Alex Brooker on The Last Leg, Soccer Aid and Skipping Queues...
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
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 parents. He talks about how he actually looks back with fond memories on the many hospital trips, and with his typical dark humour wonders if his mum might have been a bit hasty with the decision to amputate!
You get the impression listening to this interview that Alex understands, and appreciate the many people who've helped him on his journey from Great Ormond Street to winning awards for his TV work, especially as there have been a few moments where some simple decisions could have changed his story completely.
Thanks so much to Alex for stopping by for a chat - I hope you all enjoy it too.
Cheers!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of White Wine Question Time. |
| 0:06.4 | They basically had to make the decision to amputate it, |
| 0:09.2 | and I said to my mum, that must have been agonising. |
| 0:11.8 | And she just goes, nah, we know straight away. |
| 0:14.3 | But it's obviously, you see that woman in a restaurant |
| 0:16.2 | how long it takes her to decide what she's going to have. |
| 0:18.6 | She's the most indecisive woman, apart from when it comes to limbs. I was asked to go and cover this open day where they're looking for disabled people for the Paralympics. I was asked to go and cover it. And then I got asked to do the last one, which was rifle shooting. That is the best I've ever been at anything straight away. Literally hitting nines and tens, they got someone to come over and watch, kept doing it. I got invited on to this development squad. And I was, you know, on a path to go to London, 2012 as an athlete. And I quit. You get a load of results out of it. If you look past the kind the kind of oh gosh I've got put a leg on this morning |
| 0:55.5 | you go yeah but |
| 0:56.8 | Disney |
| 0:57.9 | no queuing |
| 0:59.5 | just took the girls to Disney |
| 1:02.4 | before Christmas |
| 1:03.2 | they love the lifestyle |
| 1:04.8 | as much as I do |
| 1:06.0 | obviously I've had a bit of work out of it |
| 1:09.0 | I've done alright work-wise I've done a bit of work out of it. |
| 1:13.0 | I've done all right, work-wise. |
| 1:17.9 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time. |
| 1:22.3 | The podcast that asked its guests three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. |
| 1:28.0 | And my guest today is a man you may well have spent your Friday nights watching for the last 14 years as one third of the last legs hosting line up. He's a comedian, a broadcaster and journalist. |
| 1:33.9 | He made his television debut after winning a Channel 4 talent search to cover the London |
| 1:38.6 | 2012 Paralympics and he's pretty much been a firm fixture on our screens ever since. |
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