Something from the Cellar: A Christmas cracker, with the cast of Grange Hill
White Wine Question Time
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
With Christmas well and truly on the way, we jumped at the chance to revisit a classic Christmas conversation from the WWQT archive - so sit back, pop open some mince pies and let's dive in!
Today we look back at a chat with the legendary cast of Grange Hill, aka Lee MacDonald, Alison Bettles, Mark Baxter and Linda Magistris. They reminisce about their time on the legendary TV show, discuss what life became after the final school bell rang, from navigating fame to forging new careers - all with some festive cheer sprinkled in. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another Tuesday bonus episode of White Wine Question Time where we revisit |
| 0:10.5 | some of our all-time favorite conversations. And with the countdown to Christmas well and |
| 0:15.5 | truly on, we've got just the thing to get you in the spirit today. Today we're serving up a hearty helping of nostalgia as we |
| 0:22.8 | throw it back to our chat with some of the iconic cast members from Grange Hill. Yeah, |
| 0:28.3 | four Christmases ago, I had the joy of sitting down and reuniting some of the most famous |
| 0:33.7 | school kids, the 80s ever knew. We had Lee MacDonald who played Zamo. We had Alison |
| 0:38.9 | Bettles who starred alongside him. We had Mark Baxter and Linda Magistris at Reminis about their time |
| 0:45.0 | on the legendary TV show and to find out what life was like after the final school bell rang for them. |
| 0:51.3 | From navigating the ups and downs of childhood fame to forging new careers, |
| 0:55.3 | this conversation, I promise you, has it all. So grab a mince pie, get comfy, and let's relive |
| 1:01.5 | some classic Grangell moments together. |
| 1:13.0 | A very Merry Christmas. |
| 1:17.1 | Hello and welcome to a super special edition of White Wine Question Time. |
| 1:26.0 | On today's show, as our Christmas gift to you, we are reuniting some of the country's best-known school children from the most famous senior school of the 80s. |
| 1:30.1 | Yes, today's episode is a Grange Hill reunion, |
| 1:33.1 | bringing together four of the show's best-known characters to talk life beyond and then behind the school gates |
| 1:37.0 | of the fictitious school that was the heartbeat of the BBC's 30-year long-running soap |
| 1:43.0 | portraying life in a typical secondary school. |
| 1:45.9 | The show was created by Phil Redmond, who went on to Devise Brookside and Holly Oaks, |
| 1:50.8 | with the late Oscar-winning Anthony Minghella on script editor-duty. |
| 1:55.0 | The show was BAFTA award-winning must-see TV for all children of the 80s. |
| 1:59.8 | It tackled groundbreaking, hard-hitting |
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