Piers Morgan

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This is an exclusive, and more or less uncensored, interview with the journalist and media powerhouse Piers Morgan, who Gyles spoke to live at the Bridlington Business Day this year. Piers talks to Gyles about his childhood, growing up above a country pub in Sussex, about his schooldays being a "buffoon", and about how peach brandy helped to secure him a job editing the News of the World. PIers talks about Meghan Markle, his thoughts on "woke", and his chequered relationship with Donald Trump. He talks, briefly, about phone hacking and the importance of safeguarding free speech.

This is a frank and sometimes provocative conversation with someone who has been at the centre of the media landscape since the 1990s.

This interview was recorded at Bridlington Spa and was a keynote speech at the Bridlington Business Day.

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Giles Brandreth, and I'm delighted to be introducing another edition of what some people are calling the best podcast in the world.
0:10.6	Well, two of those people are Harriet, my producer and me.
0:14.5	It's Rosebud. I hope you enjoyed. Cue the music. I'm speaking in a hushed voice because I'm in a very quiet room next or to quite a noisy room.
0:46.6	I'm in the green room at the Bridlington Spa.
0:49.8	This is in the beautiful seaside resort town of Bridlington in East Yorkshire, where I come every year at about this time of year to be part of something called the Bridlington Business Day, celebrating East Yorkshire and all that it has to offer.
1:05.9	I had such fun at the Bridlington Business Day last year when our special guest was Bjorn Ulvares,
1:12.6	found a member of Abba. It really was a remarkable episode. I wonder who the organizers
1:17.6	of the Bridlington Business Day have conjured up for me this year. Who have they brought
1:22.6	to the Bridington Spa? They're clever guys, Stephen Parleby and Mark Lonsdale. They'll have found somebody quite interesting.
1:29.7	I'll tell you who it is. It's somebody very interesting. It's none other than Pierce Morgan,
1:36.0	journalist, broadcaster, controversialist. Is he or is he not a friend of Megan Markle?
1:42.5	He certainly talks about her quite a bit. Is he or is he not a friend of Donald Trump?
1:46.4	He certainly met him quite a few times.
1:48.9	This is a journalist with a record and a reputation.
1:54.2	Over the years, we've bumped into one another.
1:56.9	I think we had a little tension between us when I was a member of Parliament in the 1990s
2:01.6	and he was the editor of the news of the world.
2:04.6	And I remember they were going to run a story that wasn't true and I phoned him up and I said it isn't true.
2:10.6	He said if it isn't true we won't be running it.
2:12.6	But if it is true we will. They didn't run it.
2:15.6	But I was advised by my lawyer they They said, if you're speaking to
2:18.6	Piers Morgan, make sure you've got a tape recorder in your hand. So in case we need to use your
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