Gyles's diary, episode 23
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome to more Rosebud. |
| 0:23.5 | Hello, Harriet. |
| 0:24.6 | You should be in good form because the A-level results came in the other day, |
| 0:29.7 | and I think they were satisfactory from your family's point of view. |
| 0:33.4 | Yes, it wasn't me taking my A-levels, although I am obviously very young. |
| 0:37.5 | It was my daughter. You can take A-levels, although I am obviously very young. |
| 0:40.8 | It was my daughter. You can take A-levels at any age, of course. |
| 0:41.6 | That's true. That's true. |
| 0:42.6 | Deciding at last to do Sanskrit A-level. |
| 0:45.0 | I did try and do an Italian A-level as an adult, and I gave up after about six weeks. |
| 0:51.1 | It got so complicated when they started doing the subjunctive or something. |
| 0:55.6 | My wife, Michelle, did a late degree. She had a degree already in history. She thought she'd |
| 1:01.1 | do one in English, and she did, you know, in 2000, and found the whole language of academia had |
| 1:07.4 | so changed. Oh, absolutely. The way they talked about the discourse and everything was really she had to |
| 1:12.2 | relearn the vocabulary in order to take part in the course but needed to say she got a degree |
| 1:17.0 | oh did she brilliant yes so she's got two degrees and we now we have seven grandchildren and only one |
| 1:24.0 | granddaughter and I'm pleased to say our granddaughter got the results she hoped for, |
| 1:28.8 | so she's going to go off and become a doctor. |
| 1:32.9 | Congratulations. |
| 1:33.8 | Take six years. |
| 1:35.0 | What is your daughter going to go off and do? |
| 1:37.9 | She, Sylvie. |
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