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WEEKEND WINE QUESTION TIME with Maisie Adam

White Wine Question Time

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Weekend Wine Question Time, where on Saturdays we bring you a bonus question with our latest guest. This week it's comedian and podcaster Maisie Adam.


Keep an eye on our Instagram page @whitewine_questiontime for upcoming guest announcements including Ben Shepherd, Ben Elton and Ellie Simmonds - if you have a question you'd like to ask our guests, email us on hello@whitewinepod.com


Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the very best archive episodes from the cellar every Tuesday, brand new episodes every Thursday, and our bonus episodes of Weekend White Wine Question Time every Saturday.


Cheers!


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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to white wine question time.

0:04.5

The podcast that asks its guest three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine.

0:09.0

If you missed our episode on Thursday with Maisie Adam, then go back and catch up or just dive in right now because here she is answering a third thought-provoking question.

0:19.1

A more considered fashion as we step into the weekend.

0:21.8

So grab yourself a drink and sit back to enjoy the comedian, actress, author, podcaster and presenter,

0:27.9

Maisie Adam, Part 2.

0:35.6

For my next question, it's a simple one really.

0:38.4

There is a well-known phrase that from great tragedy comes great comedy.

0:44.6

When and how has that been true for you?

0:48.9

I think, like, someone I was so close with, like so, so close with was my nana, my dad's mum,

0:57.7

and she, like, we had the same birthday and she was just amazing, like, had such a great

1:03.4

sense of humour that I'm sure formed kind of how, how I've ended up in this, in this industry

1:09.6

and, and shaping that

1:11.8

comedic voice she had a really good northern sense of humour like really really

1:16.6

cheeky and really naughty and then um and also like we grew up on the same street we lived at

1:22.8

number 97 and she lived over the road from us um my her husband my my grandpa passed away when I was only like 12, 13.

1:30.8

So she was on her own over the road for ages and she'd come over.

1:34.9

She basically sort of had an open door policy with us and it was really lovely.

1:39.9

And then she got dementia and it was really, really tough because if you've ever loved anybody who's got dementia, it's so hard because it takes everything from within and it takes everything about that person. but but what was nice so she she had it she probably had it for the last 15 years of her life

2:01.7

particularly the last five years of her life,

2:01.7

particularly the last five kind of at its worst level.

2:05.6

And she, she went from living in over the road to kind of living in a little flat with

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