Gyles Brandreth

Which is rather nice.

Anyway, this is More Rosebud, and welcome to it.

Cue the music, and notice, it's slightly different music on a Tuesday.

This is More Rosebud.

I'm Charles Brandreth.

And because it's More Rosebud, I have a companion with me.

She's with me every week, all the time, because she's the producer of Rosebud.

She's Harriet Jane.

But on a Tuesday, when we put out More Rosebud, though you may be listening to it any time you like, well, she steps in front of the microphone and she says a few words.

What are the few words you're going to say today, Harriet?

Because we are in New York City where we have spent some time recording Rosebuds with interesting people.

And I think today's guest is one of the most interesting.

He is a magazine editor.

But somebody, when I said, we've got Graydon Carter on, he's a magazine editor, they said, no, he isn't a magazine editor.

He is the magazine editor from the golden age of magazines.

He worked when he was young on Time magazine, on Life magazine, in an era that was then coming to an end, but an era when that's how people got their...

news in depth, their pictures in depth before, well, it was from a different era.

And he then became famously the editor of Vanity Fair, where he made it a very special magazine over a quarter of a century.

Did you ever read Vanity Fair when he was the editor?

Very good.