FROM THE CELLAR: Monty Don
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to White Wine Question Time, where on Tuesdays we dust off some of our very best episodes from the cellar.
As it’s the first day of the Chelsea Flower Show, we’re revisiting my conversation from 2023 with horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer Monty Don. We'll hear about how he flunked out of school, lost everything after the collapse of his jewellery business, before finally becoming one of the country's best-loved gardeners.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to white wine question time. The podcast that asks its guests, three thought-provoking |
| 0:04.5 | questions over three glasses of wine. And today we're heading back down to the cellar for another |
| 0:09.8 | episode from the archives. And this week, as it is the first day of the Chelsea Flower Show, |
| 0:14.7 | we're revisiting my conversation from 2023 with the Don of the Garden. |
| 0:21.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.4 | Writer, broadcaster, horticulturalist, Monty Don. |
| 0:26.5 | Or enjoy. |
| 0:33.4 | Coming up on this episode of White Line Question Time. |
| 0:36.0 | I blew my teenage years completely. |
| 0:41.8 | From the age of 13 to 19, I was a lost cause. |
| 0:46.5 | And we did lose everything. |
| 0:51.2 | I mean, really right down to our spare clothes. |
| 0:53.9 | So our furniture, our house, everything. |
| 0:59.3 | And then I, we were in Scotland, in the Hebrides. |
| 1:02.8 | And I rode her out to sea, and the sea was quite calm. |
| 1:05.5 | And I said, will you marry me? |
| 1:07.8 | And she said, I'm not sure. |
| 1:09.6 | I said, well, I'm not rowing back until you do. |
| 1:16.4 | You know, there was one point when Sarah said to me, |
| 1:21.4 | look, I just can't take any longer your moods and your black depression. |
| 1:24.9 | You've got to do something about it because if you don't, I can't live with you. |
| 1:30.0 | Well, it makes you realize, to coin a phrase, shit happens. |
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