Ep. 117 – GYLES BRANDRETH - A Conversation With… – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

The Lovejoy Hour

Lovejoy

Society & Culture, Football, Sports

4.6 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2019

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to author and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth. Whilst discussing Gyles’ new book, ‘The 'Seven Secrets of Happiness’, they touch on waxing, bestiality, poetry, porn, funny jumpers, prisons, Oscar Wilde, the Queen, John Major, portmanteaus, public speaking, happiness, ‘dick pics’, radio, Errol Flynn, Cliff Richard Margaret Thatcher, politics, Copenhagen, his diaries, ‘dick pics’ again, Virginia Wolff, Lionel Blair and of course, the meaning of life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast and it's another special.
0:04.7	Today's guest is very special this one actually because today's guest is
0:07.8	Charles Brandreth who made us laugh a lot.
0:11.5	This is spectacular.
0:13.7	Oh, he's such good fun.
0:15.1	He's a really good fun.
0:16.3	He's so good at telling a story.
0:19.1	So it's like an hour and a half, just pure joy.
0:24.2	He's joyous.
0:25.0	He's a joyous raconteur.
0:27.0	He's like a, he's like a sort of Forrest Gump.
0:33.2	Forrest Gump.
0:34.8	Oh, the film, Forrest Gump.
0:35.6	No, but you know what I mean?
0:36.2	He's been through the, he's been through.
0:38.4	He just knows. Yeah, he knows everybody.
0:41.6	Everyone. He was there at the time. Yeah, he's great. And he also wrote a book called The Seven
0:46.2	Secrets of Happiness. And I thought the interview would be predominantly about this book.
0:51.6	I had to just crowbar it in at the end because he told us so many stories.
0:55.6	It was so much fun though.
0:57.0	I just thoroughly enjoyed it.
0:58.8	And I didn't ask half my questions.
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