Angela Rippon a Legacy of Innovation and Inspiration
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
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 an enormous impact, and letting your work speak for you.
If you love this episode we have more from Angela on Saturday when she'll answer one of your questions.
Cheers!
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of white wine question time suddenly i'm doing something in front of |
| 0:08.4 | maybe a million you know a couple of million people and i said you know so it was a bit nerve-wracking |
| 0:13.3 | dad and my father who was a roll marine he said the next time you go in the studio and you look at |
| 0:18.8 | the camera he said talk to, tell me the story. |
| 0:22.6 | So many people say to me, you know, what's the thing you enjoy most? What's the outstanding thing? |
| 0:27.6 | And it is the variety. It's the fact that, yes, I did strictly come dancing and danced for 12 weeks, |
| 0:33.6 | but I can still go into a newsroom and still take on the main stories of the day. |
| 0:38.3 | When people say, and do you think you'd like to do so and so, I either say, no, that's not for me or flippin' heck, yes, I'd love to have a good at that. |
| 0:47.3 | And I've just accepted the challenge of being a broadcaster. I'm not a narrowcaster. I'm a broadcaster. |
| 0:59.1 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, the podcast that asked its guests three thought |
| 1:03.7 | provoking questions over three glasses of wine. And my guest today is quite simply a broadcasting |
| 1:10.1 | legend and trailblazer who began her career at the age of 17 as a photo journalist for the Western Morning News. |
| 1:17.2 | In 1975, she became the first female journalist to permanently present the BBC National News. |
| 1:23.8 | She's since hosted Top Gear, Antiques Roadshow and Rip Off Britain and in 2023 became the oldest contestant to ever compete on Strictly Come Dancing, a show that, by the way, she'd also previously hosted back in the 80s. |
| 1:37.1 | An only child, she was born in 1944 to a working-class family in Plymouth. |
| 1:42.1 | As a teenager, she trained as a classical dancer and harboured |
| 1:45.5 | ambitions to become a photojournalist, landing a job straight out of school. She moved on to become an |
| 1:51.1 | apprentice reporter all the while taking the equivalent of what would be now, a three-year |
| 1:54.9 | university degree in media studies. Professionally, she is something of a Swiss army knife, able to steer the national |
| 2:02.1 | evening news, state events and election coverage with Saturday night entertainment and huge |
| 2:07.2 | live shows like the Eurovision Song Contest, all with the same elegance and flair that she demonstrated |
| 2:12.3 | with Morkham and Wise when she famously danced with them on their Christmas special back in |
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