Gyles Brandreth
The Travel Diaries
Holly Rubenstein
4.6 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Today, I’m joined by Gyles Brandreth. Summing up the life and career of Gyles is no easy feat. He’s a prolific broadcaster, actor, journalist, novelist, biographer and podcaster, and he was formerly an MP and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. You'll have seen him on Celebrity Googlebox; Countdown's Dictionary Corner hundreds of times, as well as on numerous TV panel shows. He's even the President of the Association of British Scrabble Players!
Through all these different jobs Gyles has travelled the world several times over, from Sri Lanka and Dubai to former Soviet Russia and East Germany. As you’ll hear, though, it’s the British seaside staycation that Gyles loves most.
Destination recap:
- Norderney, Germany
- Isle of Thanet, Kent, England
- Broadstairs, Kent, England
- Switzerland
- Corfu, Greece
- France
- Iceland
- Isle of Wight, England
- Sri Lanka
- India
- Dubai
- Sardinia
- Sicily
- Mexico
- Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Swansea, Wales
- Russia
- East Berlin, East Germany
- Mekong Delta, Vietnam and Cambodia
- Heaven!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | Thank you for tuning in. |
| 0:11.4 | I'm Holly Rubinstein. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm a journalist and editor. |
| 0:14.8 | And here each week I'll be speaking to a very special guest about their adventures around the world and the travel experiences and destinations that have shaped their lives. |
| 0:25.9 | Today I'm joined by Giles Brandreth. |
| 0:28.9 | Summing up the life and career of Giles is no easy feat. |
| 0:33.2 | He's a prolific broadcaster, a journalist, a novelist, a biographer, and a podcaster, |
| 0:39.4 | and he was formerly an MP and law commissioner of the Treasury. |
| 0:43.6 | Through all these different jobs, he's travelled the world several times over. |
| 0:47.8 | We talk about the times he visited Sri Lanka, Dubai, former Soviet Russia and East Germany, |
| 0:53.7 | but as you're here, it's the British seaside |
| 0:56.5 | staycation that Giles loves most. All that and much more coming up on the Travel Diaries. |
| 1:10.0 | Giles Brandreth, welcome to the Travel Diaries podcast. Thank you so much for being here. How are you? |
| 1:15.4 | I'm in good form. Excited to be with you. Excited to go on any journey, even one in a room in the city of London with you. |
| 1:24.0 | But maybe we're going to go on exciting adventures to other parts of the world. Who knows? |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, a meeting room isn't perhaps the most kind of inspiring, evocative place, but I'm expecting |
| 1:33.5 | that we'll be transported. |
| 1:34.8 | Well, I don't know. |
| 1:35.0 | I think you can have a lot of things going on in your head. |
| 1:38.0 | So I'm a great one for keeping diaries. |
| 1:40.6 | And so it doesn't matter. |
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