Inspirational Women - Bonnie Langford - An Episode from the Cellar
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
To celebrate International Women's Day we've dug deep in our archive to find some truly inspirational women.
Bonnie Langford has been treading the boards and entertaining us since before she was a teenager. Her career is as extraordinary as it is long and she has the anecdotes and stories worthy of someone who's been in as many legendary shows as she has.
In this chat we chart the ups and downs, the successes and the 'lessons' from 50 years in show-business.
We'll be back with a new episode on Thursday and for the first time a BONUS episode on Saturday. We'll tell you more about that on the next podcast.
Until then, 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. |
| 0:07.6 | And today, we're heading back down to the cellar for another episode from the archives. |
| 0:12.4 | And in March, well, it's all about inspirational women. |
| 0:17.3 | Trust me, you're going to be very inspired. I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:25.3 | On this week's episode of white wine question time we go into this marquee and there's naomi camber walks in goddess and she walks towards me |
| 0:31.3 | and she says to me how can i stay in touch with you and i went what i mean we were like |
| 0:36.8 | oh my god she's there she's there i there. Arting Lewis out of my phone for me, because I couldn't reach. And then Darfur muscles in half, Darcy Bustles turning around and going, Oh, look, she's there. I mean, it was just, it was totally surreal. It was one of the most embarrassing moments of my life. I'm fallible. You know, we can all make mistakes. I mean, I remember going to Alina's funeral, and it was a circus. And it seemed so sad and surreal. It just didn't seem real. You know, I mean, the middle of the Blumen Service, they're doing communion, and someone comes up and says, oh, would you sign this for me? I went, no, no, I won't. This is somebody's funeral? This is my friend. |
| 1:15.1 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, the podcast that asks its guest three thought |
| 1:19.1 | provoking questions over three glasses of wine. And my guest this week is a woman who's recently |
| 1:24.2 | celebrated 50 years as a star of the stage and screen, a child star from the age of six, |
| 1:29.8 | when she won the TV talent show Opportunity Knock. She went on to star in Just William, |
| 1:34.1 | Bugsy Malone, played Scarlett O'Hara's daughter and Gone With the Wind, as well as starring |
| 1:38.1 | alongside Angela Lansbury for a year in Gypsy on Broadway. And that was all before she'd started |
| 1:43.5 | secondary school. |
| 1:45.1 | Born and raised in Twickenham, her mother Babette ran a dance school where she and her two |
| 1:49.0 | sisters trained before she went on to study at Arts Ed and then the Italia Conti stage school. |
| 1:54.0 | By the time she left, she was already a huge star and at 16 opened in the original cast for cats |
| 1:59.0 | before swapping the West Denver TV as two doctors' assistants |
| 2:02.5 | in the BBC's Doctor Who. In 2015, she joined another BBC institution, this time playing Carmel in |
| 2:09.3 | EastEnders for three and a half years and last year put many a jaw on the floor, mine included, |
| 2:14.3 | after weeks of leaping around with the agility of a teenager, only to be unmasked |
| 2:18.9 | as the squirrel on the masked dancer. Away from work, she lives in London, where she's about to open |
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