Sue Perkins

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

We're really delighted that Sue Perkins is our guest on Rosebud this week, and this is a special conversation. Gyles and Sue have known and worked with each other for years on shows like Radio 4's Just a Minute, which Sue now hosts, so this conversation about Sue's first memories, family history, childhood and student days is intimate, honest, and at times very moving. Sue tells Gyles about her childhood, growing up in a close but slightly sheltered family in south London. She tells Gyles about being left-handed, about playing the flute and about her first boyfriend. She talks about how she defied her teachers' predictions by getting a place at Cambridge, and about the life-changing friends she made there. She talks about coming out and about finding herself. Thank you very much to Sue for your warmth, your wit and for your wonderful stories. Cue the music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.9	All the best shows have catchphrases, you know, like, nice to see you, to see you nice, or
0:36.8	I don't believe it, even just see you, to see you nice. Or, I don't believe it.
0:39.4	Even, just like that.
0:41.0	Or, I'm free.
0:42.8	So, we've got ours.
0:45.1	Cue the music.
0:46.4	Yes, cue the music.
0:49.6	It's our catchphrase, and yet it is.
0:52.5	Harriet, cue the music.
1:23.5	Music. It's our catchphrase, and yet it is, and I'm very proud of that. The reason, of course, is because you're listening. And I imagine the reason you're listening
1:28.6	is because of the remarkable guests we have. And I'm so grateful to them and indeed to you.
1:35.6	Often the guests are friends of mine, and today is no exception, because our special guest
1:40.5	today is Sue Perkins, comedian, writer, presenter. I know her. I've known her over many
1:47.4	years because we've appeared together on the Radio 4 show just a minute, which I first began doing
1:52.5	in the 1980s, and now she chairs that show and does so brilliantly. I've been a fan of hers,
1:58.4	ever since I first saw her, I think, on something called Light Lunch
2:00.9	years ago.
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