VALENTINE'S SPECIAL: Clare Balding and Alice Arnold

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

It's Valentine's week, and we're celebrating with our first ever Rosebud couple: Clare Balding and Alice Arnold. This is a truly romantic and life-affirming episode. You may have seen Clare and Alice on Celebrity Gogglebox, you'll certainly know Clare from her many appearances anchoring major sporting events, from the Olympics to Crufts, and Alice was for a long time the voice of the news on Radio 4's Today programme. Gyles talks to Clare and Alice about their first memories, but also about how they met, what they love about each other and the secrets to a long and happy marriage. Sit back, relax, and feel the love! 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?
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0:29.4	Hello I'm Giles Brandreuth and this is Rosebud. This is the week that sees Valentine's Day, and in celebration, I'm interviewing our first
1:02.6	Rosebud couple. It's Claire Balding and her wife, Alice Arnold. Yes, Alice Arnold and her wife,
1:10.0	Claire Boulding. There are today's Rosebud guests.
1:13.2	Claire, of course, one of the UK's actually most trusted, as well as love TV presenters.
1:18.1	I think she's presented at seven Olympic Games going to Paris this summer. Also, of course,
1:23.2	the Paralympics, Commonwealth Games, Winter Olympics, and Crofts, I love a dog. The boat race,
1:30.1	trooping the colour, you name it. So I know Claire. And I also know Alice, because Alice started
1:35.9	her career as an actress. Then she became a newsreader and a continuity announcer on Radio
1:40.9	4. She was there for more than 20 years. That's when I first met her, and she was
1:44.8	presenting the news on the Today program. And so I've asked them over to my house in West London,
1:51.1	and talking to them together, a slightly different kind of chat, because as well as going back to
1:55.9	their first memories, I'm also going to be talking about how Claire and Alice first met
2:00.7	about their relationship now, and why it worked so well.
2:04.7	So for Valentine's Day, this is a properly romantic, life-affirming episode.
2:11.6	Sit back, enjoy and feel the love.
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