Adjoa Andoh

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

It's Rosebud Christmas Cracker Week, and we're giving you two special extra episodes before our Christmas Special this Friday. This first Christmas Cracker is with the acclaimed British actress Adjoa Andoh, who stars as Lady Danbury in Netflix's Bridgerton, alongside many appearances at the RSC, National Theatre and in shows such as Doctor Who and Casualty. Adjoa tells Gyles about the challenges she faced growing up as "the only black girl in the Cotswolds", and how this informed her recent portrayal of Richard III - a performance which Gyles found inspiring. She talks about her teens as a blue-haired punk rocker, her first love, and her discovery of theatre and how it led her to a career as an actor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunt break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time. Go play some other time put your phone down tombollah open for fun
0:26.5	terms apply 18 plus gamble aware.org
0:29.4	hello it's almost g, and here at Rosebud, we've got something very exciting for you.
0:44.4	We're calling it the Rosebud Christmas Cracker Week. This week we're going to release two special
0:50.1	bonus episodes leading up to our Christmas special this Friday.
0:55.0	So what you're listening to now is our first Christmas Cracker episode.
0:59.0	This is quite exciting. Are you ready? I'm ready. Okay? Let's pull the Cracker and find out who's inside.
1:06.0	Oh! Oh, this is wonderful. It's the star of the Netflix smash hit Bridgeton.
1:14.6	It is Adjua Ando.
1:19.6	And the reason that she's my guest is that recently I went to see a remarkable production
1:24.6	of Shakespeare's play, Richard III.
1:26.6	It was directed by her and starred
1:29.3	her as King Richard. It was at the Rose Theatre in Kingston, and I was bowled away by it.
1:34.7	There was something completely compelling about her performance and the way she played Richard
1:40.7	as a reflection of her own life. She was, as a child, the only black girl in the
1:46.9	Cotswolds, and that was her infirmity. And that's what she brought to life in Shakespeare's
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