Hello, I'm Giles Brandreuth, and welcome to Rosebud, the podcast where I take famous guests right back to the very beginning, to their first memories and experiences.

Are they still the same person looking back? What have they learnt from those formative years? And what's their advice for future generations?

No. years and what's their advice for future generations? ...and what's their advice for future generations? Hello and welcome to another episode of Rosebud.

I've come to the Grovenor House Hotel in Park Lane in London to meet somebody very special.

I think I could fairly describe her as an icon. Well, I can describe her as an icon because she's just, literally just, appeared on a postage stamp for the first time. Yes,

the first, I think, girl band to be featured on postage stamps in the United Kingdom are the

spice girls. And I'm going to be meeting one of them. My favourite, known to some as

Ginger Spice, known to others as Jerry Harrowell, known to me as Jerry Halliwell Horner. I've known

her for a few years, but as a result of our conversation today, I think I'm going to know her

even better. She is, of course, a singer, she's a writer, she's a very intriguing person

with a remarkable story to tell. Welcome to Rosebud and here is Jerry Halliwell Horner. Jerry, I want you to begin by telling me what your very first memory is.

Cast your mind back.

The very first thing you can really remember in your entire life.

Okay, so one instantly comes to mind is that I'm in a pram and it's raining

and there's one of those plastic covers over the top and the raindrops of, you know, just coming down and my mother pushing.

That's what I think I can remember.

And also I was quite, I would say, a curious and

open child. So remember sort of smiling at people from the pram. And who was your mother?

So my mother, she's still alive. She, her name is Anna Marie Hidalgo. She's Spanish. She was born in 1945. She came over here as a nanny.

And she met my father. She was working in Marble, near Marble Arch. And she met my father.

And they only knew each other for seven weeks and they got married. Wow. Yeah. Who was your father? My father, he's not

alive. He was, he was born in 1922. So he was an older father when I was born. Wow, he was

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