In episode 259 of The Drinking Hour, host David Kermode catches up with Abbie Bennington at a recent London tasting to talk about her new podcast Vintage Politics. The new series reflects on the role wine plays in politics via interviews with journalists, commentators and past and present political figures.
The discussion starts with Bennington’s previous life as a BBC journalist, how the concept for the podcast was born and what it aims to explore in both wine and politics. The chat then turns to anecdotes about John Sopel’s Bordeaux-related expenses, the contents of Gordon Brown’s fridge door and which US Presidents have had the lowest wine budgets for official functions. The pair then discuss the role of wine in state occasions, the guests lined up for the podcast and who the dream political interviewees would be.
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