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

And so we shared this house.

And was that happy?

Was it nice to have your grandparents there?

Perfectly fine.

It was lovely.

I would come home from school and Nana would be upstairs and a cup of tea and a piece of cake.

Marvellous.

And, you know, and I would and Grandad and we'd sit and chatter.

you know and in a way they were they because my both my parents were working still then and my mother well before we left bonnet she worked part-time in a uh hat shop across the road from where we lived and so again when i left school you know when i was leaving school at the end of the day i wouldn't go home to the masonette to the flat i would go straight to the hat shop and

And there was a storage unit upstairs, storage room upstairs with all the boxes, these great big sort of cardboard boxes with all these different hats.

And I would spend hours messing around with these hats, trying various hats on.

Oh, well... Dolls?

Yes, doll.

I had a doll called Pamela.

And it was quite a tall doll.

And I used to... We had a front room, which we never used.

It was, again, kept for best.

And...

And I used to go in there and fantasise and make up these stories and pretend I was the mother of this child.

And I don't know, be standing at a bus stop talking to other parents or something or waiting for the school to finish.

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