Something from the Cellar: Julian Clary
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Is it December already? What happened to 2025?
IT'S BEHIND YOU!!!!
Welcome to panto season on White Wine Question Time.
This month we're helping you get into the festive spirit with some episodes that ooze Christmas. Today we're in full panto mode to bring you a classic conversation with Julian Clary.
Julian has bought his outrageous comedy to our stages and screens for the past four decades and on the eve of his new panto at the London Palladium we thought it would be a good idea to remind ourselves of why he's become an absolute national treasure.
We hope you enjoy it.
Cheers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to white wine question time. |
| 0:06.3 | The podcast that asked its guests, three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. |
| 0:10.9 | And today we're heading back down to the cellar for another episode from the archives. |
| 0:15.3 | And because it's December, we're spending this month in the company of some truly fabulously festive guests. |
| 0:21.2 | So my guest today, as well as being a Panto dame, is also one of the UK's greatest comedians. |
| 0:28.0 | He's carefully crafted, smutty innuendo has been making us laugh for over 40 years now. |
| 0:33.5 | As a team, he saw one of his older sisters perform as a showgirl at the world-famous Lido Club in Paris, |
| 0:39.7 | which inspired him to develop his drag persona, Gillian Pieface, |
| 0:44.2 | and throw himself into the London comedy circuit. |
| 0:46.4 | Since then, he's taken his stand-up shows on tour. |
| 0:49.1 | He's had his own TV shows, appeared on numerous panel shows, |
| 0:51.9 | one celebrity big brother, trot the boards, in an Olivier award-winning production of Cabaret, |
| 0:57.4 | and of course has become a staple in the Panto world. |
| 1:01.3 | He's also gained more jewels in his crown from his accomplishments in the publishing world, |
| 1:06.1 | having written four novels now and a collection of children's books, |
| 1:09.3 | and a Sunday Times best-selling memoir. |
| 1:12.3 | So come with me as we head back to 2024 just ahead of his London Palladium Panto |
| 1:17.9 | performance with Jane MacDonald. |
| 1:20.5 | It's Julian Clary. |
| 1:26.1 | How are you? |
| 1:27.2 | It's been a while since I got to see that beautiful face of yours. Are you good? |
| 1:32.0 | I am good. I've just finished a tour last Friday. So I've got that warm, satisfied glow. I'm quite tired, but had such a lovely time and, you know, how mutually beneficial it can be making people laugh |
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