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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles's diary, episode 23

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Gyles is back at Oxford after the summer... with a bang, of course. His long-awaited pantomime, Cinderella, opens at the Playhouse, with Sir Michael Redgrave reading the Prologue (and getting stage fright in the wings before the show). Plus Gyles sees James Robertson Justice naked, goes on TV again and forgets his lines for Twelfth Night. Yes, it's another great episode for you, diary fans!

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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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