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Tea With Twiggy

Tea With Twiggy

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Welcome to Tea With Twiggy! This podcast was started at a time where people around the world connected and became closer with friends and family even though they could not physically meet. The same is true of Dame Twiggy who reconnected with her friends for a cup of tea and a chat! "Tea with Twiggy" is an intimate weekly chat with Twiggy and special guests including Joanna Lumley, Lynda La Plante, Elaine Paige, Gyles Brandreth, Christopher Biggins, and David Threlfall, Robert Lindsay, Myleene Klass and more! So please join Twiggy every week as she sits down for a nice cuppa with some of her closest friends. Subscribe now in Apple Podcasts to get every episode as it is released. The music for the podcast is Twiggy's version of "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks and can be found on Apple Music at this link https://music.apple.com/gb/album/romantically-yours/693460953Stripped Media Relazioni Scienze sociali
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  • #105 - Mark Kermode

    #105 - Mark Kermode
    Oct 15 2026
    Mark Kermode has spent more than thirty years telling Britain which films are worth seeing. Here he tells Twiggy how he got the job in the first place: by bluffing, busking and refusing to go away. The two of them last met on stage at the BFI IMAX, where Twiggy was the final guest on Mark's monthly live show. He asked her to pick an iconic movie scene. She asked if she could pick a director instead, and chose Ken Russell, the man who cast her in The Boy Friend and the man Mark came to know as a friend. In this episode: A cinema-mad childhood: Mark grew up in Barnet, at the very end of the Northern line, and decided he wanted to live in the cinema after his mum took him to Krakatoa, East of Java (a film now famous for the fact that Krakatoa is west of Java). Too young to get into Planet of the Apes on his own, he would wait outside for a grown-up to take him in. Twiggy trumps him with her mum, who walked into every film halfway through, watched the B picture, and then stayed to see how the story began. School, rejection and Manchester: a council-funded place at Haberdashers', five university rejections, and a place at Manchester through clearing. He stayed on for a PhD he says he finished through persistence rather than brains, and lived in the Hulme Crescents, where burglars stole the safety door the council had fitted after the last burglary. Twiggy, meanwhile, loved school and was only sorry to leave it when 1966 happened. Bluffing in: how Mark talked his way into an interview at Time Out with an appointment that did not exist, and a first radio review so shaky that his mum's only comment was that the signal was very clear. Radio and Simon Mayo: from Radio 5 and Danny Baker to Radio 1, where Simon Mayo needed a film critic. Mark has been working with Simon since the early nineties, almost as long as he has been with his wife, Linda. The bands: busking skiffle in Manchester with the Railtown Bottlers, his band the Dodge Brothers, and the day Nanci Griffith joined in on backing vocals at a soundcheck without having met anyone. Twiggy tops it with the night Carly Simon, who her daughter Carly is named after, came to a New Jersey studio to sing backing vocals on a song of Twiggy's that has never been released. Ken Russell: how Mark met him, the promise he made to track down the missing scenes from The Devils, and how he kept it. Twiggy on the mentor who fought for a year to cast her in The Boy Friend, and the evenings at his house learning about Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and classical music. The people who believed in them, Sadie Frost's documentary about Twiggy's life, and the director who walked up to Mark at the BFI and demanded he repeat his review to his face. LINKS Twiggy's official website: https://theofficialtwiggy.com Every episode of Tea With Twiggy: https://theofficialtwiggy.com/podcast The music for the podcast is Twiggy's version of Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks and can be found on Apple Music here: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/romantically-yours/693460953 If you have enjoyed listening to Tea With Twiggy, please take a moment to give us a five star rating on Apple Podcasts. It really helps other people find the show. And if you have not already, please subscribe so the next episode arrives automatically. A Stripped Media production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    56 min
  • #104 - Dame Meera Syal

