Anneka Rice
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week Gyles hears the reminiscences of the presenter, writer and painter Anneka Rice. Rice grew up in Surrey, the daughter of a builder and a frustrated housewife who went back to college and left 11 year-old Anneka to look after her baby sister and do the household chores. Anneka distracted herself by playing games with Action Men and dinky trucks - little did she know that these childhood fantasies would find their way into her adult life, when she donned a jumpsuit and travelled by helicopter in Treasure Hunt, and drove a truck with her name on it in Challenge Anneka. Anneka also tells Gyles about her regrets, why she took a break from the limelight, and about her love of rice pudding.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rosebud and who we, for the past couple of weeks, we've been running a |
| 0:30.6 | competition to win the chance to enjoy a delicious Rosebud tea at the J.W. Marriott Grovener House |
| 0:37.4 | with me, Charles. I'm excited to say |
| 0:40.2 | it's time now for the big reveal. Yes, I'm going to pull the lucky winner's name out of a hat |
| 0:45.7 | right now. Actually, it isn't a hat. It's a little plastic container, but it's got all the names in, |
| 0:54.1 | folded up, so I can't see where they are. |
| 0:56.1 | So my producer, Harriet, is now going to insert a drum roll here. |
| 1:01.7 | I'm going to pick the name. I'm picking the name now. |
| 1:05.3 | The winner is Sarah Collins. |
| 1:10.1 | Oh, is it Sarah Collins |
| 1:11.5 | S-A-R-A-Colins? |
| 1:14.4 | You've given your phone number, Sarah, |
| 1:16.4 | so we shall discover whether you are a Sarah or a Sarah |
| 1:19.4 | whichever you are, you are coming to tea with me |
| 1:23.0 | at the J.W. Marriott-Grovenor House |
| 1:25.9 | and I'm looking forward to it hugely. |
| 1:28.3 | We're going to be eating our lovely tea together, all the trimmings, the clotted cream, the rose petal jam, |
| 1:33.2 | the cake. Yes, a rosebud tea with Giles. I love a good tea. |
| 1:44.0 | My guest today is Annika Rice. As you'll hear, Annika's childhood was unusual. Her father was a builder and a mother, a frustrated housewife, who went back to college and left the young Annika to look after her younger sister and do the cooking and the washing up. |
| 2:05.9 | In order to escape, Annika joined the BBC when she was only 17. |
| 2:09.6 | And after a brief stint in Hong Kong, reading the news, |
| 2:13.5 | she returned to the UK and, as a very young person, |
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