Gyles's diary, episode 15

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The second half of 1966 - Marlene Dietrich, university interviews, and the final goodbyes. This is a roller-coaster episode of Gyles's diaries, which is full of incident. Encouraged by his mother, Gyles goes on a charitable summer camp to Kent and doesn't enjoy it; there is a scandal at school while he is preparing for his Oxford entrance exam; he and Simon Cadell see Marlene Dietrich live in Golders Green and, in a moving finale, he leaves Bedales for good and gets goodbye letters from some old friends. Plus Gyles and Harriet chat. NB in this episode there is some discussion of some sensitive issues around teacher/pupil relationships. As Gyles reflects, these diaries present what happened to Gyles back in the 1960s - times have changed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to More Rosebud.
0:23.7	More Rosebud means, well, more of me, Charles Brandreth, more of, well, my diaries this week,
0:30.0	because every other week we give you bits from my diaries, from my teenage years, and more,
0:34.5	and this is the bit that people love, more of my producer and friend Harriet
0:38.0	Jane.
0:39.2	Harriet, have you brought in the teenage diaries and love letters from your yesteryear that
0:44.8	you promised?
0:46.1	Not yet.
0:47.4	It's coming.
0:48.0	It is, it is, because I'm moving house, so then I'll find it.
0:51.5	You're moving house.
0:52.5	That's, oh gosh.
0:53.9	I'm going to have to be a caring colleague while you're moving house because there will be
1:00.2	the distractions of moving house.
1:02.5	There'll be the nightmare of, are you having the new house done up a bit?
1:06.6	Yeah, a lot.
1:07.3	Oh, good luck.
1:09.2	The builders.
1:10.2	They're never on schedule. They're never on budget.
1:12.8	Just, I tell you this, however much you think they will be, however much, you know, well, I don't think they will be.
1:21.0	They never have been in the history of the world. I know. I mean, ours are really, they work really hard.
1:26.5	They're not the ones that turn up three hours late and roll their eyes when you ask them, no, they're really efficient.
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