More Rosebud - Brandreth meets Beethoven

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

We've got something quite unique for you this week: an episode of More Rosebud, in which Gyles meets one of the greatest composers who ever lived : Ludwig Van Beethoven. In this fascinating conversation, Gyles will find out about Beethoven's first memory, his challenging childhood in which he was forced to play the piano by his drunken father, and his ascent to genius, both aided and hampered by his encroaching deafness. In this conversation, Beethoven is brought to life by the writer and performer, Tama Matheson. What you are going to hear is a classic Rosebud interview, answered by Tama as if he were Beethoven himself. Tama is a brilliiant performer who has written and conceived a series of shows based on the lives of great artists - composers and poets - in which he brings these geniuses to life through performance, music, and meticulous research. Tama's amazing show about the life of Beethoven I Shall Hear In Heaven is at Opera Holland Park in London on the 6th and 8th August. Tickets are available here. Tama's own website is here. The Moonlight Sonata at the end of the episode is played by Jason Gillham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to More rosebud. This is the special rosebud that comes out on a Tuesday,
0:28.8	though we don't mind when you listen to it, in which I'm here, I'm Giles Brandreth,
0:33.4	and I'm with my friend and producer who is called Harriet Jane.
0:37.5	I'm still called Harriet Jane.
0:39.7	And in a moment we're going to be introducing a very special guest to you
0:44.0	in the form of Beethoven, the composer, Beethoven.
0:49.6	Before we explain all about that, when you were, you're into classical music, aren't you,
0:55.6	serious music, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, these names, Brukner, I'm thinking of all the bees.
1:01.2	Oh, yes.
1:01.6	These people mean something to you?
1:04.4	Yes, well, because I sing in the choir and we sing classical music.
1:08.6	And my daughter plays a violin. But, mean I'm not I'm not a world expert but
1:16.6	I do love music and do you listen to it um I probably listen more to radio too actually radio
1:24.3	two yeah pop music how interesting I love pop music I love soul music. And do you tune into it,
1:29.6	or do you have a machine? Have it on in the car. So it's actually tuned to radio two and you press
1:34.8	Radio 2. I mean, I've gone off it a bit since Ken Bruce left. Oh, well, if you want Ken Bruce,
1:41.2	you have to come to Rosebud. I loved Ken Bruce. I mean, I know this makes me sound really middle-aged, but I loved Ken Bruce.
1:47.5	You did?
1:48.1	That's why he was one of our first guests.
1:50.5	Yeah, and I liked Steve Wright.
1:52.3	Yeah, I mean, this is extraordinary.
1:54.2	When we began Rosebud, I was saying now, well, we're going to begin with Dame Judy Dench, and then I think we might have, I don't know, another Dame and then we'll have a knight.
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