Su Pollard

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The sun is out and our guest this week is a ray of sunshine. It's the unique British comic actress and fashion icon Su Pollard. In this brilliant conversation, Su tells Gyles about her childhood in Nottingham, how she got the bug for performing when she was still in the infants and used to go to school dressed in wild outfits that made her look like a morris dancer. He hears about her parents, Don and Hilda, how her father liked to garden in his shirt and tie and their impressive work ethic. He hears about Su's first boyfriend, her first professional role and her first meeting with the Queen. And he hears about Hi-de-Hi and how Su sometimes answers the front door as Peggy. This is a unique conversation with one of the true originals of British showbiz.

Su is currently on a nationwide tour called "Still Fully Charged". Tickets and info available from supollardlive.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rosebud of Rosebud.
0:28.5	We're recording this in August, and the sun is shining, and I wanted somebody of a sunny disposition as my guest today, and I've got exactly that person.
0:38.6	Some will think her a bit kooky. She's certainly comical. She's very, very funny. She is delightful.
0:43.9	And knowing her a bit, she's perhaps more thoughtful and interesting and complex than you might
0:50.9	superficially think if you've only seen her occasionally on TV.
0:55.6	Because she's a friend of mine, I've seen her in many shows over the years.
0:59.9	She's a great musical theatre star, as well as being a fine comic actress.
1:04.3	I think I've seen her in Godspell, in Greece, in a wonderful show called Babes in Arms,
1:10.1	in me and my girl, I loved that,
1:12.3	in sweet charity, in the pilots of Penzance, and I know that she has been in more than 40
1:17.9	pantomimes. But you probably first got to know her as I did, when she appeared as Peggy, the
1:24.6	shalley made in the hugely successful sitcom in the 1980s, Heidi High.
1:30.1	Yeah, it is Sue Pollard.
1:33.2	She went on to appear in another series written by the same people who created Heidi High.
1:37.4	You rang, my lord.
1:38.9	I think she's very funny.
1:40.1	She's very delightful.
1:41.4	And I think also she might surprise you.
1:43.1	So here is my bundle of sunshine for this August weekend for you on Rosebud.
1:48.8	Cue the music.
2:06.0	So before we begin, can you just explain what you're wearing?
2:16.4	Yes, I suppose for the people that don't know me, my taste is eclectic, which means I can shove anything on which I really quite like.
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