    #104 - Dame Meera Syal
    Sep 9 2026
    Twiggy is back, and she has brought a Dame with her. After more than a year away, Twiggy explains where she went: Sadie Frost's documentary about her life took her round Britain and Europe from film festival to film festival for most of last year. The nice twist is that the film only exists because of this podcast. Twiggy had Sadie on to talk about her Mary Quant film, asked what she wanted to make next, and Sadie said she was after someone with a connection to the sixties. The answer was sitting across the table. Her first guest back is the writer, actor, comedian and singer Dame Meera Syal, who Twiggy has known since Meera played Leigh Lawson's secretary in Kinsey at the start of the nineties. What follows is two women comparing notes on the same unlikely life. Neither looked like anybody already doing the job. Neither had a single connection. Both got in anyway, and both have spent the years since telling the people coming behind them that the not-fitting-in was the point. In this episode: Being made a Dame: Meera passes on the message she got from another Dame, which was, roughly, that it means very little and she should enjoy every second of it. Twiggy admits she forgets about it half the time and that official letters keep addressing her as Dame Lawson. Essington: a mining village in South Staffordshire, halfway between Cannock and Willenhall, and a two up two down with the loo outside. Baths in front of the fire. A childhood spent out of the house from morning until dark, which Meera argues built the resilience and the appetite for risk that the generation after hers was never given room for. New Delhi, 1960: her parents arrived as what Meera calls a terrible mixture of ambitious, talented and poor. Her father's family lost everything in the partition of India in 1947 and he was in a refugee camp at thirteen. Her mother was recruited as a teacher in India by the British Department of Education and got the job offer first. Her father came by ship and spent a fortnight with his head down the toilet. Who Do You Think You Are: Meera found out that her mother's father had been arrested, imprisoned and tortured for fifteen months by the British authorities after joining a peaceful march for the freedom to worship. Her mother had never heard the story. Twiggy's own episode took her back to a great-great-grandmother left with six children and no money, who ended up in the workhouse. Mr Cartwright: the Spanish teacher who ran the guitar group with his cigarette wedged in the fret, was not supposed to be smoking in school, and did not care. He was the only teacher who asked Meera how she felt rather than how her grades were. He told her that if she chose the thing she was good at it would not feel like work, that her parents would come to understand, that he would back her up, and that she would be sad for the rest of her life if she never tried. The diary that became a career: Meera started writing as a teenager because of the confusion of a bicultural life, one person inside the house and another outside it, swapping accents like masks. She recommends journaling to anybody who wants to write, on the grounds that it teaches you your own voice. Goodness Gracious Me and the Kumars: the observations she used to laugh at on her own, entirely unaccompanied, became sketches. Sanjeev Bhaskar's brief for the granny was that she should be a hand grenade in the family, because nobody expects the old Indian lady to be the most radical person in the room. Meera describes what she got away with as that character, including staying in a hug with Tom Jones for a very long time to see what he would do. Anita and Me: her first novel, closely based on the Essington childhood. The designers worked from photographs of her actual family home and recreated the wallpaper, the carpet and the fake leather sofa. A number one single: the Kumars with Gareth Gates for Comic Relief. There is a gold disc on the wall, and they got to perform on Top of the Pops, which had been on Meera's bucket list long before the show ended. Twiggy had been on it twice: once as a teenage mod, tapped on the shoulder at a dance hall to go and dance on the show, and later as a solo singer, when the rule was that groups could mime and solo artists had to sing live. Bhaji on the Beach: her first film as a screenwriter, made with Gurinder Chadha, about a coachload of Indian women on a day trip to Blackpool. She wanted it because there had never been a drama about South Asian women in Britain, because the few roles that existed had been written from the outside, and because the collision of saris and kiss me quick hats was the truth of her childhood. Why she writes: Meera makes the case that one good story does more than a hundred political speeches, because a story invites you to stand in somebody else's shoes and then hands the invitation back. Vigilauntie: Twiggy gets the title days after Meera finished the manuscript. It is a memoir built around what ...
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    48 min
  • #103 - Kate Mosse

    #103 - Kate Mosse
    Nov 4 2024
    Dive into an enchanting conversation with the brilliant Kate Mosse, renowned author of "Map of Bones." In this episode, we explore her captivating storytelling journey from France to South Africa in the Joubert Family Chronicles. Discover how a chance encounter with history sparked Kate's passion for writing and hear about her upcoming live show celebrating 20 years of "Labyrinth." Key Takeaways: - Insight into Kate Mosse's inspiration behind her historical novels. - The challenges and joys of adapting a novel into a play. - Sneak peek at future projects, including a special anniversary tour. Don't miss out on this delightful exchange filled with literary insights and charming anecdotes! Tune in now for an inspiring listen. The music for the podcast is Twiggy's version of "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks and can be found on Apple Music at this link https://music.apple.com/gb/album/romantically-yours/693460953 If you’ve enjoyed listening to “Tea With Twiggy” please give take a moment to give us a lovely 5 STAR rating on Apple Podcasts. It really helps other people to find the show. If you haven’t done so already please subscribe to this podcast so you auto-magically get the next episodes for free and do tell all your friends and family about it too. If you want to connect with me I’d love to hear from you. You can find me on Twitter @Twiggy Or you can find me on Instagram @TwiggyLawson My thanks go to all the people that have helped this podcast happen: ● Thanks to all the team at Stripped Media including Ben Williams, who edits the show, my producer Kobi Omenaka and Executive Producers Tom Whalley and Dave Corkery If you want to know more about this podcast and others produced by Stripped Media please visit www.Stripped.media or email Producers@Stripped.Media to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 min
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