Sally Lindsay on knowing your worth, rewriting the script, and trusting your gut
White Wine Question Time
Stak
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re joined by one of the most hardworking and versatile talents in British television – she’s an actor, writer, and producer, it’s the brilliant Sally Lindsay!
In this conversation, Sally opens up about what it really takes to survive and thrive in a changing industry. From her early breakout roles to creating, writing, producing and starring in her hit Channel 5 drama The Madame Blanc Mysteries, she reflects on the setbacks, moments of self-doubt, and fierce determination that have shaped her path. She also shares why she finally stopped waiting for permission, how she built her own production company from the ground up, and why midlife isn’t a slowdown – it’s a launchpad.
Sally's blazing through midlife like it’s a new series waiting to be written, and she’s nailing every episode! Whether she’s hunting down antiques or cleverly crafting TV murders, she proves that there is power in carving your own path with warmth, wit, and unstoppable drive.
You can stream The Madame Blanc Mysteries on My5 now. You can also listen back to Sally’s first appearance on White Wine Question Time right here.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of White Wine Question Time. |
| 0:07.0 | And I think that's what I would say to anyone who's starting, you know, wants to sit down and write something. |
| 0:15.0 | If you can see the world in your head, you can go anywhere with it. |
| 0:18.0 | And it can be forever, really. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm not one of these who goes right quick while in my head. |
| 0:23.6 | No, I'll go it until they grasp, you know, take it on me cold, dead hands. |
| 0:28.6 | I made decisions over Scott and Bailey I never would have done |
| 0:33.6 | and I would make decisions, you know, I would let people walk all over me a little bit, |
| 0:40.3 | and I didn't mean to, and I don't think they meant to either. |
| 0:43.9 | It was just business, but I wouldn't have let that happen now. |
| 0:48.7 | The way the media, you know, sort of say, and now she's unrecognisable. |
| 0:55.4 | And you go, yeah. |
| 0:56.4 | Translated. She looks old. They look old. |
| 0:59.7 | Or older. Of course she does. |
| 1:01.8 | Of course you do. She's older, you dick. |
| 1:03.7 | What's the, yeah, what's the alternative, death? |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.3 | You know, so you think, well, do you want a dead then? |
| 1:08.2 | Like, like, you know, snow White in a coffin, what the fuck? |
| 1:12.4 | If you could make a phone call to yourself at any point in your life, past, present or future, when would you call yourself? |
| 1:19.7 | And what would you say? |
| 1:23.2 | Oh, I'd call. I think I'd call my 22-year-old self. And I'd call back and I'd go, I'd call. I think I'd call my 22-year-old self. |
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