Something from the Cellar: Poet Donna Ashworth
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Each week, in addition to a brand new episode, we delve into our back catalogue to serve up a vintage episode from our cellar.
All this month we're choosing from our excellent selection of authors - a mini literature festival if you will.
Today it's Donna Ashworth - a Scottish poet who shot to stardom during the COVID-19 pandemic and has since been credited with revitalising a national interest in poetry.
So as the weather takes a turn for the worse why not snuggle in and treat yourself to 45 minutes of something inspiring.
I hope you enjoy this episode - and we'll see you back here for a brand new interview next time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, the podcast that asks its guest three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. |
| 0:10.8 | And today we're heading back down to the cellar for another episode from our archive. |
| 0:14.8 | This one makes up another part of our mini literature festival that we're holding this month, |
| 0:18.8 | featuring another best-selling author. |
| 0:22.3 | When I first saw her words in an Instagram post as we were plunged into the first lockdown, |
| 0:27.6 | her poem, History will remember when the world stopped, seemed to say and capture everything I was |
| 0:33.1 | feeling and yet struggling to articulate. And I wasn't the only one. The post went viral and turned writing and poetry |
| 0:40.4 | from a hobby into a career as a published author for her. |
| 0:44.5 | During lockdown, having just moved back to Scotland |
| 0:46.4 | where she was born and raised with her husband, Robert, |
| 0:48.6 | and their two teenage sons, |
| 0:50.4 | they found themselves unemployed their business forced to shut. |
| 0:53.5 | And she started to share her thoughts |
| 0:54.9 | and angst and worries in a blog that she's established online called Pass It On Ladies, |
| 0:59.9 | where her ability to always find the right words for every manner of difficult, emotional situation |
| 1:05.0 | saw her online community grow to more than one million followers. And it was with their |
| 1:09.7 | encouragement and support that |
| 1:11.3 | she self-published three books of her work before becoming the subject of a bidding war. |
| 1:15.8 | Her words have been shared by the likes of Pink, Tony Collette, James Corden, Lisa Snowden, |
| 1:20.7 | Chloe Kardashian and Davina McCourt because, well, she speaks for so many of us with her thoughtful |
| 1:25.9 | prose. But now it's time for her to speak for |
| 1:28.3 | herself i'm really excited for you to discover her and to get to know the woman behind the poetry |
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