Something from the Cellar: Reverend Richard Coles
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
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🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
As we ramp up our festive preparations we've dug around in the cellar to find some episodes that just feel right for this time of year - over the next few weeks you can expect some Panto shenanigans (oh yes you can!), some Strictly magic and THE king of Christmas music. First up - it's one of the signs that it's nearly Christmas... I'm A Celebrity on the TV! We're taking you back to last year - when Reverend Richard Coles won the nation's heart in the Australian jungle.
If your tree's not up already - why not get yourself in the festive mood and listen to this sermon - from the pop star turned vicar - Reverend Richard Coles.
Cheers
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time, the podcast that asked its guests, three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. |
| 0:11.3 | 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 going to be spending this month in the company of some brilliantly festive guests. |
| 0:21.5 | And first up, we're going to be hearing from one of the most high-profile gay clergymen in the world. |
| 0:27.1 | A man who retired in 2022, after 22 years in the job, having previously been both a monk and a number one pop star. |
| 0:35.4 | He's also a master broadcaster and a number one best-selling author |
| 0:39.2 | with a hugely warm ability to distill the most complicated of conversations, |
| 0:44.1 | no matter what the subject. |
| 0:46.0 | For 12 years, millions of us have tuned into his measured soothing tones |
| 0:50.5 | on Radio 4's morning show Saturday live until his departure in |
| 0:54.6 | 2023 and most recently he can be heard on his excellent podcast the rabbit hole |
| 0:59.9 | detectives alongside Earl Spencer and the historian Dr Kat Jarman so here it is my |
| 1:05.9 | conversation from 2023 well with my favorite vicar don't tell Kate Bodley, I said that. It's Richard Coults. |
| 1:16.5 | Hello, Kate. How are you? I'm really well, thank you. Can I get it all right there, Richard? |
| 1:22.5 | Well, you've got most of it right. I mean, I've said my CV sounds so unlikely. I can't remember |
| 1:26.7 | how much of it is fact |
| 1:27.7 | and how much is fiction myself now. If it landed on my desk, I would assume it the work of a |
| 1:32.4 | fantasist. Do you know, that's a really good point. But how brilliant that your CV is, would |
| 1:42.8 | even be a stretch in the world of fiction? |
| 1:45.9 | I know, it seems, I mean, of course, your life as you live it, it's just your life, isn't it? |
| 1:50.0 | You don't really think about it. It's just what happened next, I guess. |
| 1:53.1 | But if you're, if you're called upon to sort of explain it or defend it, |
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