Gyles's diary, episode 19

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It's Gyles's first term at New College, Oxford, and in this episode we hear about what happens when the busiest man at Bedales takes on university life. And, needless to say, he hits the ground running. By the end of his first week he's had a few high-level meetings, met some influential and well-connected people, and had a tour of the Oxford Union. As the term progresses, he gives his maiden speech at the Union, writes his first article for the university magazine, and develops a crush on an unavailable fellow student. Plus some of your emails, some chat from Gyles and Harriet and well wishes for Marie "Mimi" Unsworth - get well soon from Gyles and Harriet!

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0:00.0	They say that less is more, so I'll be brief.
0:03.6	You want more? You're getting it.
0:05.6	This is more Rosebud. Welcome'm Giles. And because it's more Rosebud, we have more of the Rosebud team. In fact, we have the other half of the Rosebud team. That's Harriet Jane. How things
0:38.0	mean for you, Harriet? Yes, jolly good. Thanks, Charles. I've been down in my basement room,
0:43.7	which you have visited, where I keep all my material associated with my diary. I keep all my
0:49.5	bits and pieces in memoirs boxes. And the reason I've been down there this week is because I've
0:57.0	been finding material to be part of the illustrations for my new biography of A.A. Milne.
1:05.0	You know, I've written this book about Alan Alexander Milne, who famously wrote Winnie the Boo. It's Winnie the Boos centenary,
1:13.3	coming up next year. And I had some lovely correspondence with Christopher Robin, the real Christopher
1:19.5	Robin. Yeah. And I hadn't sort of dug it out or looked at it for years. And the picture
1:27.4	editor for the book said, well, maybe we
1:29.6	should have some of these letters in the book, maybe as end papers or something like that.
1:34.4	So we went down into the basement, and fortunately, she was young and strong, because she was able,
1:39.0	inevitably, you've seen, these are boxes, one part on top of the other. The box we needed for 1981, I think it was,
1:46.8	was at the bottom of a pile. So there were about six boxes. Anyway, she's strapping girl. Oh,
1:51.1	that's good, yeah. Managed to lift the boxes off. And we found three really lovely and
1:57.4	interesting letters from Christopher Robin that were encouraging from my point of view
2:02.8	because I was writing a play at that time about him, Christopher Robin, and his family and his
2:08.4	father and the creation of Winnie the Pooh.
2:11.1	And these letters were very reassuring because they said, I think you've got my father
2:16.2	about right.
2:17.2	I think what you're...
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