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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

More Rosebud... Danny Baker

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Danny Baker tells Gyles his extraordinary rags to riches story - from a council house in Bermondsey to partying with Elton John and Rod Stewart. He tells Gyles about his extraordinary father, Spud Baker. He also talks about getting cancer, and about getting cancelled, and how he survived both by being a "natural born Pollyanna". This story is full of wit, charm, funny stories, and Danny's characteristic ebullience. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Memories like the corners of my mind sang Barbara Streisand.

0:06.0

And here at Rosebud, we're all about memories.

0:09.0

So, let's cue the music and start the show.

0:13.0

Music. Harriet, it's Tuesday morning, so we chat to one another.

0:36.6

And I must tell you this, I would love us to have Barbara Streisand on our list of people to be a guest on Rosebud.

0:45.4

And it's not impossible. We're obviously this year going to go to the United States of America to collect some guests from over there.

0:52.0

We're going to travel a bit more this coming year.

0:54.8

But Barbara Streisand comes to London.

0:57.4

I know this, because I went only a year or two

1:00.5

for a meeting with the television company

1:02.9

just off Kensington High Street.

1:05.7

And I was actually having a meeting with the head of the company

1:08.7

in his office.

1:10.6

And a young man

1:11.8

who was, you know, work experience, but anyway, late teens or maybe early 20s, who'd been on

1:18.0

reception, he came bursting into the room, barely knocked, bursting the room, to speak to the

1:23.8

Boston, said, you've got to do something. There's this dreadful old woman in reception who has

1:27.1

just, you know,

1:28.5

disrespected me.

1:29.5

Didn't quite say that, but that was the gesture of it.

1:32.2

And the boss said, what happened?

1:35.6

And the boy said, well, I put her name on the tag.

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