Inspiration from the Cellar: Sir Tim Peake
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
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🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Ready to feel inspired?
All this month we're digging into our archive of almost 500 episodes to bring you the MOST inspirational guests - and well, it doesn't come more inspirational than this. If you've ever looked up to the stars and wondered about the enormity of space... well today's White Wine Question Time guest has done more than just dream. He's been there.
Sir Tim Peake had to undertake the equivalent of two degrees as part of his training to go to the International Space Station - including being fluent in Russian. His desire to travel into space served as his motivation, also drawing on his military training and reserves.
His perspective on life has changed, and it serves as a timely reminder that we are all inhabitants of Earth - whatever our race, religion or politics - we all call this third rock from the sun 'home'
Enjoy this episode from our archive and we'll be back on Thursday with something brand new.
Cheers!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, the podcast that asks its guests, three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. |
| 0:12.0 | And today we're heading back down to the cellar for another episode from the archives. |
| 0:16.6 | Throughout January, we're hearing from some of our most inspirational previous guests. |
| 0:22.1 | And today, well, this man certainly fits that bill and then some. |
| 0:25.4 | He has reserved his place in our history books back in 2015 when he became the first Brit ever to walk in space. |
| 0:32.5 | He's since gone on to become a celebrated author and public speaker. |
| 0:36.5 | And not to mention, a night of the realm. |
| 0:38.8 | So come with me as we head back to 2024 to hear from Sir Tim Peake. |
| 0:46.2 | As I look at you now, Tim Peake, I could be speaking to you light years away. |
| 0:50.7 | You've got the full headset. |
| 0:52.4 | You either look like you work in a McDonald's drive-thru or a spacecraft. Hopefully a spacecraft. Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? In this precarious |
| 1:05.5 | business of yours. Thank you so much for joining me. How are you? I'm good, thanks, Kate. No, it's great to join you. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:13.6 | Do you get as excited about talking to astronauts as say I do? |
| 1:17.6 | I do, absolutely, because you're always going to learn something new. |
| 1:22.6 | And everybody's mission, everyone's got a story to tell. |
| 1:26.6 | Everyone's missions had, you know, things |
| 1:28.9 | that have gone wrong or things that have been very funny. And I love, you know, digging down as to |
| 1:34.8 | what did you do when this happened and how did you solve it? And more often than not, you know, |
| 1:40.4 | you think that the solutions are going to be very high-tech, very specific, and then you |
| 1:45.5 | realize that actually we're all kind of making it up as we go along. Even with NASA, I mean, |
| 1:51.7 | my friend Luca Parmatano, he had a situation with his helmet filling with water, which is never |
| 1:58.0 | good. You know, you don't expect to go into space and to drown inside the space helmet. |
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