Alan Davies

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

You might notice that this episode of Rosebud is slightly longer than usual - and that's because this story is so powerful. This conversation with the stand-up, writer, actor and TV star Alan Davies is virtually unedited - because it's unmissable. In it, Alan tells Gyles about the two most significant, and devastating, events of his childhood: the death of his mother when he was only six years old, and the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his father after she died. And he tells Gyles about how he has healed and gone on to have his own family, and experience unconditional love with his own children. This is a very sad, at times upsetting, episode, but also one full of hope, laughter and insight. It is well worth your time, and please get in touch with hello@rosebudpodcast.com with any thoughts you have on the themes Alan and Gyles discuss here.

Alan Davies is on tour in the UK, Australia and elsewhere - get tickets here. His new book, White Male Stand-Up is also available now.

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1:02.1	Yes, I designed a sweater that Diana bought in Kensington in the 1980s. On the front, it carries the words, I'm a luxury.
1:09.8	And on the back, it says, few can afford.
1:12.8	Well, I'd like to think that Rosebud is a luxury we can all afford.
1:17.0	Welcome to it.
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1:42.3	Come to the music. Well, this week, it's another special guest.
1:46.1	And another person that I've known quite well over a number of years,
1:58.6	it's the actor, presenter, writer, stand-up comedian Alan Davis. I've always felt a fellow feeling for him because we were born within 48 hours of one another.
2:02.6	We're both byseans, though he was born a few years later than me, I think I first got to know him, was it doing QI? It might have been, because he is the one permanent feature of QI,
2:11.6	which if you haven't seen it, is a very entertaining TV show, which is popular in this country,
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