Dame Jilly Cooper

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

It's the fifth of the Rosebud Dames, and in this episode Gyles is talking to Dame Jilly Cooper about her life and times. They talk about her childhood, when she was horse mad and wasn't even put off by being bitten by her first pony. They talk about her early days as an office worker, when she got fired from 22 jobs. They talk about leaving the manuscript for Riders on the bus. And they talk about the best ways to write a really good sex scene. This is an intimate chat between old friends: enjoy. 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 on play some other time put your phone down
0:23.9	tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org
0:29.4	can improve any dull piece of work canvass magic right turns dismal diction into spell-binding sentences.
0:40.3	Canva's magic right sprinkles enchanting inscriptions into dull documents.
0:45.7	Canva's magic right turns dull drafts into salient soliloquies, dull words designed, convincing,
0:54.0	eloquent, compelling, poetic with Canva AI tools.
0:58.7	Canva, design against dull.
1:01.5	Hello again, I'm Giles Brandreuth. The month is March, the daffatles and in bloom, and this is Rosebud.
1:08.5	Music And this is Rosebud.
1:34.5	This is our podcast where every week I meet somebody interesting
1:38.4	and talk to them about their early recollections, their very first memories.
1:42.8	And I'm quite excited this week because I'm
1:45.3	come to the Grovenor House Hotel in London's Park Lane to meet a very old friend, somebody I've
1:51.0	known for a long time. Rivals, riders, polo. These have been internationally best-selling novels
1:58.1	written by Jilly Cooper. But there's so much more to Jilly Cooper than her huge, successful books.
2:04.6	She is a most unusual and charming woman.
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