Charles Spencer
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Charles Spencer

This week's guest is Charles Spencer: the writer, broadcaster, and heir to the Spencer family title and estate at Althorp, where his sister, Diana, is buried.

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Sir David Hare
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Sir David Hare

Sir David Hare is one of the UK's most prolific and successful playwrights, and in this episode he talks to Gyles first about theatre, about great actors, and about the sensitivity necessary to writing drama; he also talks about his unusual childhood.

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Ben Elton
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Ben Elton

Ben Elton was instrumental in the transformation of British comedy that took place in the 1980s. His scripts for The Young Ones and Blackadder were fresh, anarchic, rude, clever and hilarious.

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Gyles's Diary, Episode 26
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Gyles's Diary, Episode 26

We've got a very special guest joining Gyles and Harriet in this episode of the diaries - and this is a really fun edition of the podcast as a result. Stay tuned to find out who it is...

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Lee Child
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Lee Child

We're excited to present the multi-million selling author and creator of Jack Reacher, Lee Child, as our guest today.

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Lee Lawrence
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Lee Lawrence

A moving and important true story is the subject of More Rosebud today, featuring the writer and social justice campaigner Lee Lawrence.

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Sir John Major
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Sir John Major

Sir John Major, British Prime Minister from 1992 - 1997, is our guest today. In this deeply interesting, personal and touching conversation, Sir John talks to Gyles about his childhood in South London and about his unusual and inspiring family.

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Gyles's Diary, Episode 25
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Gyles's Diary, Episode 25

Join us for the further adventures of the young Gyles Brandreth, as he continues his impressive career at Oxford - in this episode Gyles finally has the success he's been hoping for in the Union elections - but finds it strangely unsatisfying.

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Jung Chang
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Jung Chang

We're honoured to have Jung Chang, the celebrated author of the international bestseller Wild Swans, as our Rosebud guest today - and her story will astonish you.

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Alan Davies
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Alan Davies

You might notice that this episode of Rosebud is slightly longer than usual - and that's because this story is so powerful. This conversation with the stand-up, writer, actor and TV star Alan Davies is virtually unedited - because it's unmissable.

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Gyles's Diary, Episode 24
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Gyles's Diary, Episode 24

Yes, we know it's secretly your favourite part of Rosebud... it's Gyles's diary! And we know we say this every time, but it's another corker. Gyles does something unspeakable on Edward Heath's shoes.

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Dame Judi Dench Returns
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Dame Judi Dench Returns

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.

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Dame Eileen Atkins
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Dame Eileen Atkins

To end our second year of Rosebud, we have one of our most charming, talented and brilliant theatrical dames: Dame Eileen Atkins.

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Gyles's Diary, Episode 23
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Gyles's Diary, Episode 23

Gyles is back at Oxford after the summer... with a bang, of course. His long-awaited pantomime, Cinderella, opens at the Playhouse, with Sir Michael Redgrave reading the Prologue (and getting stage fright in the wings before the show).

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Melvyn Bragg
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Melvyn Bragg

We have a broadcasting legend for you today on Rosebud, as Gyles interviews the creator and host of In Our Time and The South Bank Show, Melvyn Bragg, Lord Bragg of Wigton.

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Lord Ivar Mountbatten
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Lord Ivar Mountbatten

Our guest today is Lord Ivar Mountbatten, a great-great-great grandson of Queen Victoria, cousin of Prince Phillip, descendant of Russian Tsars and of Pushkin, and the second son of David, the late Marquess of Milford Haven, who was Prince Philip's best man at his wedding to Princess Elizabeth in 1947.

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