Episode 28: Wine Special with Knackered Mother Helen McGinn

The Scummy Mummies Podcast

Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn

Kids & Family, Self-improvement, Parenting, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

WINE TIME! As we all drinking a few more glasses of wine than usual, we thought we would re-release this classic podcast with wine expert Helen McGinn. Helen now features regularly on the BBC's Saturday Kitchen and her book The Knackered Mother's Wine Guide: Because Life's too Short to Drink Bad Wine is now available.

Ever wondered what wine goes with fish fingers? Is it really worth spending a tenner instead of a fiver? And what's the best way to avoid hangovers? We answer all these questions and more with the help of wine expert Helen McGinn.

She tells us all about her award-winning blog and best-selling book, The Knackered Mother's Wine Club. We find out why Ribena is technically more expensive than booze, and discuss Nigella's recipe for wine soup. Plus Helen M reveals what goes on behind the scenes at The Alan Titchmarsh Show (spoiler: Atomic Kitten like a drink.)

We explain why Prosecco is the Helen Thorn of wines and she tells us about her goon bag. Ellie outlines her idea for a breastmilk-themed drinking game and we test Helen M on her wine label knowledge with an inevitably stupid quiz.

Visit Helen McGinn's blog to sign up for her regular emails. Her book comes highly recommended and you can also followed her on Twitter: @knackeredmutha.

We're on Twitter too: @scummymummies. We love getting reviews on iTunes and reading your Scummy Mummy Confessions - please send in via Facebook or email [email protected].

Keep an eye on scummymummies.com for live show details. Thanks for listening!

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0:41.0	So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.
0:46.5	Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply. Check the Uber app. This is the Scummy Mummies Hotcom. Hello and I'm Helen Thorne. And we're recording today live from Camp Festival which is exciting.
1:14.2	Would you like to describe our surroundings?
1:15.8	We're in we're in a guardian tent full of oversized bunting and we smell quite bad.
1:21.0	Yeah, yeah, but our lovely guest smells wonderful if a bit whining.
1:25.9	I mean that without an H. It gives me great pleasure to introduce Helen
1:32.1	again, hello Helen Helen hello you don't
1:34.3	smell that bad by the way oh she's so kind
1:37.6	that's me Helen thought smells a bit caught
1:40.3	take her back. Yeah.
1:43.0	So Helen, you are the author of one of our favorite books ever, the Nackard Mother's Wine Club guide.
1:49.0	Is that have I got it right?
1:50.0	Yeah, you have?
1:51.0	Nackard Mother's Wine Club.
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