NEW EPISODE: Actor Jason Watkins on RADA, relationships and reality TV
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to White Wine Question Time
Our guest today is the brilliant actor Jason Watkins, and this is a great conversation that starts with his incredible ancestry, and takes in his time studying at RADA, what he's learned about relationships and his reflections on the loss of his daughter to Sepsis. We promised Jason that in the notes for this episode we'd post links to the UK Sepsis Trust and the NHS so please take two minutes to familiarise yourselves with the symptoms - it isn't an exaggeration to say that reading these might help to save a life.
Thanks to Jason for joining us, I hope you enjoy the chat,
Cheers
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, the podcast that asks his guest, |
| 0:05.9 | rethought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. |
| 0:09.4 | And my guest today is one of Britain's most quietly compelling screen actors, |
| 0:13.9 | a BAFTA award-winning star of stage, film and television, |
| 0:17.7 | who's been a regular on our screens for just shy of 40 years now. He was born to a working-class family in the Midlands and as a teenager could be found playing football for the Wrexham youth team. |
| 0:27.6 | But he changed tact and went on to study at Rada, establishing himself as a stage actor, |
| 0:32.6 | joining the National Theatre Company, before going on to pick up roles in shows like EastEnders and Soldier |
| 0:38.3 | Since then, he's become best known for appearing in some of TV's biggest hits, including Line of Duty, The Crown, and W1A. |
| 0:47.1 | And in the last 12 months alone, you'll have found him on stage in The Seagull alongside Kate Blanchette, on our small screens with Channel 4's brilliant |
| 0:55.6 | dirty business, and on the big screen in Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme. Away from work, |
| 1:01.7 | he lives with his wife, Clara, and their two children. And they've both spoken openly about |
| 1:06.6 | their unimaginable loss, the death of their daughter Maud when she was just two years old |
| 1:11.3 | from undiagnosed sepsis back in 2011 and how that experience has reshept their lives, |
| 1:17.7 | his work and their marriage. And together with Clara, he's become, well, a staunch advocate |
| 1:23.0 | for greater awareness around undiagnosed sepsis and explored all of this in a heart-wrenching documentary |
| 1:29.7 | which you can find right now on ITVX. It's heartbreaking stuff and there is so much that I'm |
| 1:35.4 | looking forward to discussing with him. So let's dial him in, shall we? It's the wonderful |
| 1:40.0 | Jason Watkins. For the purposes of putting this interview together, wow, I learnt some stuff about you. |
| 1:48.9 | You've got some serious family heritage, haven't you? |
| 1:52.1 | Related to Jane Austen? |
| 1:54.2 | Yeah, I know. |
| 1:55.2 | Yeah, I am related to Jane Austen. |
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