Rowan Williams: CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Our Rosebud Christmas Special is with Rowan Williams, who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. Rowan begins by talking to Rowan telling Gyles about his childhood as a bright and doted upon only child who became increasingly drawn towards the church. He talks about his happy schooldays, his close friendships, and his inspirational teachers. And later in the podcast Rowan and Gyles talk about the message of healing at the heart of Christmas, and what it's like to be Archbishop of Canterbury. Next week and the week after we'll have two fun shows: we've made you some Christmas and new year medleys with messages from lots of our Rosebud guests. But until then, merry Christmas from us to you! We love getting your messages, so please email us at [email protected] with your first memories or comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunt break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time. Go on some other time put your phone down tombollah open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware dot org
0:29.4	hello one and all here's to a truly cool yule i'd be standing under the mistletoe, except my producer, Harriet, has said,
0:39.2	if you do that, you'll be cancelled. Canceled, man. Just get on with it. So, I'm getting on with it.
0:44.4	It's time for the Rosebud Christmas special. Welcome. And we've got special music. Oh yes,
0:49.5	this is the season to be jolly. And we've made our signature tune extra specially twinkly for this special occasion. Hello again. This is Giles Brandreth and this is our Christmas special, last in our Christmas
1:26.4	Cracker week of episodes.
1:27.9	And I think we've got something perfect lined up for you.
1:31.0	We spent a long time thinking about a really Christmasy guest.
1:34.9	There's Father Christmas, of course, but he's very busy with work this week.
1:38.9	There's Cliff Richard, but he was unfortunately unavailable too,
1:43.1	although we are working on booking him at some point in
1:46.0	2024, so listen out for that. And then we had a brainwave. What is more Christmassy than an
1:53.2	archbishop? Christmas, after all, is the date when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus.
2:00.4	The head of the Church of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
2:03.5	So what we've done is invite my favorite Archbishop of Canterbury to join us.
2:09.5	It is the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
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