Gyles Brandreth
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Three good friends of mine have died recently.
And I know.
You are still at the going to weddings stage, aren't you?
Do you ever go to christenings?
Do you ever go to... Maybe you're going to divorce showers.
People have these divorce parties now.
But you're not yet going regularly to funerals.
Whereas I've reached the stage and age where I am.
A man I knew well called Peter Ridsdale Scott died quite recently.
He was a television producer.
And with him in the 1980s, I did a whole series of shows, including all the ones I did with Hinge and Brackett.
He was just a nice guy.
And he brought out the best in people.
And he introduced me to a whole range of people in the world of variety and entertainment.
We did a series together called The Railway Carriage Game.
And he had me working with people like Ken Dodd, one of the great entertainers of my lifetime.
And fun people like John Inman.
Lovely people.
And so I loved him.
He was always good company.