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White Wine Question Time

Tracy-Ann Oberman

White Wine Question Time

Stak

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🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Joining Kate this week is radio, theatre and television actress & star of It's A Sin; Tracy-Ann Oberman. Best known for her work in TV shows such as EastEnders, Friday Night Dinner and now Channel 4's brand new hit show. The series follows a group of friends, mostly in their late teens and early twenties, who move to London in 1981 and have their lives turned upside down by HIV & Aids, spanning a decade until 1991. In this episode, Tracy-Ann touches upon her battles on social media, making it her mission to cut out all forms of prejudice, particularly towards the Jewish communities such as the one she is so proud to be a part of. Tune in for a really fascinating listen with an incredible lady.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to White Wine Question Time. How are you? Congratulations. We've made

0:11.2

it through January. We're tiptoeing our way into February now. Feels good, doesn't it?

0:16.6

And speaking of feel good, I cannot wait for you to get your ears around my guest this

0:20.7

week. She's an actress, a writer, narrator, an activist who starred in Doctor Who. After

0:25.9

life, EastEnders, yes. She was Chrissy Watts, who famously bludgeoned to death dirty

0:30.2

den. She's been in Friday night dinner as Antivale, and most recently, in Russell T. Davis's

0:35.9

achingly brilliant It's Is In. With more than 600 radio plays to her credit and a CV that

0:41.1

includes four years with the RSC, she came to public prominence, playing opposite Kenneth

0:46.0

Brano in Edmund at the National Theatre. In fact, she worked with Kenneth Brano again recently.

0:51.4

When he starred in one of the many plays, she's written for Radio 4. This one's called

0:55.3

That Dinner of 67, which tells the story behind the making of who's coming to dinner.

1:00.1

I filmed that broken you ground, telling that the story of interracial love, which originally

1:05.3

starred Sidney Wattier, Spencer Tracy, and Catherine Hepburn. London-born and bred, she still

1:11.0

lives in the capital with her husband Rob, and their teenage daughter Anushka. And in the

1:14.7

last 18 months, has been incredibly vocal, campaigning and speaking out against anti-semitism,

1:21.3

which you can hear more about on her brilliant podcast, Trolled, which deals with Trolling,

1:26.1

not only the Trolling that she's received, but includes guests like Gary Linnaker, for

1:30.4

example, coming on and sharing their own experiences of being Trolled and standing up to online

1:35.7

bullying. I last saw her in that early December when we flew to Ireland together to work just

1:40.9

before Tier 4 hit. It felt like we were going off on our holidays. We were giddy, so let's

1:46.9

dial her up. I can't wait to share an hour with you and her. It's Tracy Ann Oberman.

1:58.9

Oh, my holiday buddy. It's so lovely to see you, Kate, because it was like a holiday,

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