Dame Penelope Keith

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

If you love British comedy, you'll know and admire our guest this week: Dame Penelope Keith. The characters she played - Margo Leadbetter and Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton - are two of the best-known and most distinctive characters in sit-com. And this is a rare chance to hear an interview with Dame Penelope. Gyles talks to her about her childhood, growing up without a father, the daughter of a hard-working and talented mother who worked in hotels and took the young Penelope along with her. Penelope talks about her school days - when she was taught by Frence nuns - and how she got into drama school and got her first job in weekly rep. This is fun and unusual conversation with a much-loved actress. Enjoy this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.7	Summer and sunshine and falling in love.
1:10.3	I haven't thought about that in years.
1:13.8	That's the beginning of a song from a show called Salad Days. And in the 1950s, it was the longest running show in the history of the West End to that
1:20.7	date. And I had an EP record of it, and I played it again and again and again. I love the show. I love the song. I love
1:32.1	summer. Let's hope the sun is shining because have we got a special Rosebud guest for you today?
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1:47.0	Thank you. I'm in a state of high excitement. I'm in a state of high excitement. This for me is a very special episode of Rosebud. We've been very
2:08.6	lucky. We began Rosebud a couple of years ago with a great theatrical dame, Dame Judy Denton. Since then,
2:15.8	well, almost every dame that there is has appeared on Rosebud.
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