FROM THE CELLAR: Delta Goodrem
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Welcome to White Wine Question Time, where on Tuesdays we dust off some of our very best episodes from the cellar.
Following her recent Eurovision success, and the announcement of her first album in 5 years, we're revisiting my conversation with singer, songwriter, and actress Delta Goodrem from 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, where today we're heading back down to the cellar |
| 0:03.8 | for another classic episode from our archive. So what have I selected for your delictation |
| 0:09.6 | today? Well, a couple of weeks ago, she wowed at the Eurovision representing Australia. |
| 0:15.5 | And doing considerably better, it has to say, than the UK Act finishing fourth. Well done. |
| 0:22.5 | I had a conversation with her back in 2021 where we talked about her teenage battle with cancer, a year of speech therapy at the |
| 0:28.3 | start of which she was unable to sing, and we talked about her friendship with Elton John. |
| 0:33.0 | What Delta Goodrum hasn't been through isn't worth discussing. What an extraordinary life. What an |
| 0:38.9 | extraordinary career. And five years on, she's just released a brand new album and she deserves |
| 0:44.0 | this next chapter in her career. I love her. So let's give us some flowers, shall we? And say |
| 0:49.6 | giddh. It's London calling Australia Delta Goodrum. |
| 1:03.9 | Hello and welcome to white wine question time, the podcast that asks its guests, three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. |
| 1:07.6 | Today's guest is currently sat on the other side of the world in Australia as the |
| 1:11.8 | sun goes down there, whilst I'm on my fourth coffee of the morning here in London just having |
| 1:16.7 | had breakfast. So no wine for me, I'm not an animal. But as you're about to hear, there is plenty |
| 1:22.2 | to raise our proverbial glasses too. My guest started out as a child model and actor and as a teenager used her earnings to finance a demo that got assigned to Sony Records when she was 15. At 17, she came to fame as Nina in Neighbors, a standout musical student at Erinsborough High. And upon leaving the show, launched her debut solo album, which went to number one for 29 weeks in Australia, |
| 1:46.6 | and saw her break the charts here in the UK too. |
| 1:49.2 | Just as she was about to begin work on her follow-up album, |
| 1:52.1 | at the age of 18, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma |
| 1:55.5 | and successfully underwent chemotherapy and radiation therapy. |
| 1:59.1 | In remission, she got back to work and nine |
| 2:01.9 | number one singles and four number one albums in Australia, sellout tours and a nine-year run |
| 2:06.9 | as a coach on Australia's The Voice followed. Then in 2018, she was stopped in her tracks again |
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