Gyles Brandreth
👤 SpeakerVoice Profile Active
This person's voice can be automatically recognized across podcast episodes using AI voice matching.
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
To Ottawa.
Ottawa, the capital city, because he was in government.
He joined the civil service by then.
And picture, I remember going to Ottawa in the 1960s.
And people then said it's like that being in the 1930s.
Is Ottawa today like being in the 1940s?
It seemed very conservative and very quiet compared with, say, Quebec or Toronto.
Who was your first friend outside the family?
And were you an easy child?
Likeable?
With lots of friends?
Not tons of friends, but enough friends.
And what sort of games would you be playing as a child?
What books would you be reading?
What music?
Do you remember the first one?
The first book that struck in your head as being special?
And what schools did you go to?
What age did that begin?
What age do you think, I want to be a writer?