The Rosebud Second Birthday Edition - Dame Judi Dench Returns
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
It's Rosebud's second birthday, and we're celebrating with another conversation with our very first guest: Dame Judi Dench. This time, it's been recorded in front of an audience, at the Concert Artists' Association in Covent Garden, London. Dame Judi treats us to some more stories from her amazing career. She tells Gyles about working with Tommy Steele, Johnny Depp and Clint Eastwood. She tells Gyles about having Eric Morecambe over for lunch. She talks about Macbeth and Twelfth Night and gives us some speeches from those plays - which will stop you in your tracks.
We're extremely lucky to hear from this legendary actress once more. And we're extremely lucky to have been able to give you Rosebud for the past two years!
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The I'm I'm going to I'm I'm |
| 0:21.6 | I'm |
| 0:22.6 | I'm |
| 0:23.6 | I'm |
| 0:25.6 | I'm |
| 0:26.6 | I'm |
| 0:27.6 | I'm |
| 0:28.6 | I'm Welcome to Rosebud, you'll find Harriet, Jane and me in quite skittish form today. |
| 0:53.6 | We're celebrating. What are we celebrating, Harriet? |
| 0:56.8 | Our second birthday. Our second birthday. We launched Rosebud a couple of years ago around about the |
| 1:04.5 | first of September, 2023. I chose the first of September because it is the feast of St. Giles. Exactly. And I thought, |
| 1:13.0 | well, there we are. It's as close as I'm going to get to becoming a saint. And you have been a saint, |
| 1:18.9 | if I may say so, for the last two years. You have been wonderful. You have, people find this hard |
| 1:25.3 | to believe. It is genuinely just the two of us. I have a friend who |
| 1:29.2 | assists me called Becky, who has helped us get some of the guests. And she has helped also |
| 1:34.5 | when we've had some guests here at home, give them a bit of lunch after we've done the recording. |
| 1:40.4 | And you have had, I've also had, if I may say so, great model support from your husband Leon. |
| 1:45.4 | Yes. |
| 1:45.9 | So we've had family involvement, but essentially it's just been you. |
| 1:50.2 | You have edited, oh, hundreds of programmes. |
| 1:54.3 | It is hundreds. |
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