Dame Siân Phillips
Dame Siân Phillips transports Gyles back to her childhood in Wales in the 1930s and 40s, where she grew up in a Welsh-speaking mining village, of which she paints a vivid picture. She describes hearin...
23 Jan 1h 21min
More Rosebud: The Winnie-the-Pooh special
Last Sunday, 18th January, was Winnie-the-Pooh Day. It was the birthday of its creator, the author A A Milne. And Winnie-the-Pooh, his most famous book, was first published 100 years ago, in January 1...
20 Jan 1h
David Baddiel
David Baddiel joins Gyles this week to tell his unconventional family story. David paints a vivid picture of his childhood home in Dollis Hill, north-west London, and of the unusual people in it: his ...
16 Jan 1h 5min
More Rosebud - Gyles's Diaries, episode 33
Another entertaining edition of Gyles's diaries for you, from 1972, in which: Gyles is upstaged by a man playing the spoons in Dorset, complains about some poor service in a restaurant, and has an ups...
13 Jan 53min
Dominic West
Dominic West, one of the talented British actors who has had success both at home and in Hollywood, is our guest today. His breakout role was in the cult U.S. gritty crime drama The Wire, in which he ...
9 Jan 1h 8min
More Rosebud - Dame Joanna Lumley at the Henley Literary Festival
It's More Rosebud, and this episode is a conversation that took place at the Henley Literary Festival in 2025 between Gyles and Dame Joanna Lumley, about her Book of Treasures, which had then just bee...
6 Jan 1h 7min
New Year Rosebud - Thelma Ruby, still a star at 100
We're starting 2026 with a remarkable person: an actress who is 100 years old, and still a bundle of enthusiasm, vibrancy and joy. It's Thelma Ruby, born in March 1925, and acting since the 1940s. In ...
2 Jan 1h 21min
More Rosebud - Gyles's Diary, episode 32
It's time for the very last Rosebud of 2025, and we're leaving you with another warm, wonderful and witty edition of Gyles's diaries. In this episode, Gyles starts off by tellling us about his recent ...
30 Dec 202544min
