with Lisa Snowdon & Dr. Naomi Potter.If, like Lynn and Terry, our episodes have made a difference to your menopause journey, we’d love to hear your story - drop us a message on Instagram here!***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!***

You’ll no doubt recognise today’s guest from some of the biggest shows on British TV over the last two decades - from Peak Practice and Doctor Who to Bancroft and Industry. And if not those, then definitely that insane Boddingtons beer advert in 1994: it’s Sarah Parish!Sarah joins Kate on the show a few years late - she explains everything - for a chat about some of the scarcely believable acting gigs she’s had, how tragedy has shaped her incredible charity work and some of the scrapes she’s gotten herself into while living her life to the absolute fullest!Catch Sarah in the new Paramount+ drama Curfew right here!For all the latest news, click here to follow us on Instagram!***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!***

Today, in celebration of Menopause Awareness Month, we’re looking back at a phenomenal conversation we had last year with Lisa Snowden and our favourite menopause expert, Dr. Naomi Potter. Here we get informed, inspired and comforted on all things perimenopause and menopause.You can find the rest of our menopause series here: The Menopause - and what’s next with Tamzin Outhwaite and Dr. Lydia Robertson and Bridging the age gap on Menopause Awareness.If we’ve helped you have a smoother transition into the menopause we’d love to hear your story, so please message us on our instagram here!***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!***

Today’s guest is associated with the most iconic catchphrase of the 1990s, whose distinct eras of presenting and acting across a sixty-year career have made him a true household name across the UK - and tonight Matthew, he’s in Kate’s kitchen: it’s Matthew Kelly!Matthew and Kate discuss how his esteemed career is built on a few simple but important truths. Matthew also reveals all about his (botched) attempt to manifest himself an Oscar, the joys of grandparenting and a relentless commitment to pushing yourself on stage and screen.You can get tickets to see Matthew in the new production of Filumena alongside Felicity Kendal right here!For all the latest news, click here to follow us on Instagram!***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!***