Radio 1's Matt Edmondson: Embracing ADHD, Creativity, and Resilience
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of White Wine Question Time Radio 1's Matt Edmondson shares his journey from a young magic enthusiast to a successful broadcaster and board game creator. He discusses living with ADHD and cyclothymia, the challenges and gifts they bring, and how these conditions have shaped his career and personal life. Matt also opens up about his relationship with money, his creative ventures, and the importance of empathy and understanding in overcoming personal struggles.
CONTENT WARNING: Please note this episode does contain some frank discussion of depression and suicide.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of White Wine Question Time. |
| 0:06.0 | I was obsessed with CBBC as a kid, obsessed. |
| 0:09.3 | Like, you know, I wrote to all the presenters, I collected autograph cards. |
| 0:13.2 | And so from probably about 14, I was like, cool, that's what I'm going to do. |
| 0:18.9 | I think my entire life really, I'd had these undulating phases of being really up, really hyper, maybe productive is the word, but feeling pretty great. |
| 0:29.6 | But then on the other side of that, having these periods of depression, and they were really bad. |
| 0:34.7 | I used like my last 150 quid to buy some decks of cards and set up this little |
| 0:42.1 | stall. And I never did one Christmas there. And I made so much money. I was able to take |
| 0:48.6 | the next six months off completely. Hello and welcome to White Wine question time. The podcast had asked its guests three |
| 0:58.0 | thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. Although not today, my guest is |
| 1:03.2 | T-Total. He is a broadcaster with a very quick wit, a wonderfully curious mind, and an uncanny |
| 1:09.9 | ability to make even the most chaotic conversation feel joyful. |
| 1:14.3 | But his story started long before radio studios and red carpets. |
| 1:18.7 | Growing up in Portsmouth, in a rather creative, busy household, he discovered his entrepreneurial streak at the age of 14. |
| 1:26.7 | He convinced the manager of a local party shop |
| 1:29.4 | to let him demo and sell magic tricks for commission and he absolutely cleaned up. So when his first |
| 1:36.2 | big TV break on CBBC suddenly vanished, he didn't spiral. He set up a stall in Greenwich |
| 1:42.1 | markets, selling trick decks and cards and magic tricks, earning |
| 1:45.9 | enough money in a weekend to keep himself going |
| 1:47.9 | for a month. From there came |
| 1:49.9 | entertainment journalism, interviewing everyone |
| 1:52.0 | from Sir Alan Sugar to Flowrider. |
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