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Tom Holland
Tom Holland, co-host of The Rest Is History, is Gyles's guest this week. And, fittingly, this episode is full of history - Augustus, Napoleon III, Bram Stoker, Byron, Jesus and Cecil Beaton all get a…
Published on 1 year ago
More Rosebud... Gyles's diary, episode 5: the second half of 1961 - Gyles's first term at Bedales.
Another foray into Gyles's schoolboy diaries today, and this time it's the second half of 1961. In this chapter we find out what happens when Gyles starts at his new secondary school, Bedales, a pion…
Published on 1 year ago
Boris Johnson
This week Boris Johnson is on the Rosebud couch, and Gyles tries to get him off the usual political topics and instead talking about where it all began. We find out about Boris's early years, spent f…
Published on 1 year ago
More Rosebud... Gyles's talk at the Henley Literary Festival
Today's Rosebud is an enormously entertaining talk given by Gyles at the Henley Literary Festival. Ostensibly about Gyles's books - Prose and Cons, a History of the English Language in Just a Minute,…
Published on 1 year ago
Sir Matthew Bourne
Sir Matthew Bourne's reimaginings of classic works like Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Carmen have become legendary, and have transformed our ideas of what dance, and what theatre, are capable of. In …
Published on 1 year ago
More Rosebud... Gyles's diary, episode 4: the first half of 1961 - Gyles's last two terms at prep school.
Another treat for you today, as Gyles carries on reading from his childhood diaries and discusses things with Harriet. In this chapter we join Gyles as he prepares to leave his prep school, Betteshan…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Michael Ball and Alfie Boe
This week we welcome the singers Michael Ball and Alfie Boe. Ball and Boe have been singing together for ten years, and are about to release their sixth album, but in this conversation Gyles takes th…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
More... Elizabeth McGovern
Today on More Rosebud Gyles talks to the American actress, singer-songwriter and star of Downton Abbey Elizabeth McGovern. In this conversation they talk about Elizabeth's childhood in a Bohemian and…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Prue Leith
This week we welcome the restaurateur, entrepreneur, cook, writer and judge of Great British Bake Off Prue Leith onto Rosebud. Prue tells Gyles about her childhood, growing up under apartheid in Sout…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
More Rosebud... Gyles's diary, episode 3: The second half of 1960 - Gyles goes on summer holidays to Germany and France
Exciting news: it's time for the next instalment of Gyles's schoolboy diaries. In this episode, the young GB goes on his holidays, to Germany and then, unaccompanied, to Paris. We also hear about his…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago