LIFE LESSONS: "How to get guests to leave when the night's over!"
The Wittering Whitehalls
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🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
It's awkward, isn't it? You've yawned, you've cleared the plates, but the guests still aren't leaving. How would Mr & Mrs Whitehall deal with someone who just wasn't getting the message?
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by EETV. It's TV with the Ultimate Flex. This podcast is sponsored by British Airways and Tobago. The British Airways Experience is more than a flight. It's about making every single journey as original as you are. |
| 0:25.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:32.7 | Diels, welcome back to the bonus episode. |
| 0:35.4 | Still in sequence, Michael still dressed as Winston Churchill because |
| 0:38.3 | that's how we roll in Whitehall towers thank you helicopter is all happening because of course |
| 0:46.4 | we're recording is that helicopter okay a PPJ oh i think he's managing just fine yep he's going to cut right |
| 0:53.3 | through the intro to the episode there we go he's managing just fine. Yep, he's going to cut right through the intro to the episode. |
| 0:55.3 | There we go. He's going. So big news, Diels, since we last spoke, I have done an episode of |
| 1:02.7 | The Weekest Link. Oh, I will not be able to tell you how I got on because that is classified |
| 1:09.7 | information until it goes out in the autumn |
| 1:12.4 | sometime. But I did go all the way to Glasgow to record an episode of The Weakest Link. And |
| 1:20.1 | I was marooned there because I had to get a train back the following day with Gareth Malone. |
| 1:27.7 | Do you know who Gareth Malone is, Michael Whitehall? Gareth Malone. Do you know? He was a singer, wasn't he? He was a choir man. P.P.J., do you know Garth Malone? I'm familiar with Garth Malone? Yes. Well, he and I found... Very, very nice young man. Very sweet singer. Yep. |
| 1:44.5 | And very good with choirs and very good at doing sort of charities. |
| 1:47.4 | Then he was a sort of choir master. |
| 1:49.0 | Yes. |
| 1:50.2 | And had some... |
| 1:51.1 | And did a lot with the military wives, choir, etc. |
| 1:53.8 | He's a very... |
| 1:54.5 | He's basically a good egg. |
| 1:56.4 | Yes, I would say. |
| 1:57.3 | So he was my dinner date because we were the only two left marooned in Glasgow in a hotel, |
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