Gyles's diary, episode 17

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Another bumper episode of Gyles's diaries, featuring lots of chat, more diaries, and a gorgeous listener email and poem from Alex and Isabella Porter. Gyles continues his travels around the USA - he finishes his teaching job in Baltimore, and begins travelling around the US, going to Washington DC, New York City and Canada - where he visits Expo '67. Gyles tells Harriet about his wealthy ancestor, the great Dr. Benjamin Brandreth, inventor of "Brandreth's Pills" and creator of the family fortune. This leads Gyles and Harriet to come up with their own invention... stay tuned to find out what it is! Enjoy this episode, have a lovely sunny day wherever you are - and please email us at [email protected] if you want to tell us about your younger days. Or about anything else, for that matter!

Recorded at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House on Park Lane in London.

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0:00.0	Welcome to More Rosebott with me, Charles Brandreth and my friend and producer Harriet Jane.
0:27.2	Harriet, what do you think is your passion in life?
0:30.7	I ask for a reason.
0:31.9	Oh, that's a difficult question.
0:36.5	And I have not given you a forewarning of it.
0:39.2	This is rather like I do a radio show called Just a Minute,
0:42.7	where they give you a subject to talk about for 60 seconds
0:45.9	without hesitation, deviation or repetition,
0:48.1	and you genuinely don't know what it's going to be
0:50.0	until they give it to you.
0:50.9	I know.
0:51.8	So I'm asking you, and I'm not telling you, well, I'm going to
0:56.0	tell you why I've asked it in a moment, but what do you think is your passion? Oh gosh, I really don't
1:02.1	know. A cake. It's a good answer. And eating things like that, as often as possible.
1:11.7	Sometimes for breakfast.
1:13.8	Really?
1:14.6	Yeah.
1:15.5	I have a chocolate biscuit for breakfast or a cake, yeah.
1:19.4	I mean, I've got a really sweet tooth.
1:21.7	I've already had two chocolate, sort of large chocolate biscuits today.
1:28.1	Wow.
1:29.2	The reason I ask the question is I've been reflecting on wisdom given to me many years ago
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