Lucy Beaumont on Hull, comedy inheritance and life after Traitors
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode we're chatting to one of the most instantly recognisable voices in British comedy. Lucy Beaumont was raised by her mother – the playwright Gill Adams in Hull, she went to school and University in the city and got her first acting jobs at the Hull Truck Theatre. Her comedy breakthrough was almost accidental – her first stand-up gigs were an attempt to conquer her stage fright – she entered the ‘So You Think You’re Funny’ Competition and went on to reach the final.
Even after she left Hull – the city features heavily in her work – she made three series of the radio sitcom To Hull & Back, and co-wrote the Channel 4 comedy ‘Hullraisers’
She’s become a regular on our screens on comedy shows like Live at the Apollo, Would I Lie to You? QI, Taskmaster, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and the Bafta-nominated mockumentary ‘Meet the Richardson’s’ - an exaggerated version of her marriage to Jon Richardson.
Last year millions watched Lucy get murdered in a Scottish Castle on Celebrity Traitors and she’s currently appearing alongside Johnny Vegas, Lesley Joseph, Shobna Gulati and a cameo from Sir Tom Courtenay in a sell-out 40th Anniversary revival of Jim Cartwright’s play ‘Road’ about 80s life in a Northern Town which has received rave reviews.
Her next stand-up tour ‘Bad at Quiz Shows, Good with Weirdos’ will be her biggest yet – and it’s fair to say that right now she’s at the top of her game. Her material has always been autobiographical – she’s shared her stories of Hull, motherhood, and marriage – so I’m looking forward to finding out what this next chapter holds…
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of White Wine Question Time. |
| 0:06.1 | He used to say to my mum, why don't you just be a cleaner or why don't you just work in a shop? |
| 0:11.5 | And she was like, I've got this talent, you know, and now going, my God, all the things I was around, all those read-throughs and all those plays I came to see. |
| 0:22.2 | What about the people that helped you to bring your voice to life, like Maureen? |
| 0:26.8 | I sent her the script and sent her this long, long email, like it was almost a book of what she |
| 0:32.5 | meant to me and she just wrote that one line saying, if you make it better, I'll do it. |
| 0:38.8 | Did she really? |
| 0:40.1 | Yeah, and I stayed up all that all night and made it better |
| 0:42.8 | and sent it back to her and she was like, right, I'll do it, it's better now. |
| 0:46.5 | I can remember more than one occasion the compere saying to the audience, |
| 0:50.9 | because I was playing quite rough places, |
| 0:52.9 | I'm sorry we've got a woman on next, |
| 0:54.8 | but can you just give her a chance? |
| 0:59.1 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, |
| 1:01.6 | the podcast that asked its guests three thought-provoking questions |
| 1:04.2 | over three glasses of wine. |
| 1:06.2 | And my guest today is one of the most instantly recognisable voices |
| 1:09.8 | in British comedy. |
| 1:11.1 | She was raised by her mother, the playwright Jill Adams, in Hull, |
| 1:14.1 | where she went to school and then university, |
| 1:16.0 | and she landed her first acting work at the Hull Truck Theatre. |
| 1:19.7 | Her comedy breakthrough was, in fact, almost accidental. |
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