More Rosebud - Gyles's Diaries episode 42

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We're entering the long, hot summer of 1976, and Gyles is moving into a big, new house with his young family and still forging ahead in his life and career. He is embarking on a second Oxford Theatre Festival, with his friend Noel Davis (who likes the start and end the working day with a stiff drink, and have a couple more over lunch); he is celebrating Michele's birthday in style at the Ritz, and he is attempting to break the record for the longest after-dinner speech. It's another action-packed year, diary fans!

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0:00.0	Give me an M, give me an O, give me an R, give me an E, give me more, give me more Rosebud. Hello, this is Jas Bradworth and I'm full of joy because it's June.
0:31.9	I'm also full of joy because I'm joined as ever on a Tuesday by my friend and colleague,
0:40.3	the producer of Rosebud, Harriet Jane.
0:40.9	Hello.
0:43.7	Hello, Harriet. Is June a good month for you?
0:46.4	It is. It's my birthday month.
0:51.1	It is. This coming Saturday will be the birthday of Harriet Jane.
0:55.3	And I'm not seeing her on her birthday, but you've got lots of family people,
0:57.9	because it's a Saturday. You're seeing lots of family people, I think, over the weekend.
1:03.3	Seeing my sister, both my daughters for separate things and a friend.
1:09.2	Very good. Because we're seeing each other quite a lot at the moment because we're rehearsing for our Edinburgh show. And I was
1:12.6	hoping to have a birthday lunch with Harriet to celebrate her birthday. But I have to put this on the
1:20.7	back burner because she's not really wanting to have any celebration at all until we've
1:23.9	learned the lines. Until we've learned the songs. We've got the moves, right?
1:28.6	We can't quite believe that we're doing some informal tryouts in only a couple of weeks
1:33.7	time.
1:34.6	I think it's two weeks today or two weeks tomorrow.
1:36.8	I know, crumbs.
1:38.5	You're allowed to read off a script.
1:40.4	No.
1:40.9	Well, I think at the first we could, at the the first read through. But the truth is we ought,
1:48.2	two weeks from now, we ought to have dropped the books. We're doing a couple of the private shows.
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