Dame Elaine Paige

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864 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · Dame Elaine Paige · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

Yes.

And a silly hat.

And he sang a song called I'm Not All There.

Which was a comic song.

And I think this all came from his parents.

I mean, my grandparents on dad's side used to write monologues and so on and so forth for the Royal British Legion, you know, for the concert party during the war, I suppose.

So that was very much... So I think I've got this from him.

If I'm creative in any way, it's probably come from that side of the family.

Although, as I said, my mum did have a lovely singing voice.

Yes, and do you know what was wonderful, though, is that they lived to see it all.

And I was able to share it all with them.

And, of course, they were so proud.

I went to Ada Foster.

Well, yes, it was a children's school as well as a student's... I went on a student's drama course of three years.

But there was a school, an actual school attached to it.

And it was a bit of a shock when I got there because...

You know, at regular state school I was always the joker and, you know, out there doing it and having fun, socialising at school.

When I went to Ada Foster...

they were all, you know, would-be actors and rather confident young people, which I wasn't at all.

So it sort of had a... Were they boys as well as girls?

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