Blue Lights star, actress Sian Brooke

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Are you watching Blue Lights? If not, why not?

On this episode is one of the stars of the Belfast-based cop drama. She's a star of stage and screen at the peak of her acting prowess. You may have seen her as Sherlock' Holmes' evil sister in Sherlock alongside Benedict Cumberbatch or starring opposite Suranne Jones in Doctor Foster. If you're really lucky you may have even seen her break-out theatre role as Ophelia in Hamlet at London's Barbican.

Sian rarely does podcast interviews - so what an honour to share a couple of glasses of wine and a really lovely chat about the confidence gained from early drama classes, the women who've reached down to help her on her journey, and the illness that nearly ended her career before it really began.

Sit back, grab whatever drink you fancy and enjoy!

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of white wine question time okay i feel quite emotional when i talk about
0:09.7	how important i think these people are and how vital i think they are and because i know
0:14.9	one thing for certain is that i would not be doing what i. Had these people not given me the self-belief
0:22.2	when I was in my teens to even think
0:25.7	that this could be a possibility
0:27.7	that this job could be a reality.
0:30.9	Oh my goodness, Kate.
0:33.2	I look back and I think
0:34.3	if my kids had moved to London at that time and lived where I lived,
0:40.1	they'd have been a gibbering wreck.
0:42.6	I used to wear really sort of unattractive clothing, the most unattractive the better,
0:48.5	a very unsexy sort of, so that I just wouldn't get a costume.
0:52.5	Yeah, really.
0:53.7	I ran Kingscross. I was quite ill when accosted. Yeah, really. A rank in Kings Cross.
0:56.1	I was quite ill when I was at Ryder.
0:58.5	I was sort of partway through and I had this auto-new disease.
1:03.4	And it hit me like a 10-ton truck.
1:05.9	I was in pain.
1:06.9	I wasn't able to be there.
1:08.1	But this is when Pat Myers, who was the administrator,
1:11.4	she said to me, you go home and you get yourself better and we help and get better.
1:17.7	What you're going to do is you're going to come back and you're going to rejoin and start again,
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