This is Giles Brandreuth, and this podcast is coming to you from the country that has the longest

name of all the countries in the world. Yes, it's coming to you from London, the capital city of the

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. We know some of you are listening around the

world. I think our furthest listeners are in New Zealand. Anyway, if you're in New Zealand,

hello from us to you, whatever you are. We're very glad that you're here. Yes, it's time

for another episode of Rosebud. Cue we start this week's episode, a quick reminder that Christmas

is coming up and then New Year, and we're going to have some special episodes around then,

which are going to feature your memories. And if you have memories of Christmas's past,

your child, maybe your first memory of Christmas, or your first encounter

with Father Christmas, they now seem to call Santa Claus. But anyway, I always think of him as Father

Christmas. If you want to share those with us, please do. You just get in touch with us. Hello at

Rosebudpodcast.com. Hello at Rosebudpodcast, all on word.com. And now to this week's guest, and it's time for

another Rosebud on the road. We won't be doing these every week. We're doing, in fact, too, in

quick succession at the moment, but that's just by chance. Now and again, I'm going to meet somebody

in a theatre, at a book festival, in a church.

That's what I met Anne Glenn Conner, I think, and the acoustic was a bit strange.

This week I'm going to a theatre, a theatre that I know and love.

It's in south-west London.

It's called the Orange Tree Theatre.

It's in Richmond.

And I've been to see many shows there. And over the

years, I've had conversations there with some very remarkable people. In fact, some people that we

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