Matt Tebbutt and Benji Webbe looked back on a childhood belief about Lucozade during a Radio Wales conversation. The pair, who grew up in Newport, revisited the drink’s place in family life as something offered when children were ill.
Benji Webbe and Newport
Webbe said his mother believed Lucozade carried healing power. “I think my mum did actually believe there was a healing power in Lucozade,” he said. He added: “They really thought that this Lucozade was a healing process.”
That memory places the drink inside a very specific household habit: it was not treated as an everyday soft drink, but as something linked to care. The conversation on Radio Wales drew on that shared experience from Newport, where the idea appears to have been part of ordinary family thinking rather than a rare belief.
Matt Tebbutt and Lucozade
Tebbutt matched that recollection with his own. “It was always when kids were ill,” he said, before adding: “It used to be in a glass bottle didn’t it.” His comment adds a practical detail to the memory, tying the drink not only to illness but also to the way people would have remembered seeing it at home.
The contrast in the exchange is straightforward. The childhood belief cast Lucozade as a healing aid; Tebbutt’s line about it being “when kids were ill” keeps the memory grounded in routine care rather than medicine. That split between what children thought and what the drink actually was gives the discussion its shape.
Radio Wales conversation
The exchange matters because it captures how a product can become part of family language. For people who grew up in Newport, the memory is less about the drink itself than about the moment it appeared: illness, attention, and a parent handing over something that seemed to help.
For readers, there is no action to take and no follow-up announced from the discussion. The useful detail is the picture it leaves behind: Matt Tebbutt and Benji Webbe revisiting the same childhood story, and Lucozade sitting in that memory as a symbol of comfort and care.
