Hi-de-Hi Holiday Special from Broadstairs, with Jeffrey Holland

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Rosebud is off to the seaside, to the Sarah Thorne Theatre in Broadstairs in Kent, where we meet the much-loved star of Hi-de-Hi and You Rang, M'Lord, Jeffrey Holland. And we meet some Rosebud listeners! And we sing a song and Harriet dresses up as a yellow coat. Jeffrey tells Gyles about his days working with Croft and Perry, his early life in Walsall, the sadness of losing his father when he was only 14, and how he got into acting. He talks about his love of Superman and Stan Laurel, and his life lesson. We remember Simon Cadell and generally have a marvellous day out. Enjoy this.

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0:00.0	Harriet,
0:01.6	where are we? We're outside St. Pancras Station next to the main road. We are certainly next to the main road. St. Pancrestation is in London, England, and we're going to Broadstairs. Yes, you see. Which is on the seaside. Yeah. We thought, is the end of July, August is coming, let's get our bucket and spade. We didn't expect it to be bucketing down. there's a bit of rain
0:00.8	above us.
0:02.1	I hope it's not raining we thought is the end of July August is coming let's get our bucket and spade we didn't expect
0:21.3	it to be bucketing down there's a bit of rain above us I hope it's not raining in broadstairs it's
0:25.7	always sunny in broadstairs it's always sunny and broadstairs it's my fantasy ideal seaside resort the Isle
0:31.4	of Thanet wonderful we're going to meet some exciting holiday type people there this is going to be a holiday
0:36.5	special yeah I hope you've come with the right kind of costume. I certainly have. It's in my bag. Hey, surprises galore with the Rosebud, holiday seaside special. Boop, boop, the train's leaving. Oh, look, the train arriving at Platform 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. It's coming in sideways. That's why we're leaving from Platform 1. C on the road. In fact, this special Rosebud on the Road.
1:29.3	In fact this is Rosebud by the seaside because we are in Broadstairs.
1:35.3	For international listeners, where is Broadstairs?
1:38.3	Well it's on the southeast coast, the Isle of Thannet in the country England, and it's charming. And we're here for a
1:45.7	reason in a theatre. The theatre is called the Sarah Thorn Theatre. And Sarah Thorn is one of the
1:52.0	most remarkable women in world theatre history. The reason she is significant in world theatre
1:59.0	is that she was the pioneer in theatre education.
2:03.6	She was essentially an actress, she came from a theatre family, born around 1836, died 1899,
2:09.6	a distinguished actress, but she was also a theatre manager.
2:12.6	She managed theatres in London, as her parents had done before her.
2:15.6	She managed a theatre in Margate, near where
2:19.3	we are here in Broadstairs, which is the reason why this theatre is named after her.
2:23.3	But I think the most significant part of her story is that she really began training actors
2:30.3	and theatre people. There was a wonderful actor called William McCready, who was
2:37.0	the first person really to ensure that productions were actually produced, directed, because
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