Robert Bathurst on raunchy Soho adventures, dying on stage, and having the courage of your convictions
White Wine Question Time
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🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Joining us today is an esteemed actor who you’ll know from the likes of Downton Abbey, Cold Feet, Toast of London and countless stage shows across the country: it’s Robert Bathurst!
He joins us the morning after another night spent inhabiting the troubled but intriguing life of journalist Jeffrey Bernard as part of his latest run of the one-man play Jeffrey Bernard is unwell. He chats about that, some of the most haunting - and hilarious - times he’s died on stage and having the confidence to decline huge professional offers not truly suited to him. Even if it meant lying to Esther Rantzen!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of White Line Question Time. |
| 0:08.0 | The poodles were so late that we went on at two and that was the point when the jam was supposed to be on. |
| 0:12.8 | So everybody coming into the theatre, we're expecting to see the jam. |
| 0:15.2 | They saw these punces, |
| 0:16.8 | they're gonna jam coming on to it. |
| 0:19.6 | To entertain that we got howled off. From downtown when I left Lady Edith at the altar, |
| 0:27.0 | I had some vicar came up to me and said, |
| 0:31.0 | how could you have done that you know what and I thought you know |
| 0:34.8 | not me they always say at the end of the nobittery they he leaves three |
| 0:40.8 | children by his first marriage or whatever and his in that one as |
| 0:44.0 | penned by him he said he leaves two unwritten books and the circle of |
| 0:48.3 | detached acquaintances. Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, the podcast that asks its guests three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of |
| 1:03.8 | wine and my guess this week is a star of stage and screen who went from life as an |
| 1:08.2 | always-in-work jobbing actor to a household name in the late 90s after his brilliant portrayal of |
| 1:14.5 | Hatless David Marston in the award-winning comedy drama Cold Feet. Born in |
| 1:19.5 | Ghana in 1957 where his father was working as a management consultant. The family moved to |
| 1:24.8 | Ireland when he was two and it was there he attended boarding school before moving to |
| 1:28.8 | school in Sussex and then onto Cambridge where he studied law which is where he became part of their world famous student comedy troop footlights, working alongside the likes of Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Jimmy Marville. |
| 1:43.0 | After graduating, he was qualified to work as a barrister, but instead went on tour with |
| 1:47.5 | footlights for a year in Australia and upon his return, never practiced law. |
| 1:51.6 | Instead, he started working as a stage actor going on to make his |
| 1:54.9 | television debut in the never broadcast pilot episode of Blackadder. In his 20s, |
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