Tom Allen
3/27/20261 hr 11 min
Our guest today is the comedian, author, actor and presenter Tom Allen. And this is a truly charming edition of Rosebud. Tom tells Gyles about his childhood in suburban Bromley and opens up about what it was like to be an eccentric child who refused to follow the crowd and liked dressing up as an emperor. Gyles and Tom bond over some mutual passions, including Noel Coward and stationery. And Tom talks about coming out and his first kiss.
Tom is currently in Titanique in the West End of London. His new novel, Common Decency, is out in May and is available to pre-order here.
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First 90 secondsTom Allen· Guest0:00
Howdy, howdy, ho, and welcome to Fantasy Fanfellas. I'm Hayden, producer of the Fantasy Fangirls podcast and your resident lover of all things Sanderson.
Steven0:08
And I'm Steven, your bookish internet goofball, but you can call me the Smash Daddy.
Tom Allen· Guest0:12
And we are currently deep diving Brandon Sanderson's fantasy epic, Mistborn. But here's the catch, Steven here has not read Mistborn before.
Steven0:20
That's right, Hayden. So each week, you'll get my unfiltered, raw reactions to every single chapter.
Tom Allen· Guest0:25
And along the way, we'll do character deep dives, magic explainers, and Steven will even try to guess what's next. Spoiler alert, he'll be wrong.
Steven0:32
Newsflash, I'm never wrong. Episodes come out every Wednesday, and you can find Fantasy Fanfellas wherever you get your podcasts. [upbeat music] [foreign language] Kroger. [foreign language] Kroger. [foreign language] Kroger, fresh for everyone.
Gyles Brandreth· Host1:09
[gentle music] Wherever you are in the world, whatever mood you got up in, however you're feeling right now, well, you can take an hour or so off from harsh reality and tune into somebody else's story. Welcome to another episode of Rosebud.
Unknown speaker1:26
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