Gyles Brandreth

Coming to you live from London, this is Giles Bradruth with another episode of Rosebud.

Welcome to Rosebud.

Welcome to another episode of Rosebud.

And every week I say to you, this is a special episode of Rosebud.

And this one is another very special episode of Rosebud.

Oh, by the way, if we've not met before, my name is Giles Brandreth and I am the host of Rosebud, which is a podcast of which there are more, a hundred more earlier episodes.

So if you enjoy this one, feel free to go back and dip into our catalogue.

We really have had conversations about people's early memories with all sorts of folk.

Today, my special guest is somebody who I've admired ever since I first saw him on television.

I think I saw his very first appearance on TV when he popped up on a talent show called New Faces.

He was only 16 and he won that talent show.

This was the young Lenny Henry.

Then I got to know him as a very funny man.

on the Lenny Henry Show in the 1980s.

And later still, I came to admire him hugely as an actor.

I went to see him in Othello, and I've since, well, got to know him a bit.

We have occasionally worked together.

But today, we are going to be Rosebud on the Road.

We're travelling to London, to Hammersmith, to the Riverside Studios, which is a fascinating building that's seen cinema history,

back when it was built.