Anneka Rice

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.1K 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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