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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Sir Keir Starmer

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Gyles talks to the Leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer. This isn't a political interview, instead it's an in-depth and fascinating conversation about Keir's background and personal history. Keir reminisces about his childhood in a village in Surrey; he remembers cramped car journeys in a Ford Cortina with four kids and four dogs squeezed onto the back seat. He also describes the impact his mum's serious illness had on him, his father and on the rest of the family. This is, at times, a moving conversation. Gyles also hears about Keir's university days, about his love of football, and about his first encounter with his wife. Thanks to Keir for giving us his time and energy, and for sharing his stories. Enjoy this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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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 play some other time put your phone down

0:23.9

tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org

0:29.4

hello and welcome to rosebud the podcast about interesting people and their first memories

0:37.2

we've had extraordinary guests from dame judy dench to the podcast about interesting people and their first memories.

0:42.5

We've had extraordinary guests from Dame Judy Dench to Sir Michael Palin,

0:48.3

actors, entertainers, writers, Oscar winners, an astrophysicist, an Archbishop of Canterbury,

0:51.6

all sorts. And this week is no exception.

0:55.8

Though this week, I'm not in our usual studio at Grovenor House in London's Park Lane. I'm on a train travelling from London to Burton-on-Trent, when I'm

1:02.3

meeting up with the man who aspires to be the United Kingdom's next Prime Minister.

1:09.1

Secere Stama. A lawyer by training, an MP since 2015, leader of the opposition since 2020.

1:16.6

You've seen him on TV and at the dispatch box.

1:19.6

But who is he? Where does he come from? Who were his parents?

1:24.6

What were his boy owned hopes and dreams? What made him what he is?

1:31.0

I promise you, there'll be no party politics here, but some interesting stories, I hope, some laughs,

1:37.7

and even, perhaps, some tears. Hear the music I'm sure the music

1:53.0

I I want to begin, if I may, with the same question I always begin with, what is your very first memory?

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