More Rosebud - New York City Diaries with Gyles and Harriet, and Tales from Broadway with Josh Ellis
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Rosebud has been on its first international road trip, to New York City. In this episode, Gyles and Harriet chat about their trip... about how they gossiped for 15 hours straight on the flight over, about being guests of the Queen at the New York Public Library and seeing Pooh Bear, Kanga, Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet and the new Roo, and about Anna Wintour giving Gyles an unexpected compliment. In the second half of the show, Gyles talks to Josh Ellis, one of Broadway's most distinguished Press Agents, who worked on productions such as 42nd Street, Into the Woods, The King and I, The Elephant Man and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. He tells Gyles insider tales about some of the stars he worked with during his long career, including Yul Brynner, Rex Harrison, Katharine Hepburn, Eartha Kitt, Cher, David Bowie and Ethel Merman. It's fascinating, and gives a real flavour of life at the heart New York's theatre land.
Our thanks for Josh Ellis for this fun and fascinating conversation. Our thanks to New York City for being fabulous. And our thanks to you for listening. Enjoy this.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Giles Brandreth. This is Moore Rosebud. It's Tuesday. Well, that means it's diaries, but it's |
| 0:07.0 | diaries with a bit of a difference this Tuesday. A couple of weeks from now, we'll be continuing my |
| 0:13.0 | boyhood diaries from back in the 1970s. Well, today, it's diaries from 2026, because Harriet Jane, |
| 0:21.6 | my producer and I, |
| 0:23.8 | we've come to New York City. |
| 0:27.6 | So these are diary days from New York. |
| 0:28.6 | New York. |
| 0:29.8 | Cue the music. Music. Welcome to More Rosebud. |
| 0:51.3 | More Rosebud is what comes out on a Tuesday. |
| 0:54.6 | I don't know when you're listening to it, but we're recording it on a Tuesday. |
| 0:58.7 | Possibly a Tuesday a while ago, by the time you're listening to this. |
| 1:02.3 | I'm Giles Brandreth, and I'm in New York, New York. |
| 1:07.3 | And, of course, I couldn't be here with Rosebud without being with my producer and friend. |
| 1:11.6 | It's Harriet Jane. |
| 1:13.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.4 | Wow. |
| 1:14.9 | You didn't tell me you were going to have just pack me in the suitcase and put me in the hold of the plane, |
| 1:18.7 | then, Giles, with the recording equipment. |
| 1:21.2 | Can I tell everybody, she is so petite. |
| 1:23.7 | She came on as hand luggage. |
| 1:26.0 | The equipment did go in the hold, but she came on with me |
| 1:31.5 | in my hold-all. And we had fun, didn't we? Fun enough, we think about Rosebud 24-7, all the way |
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