Arsène Wenger

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564 appearances 8 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2016 last heard 24 May

Arsène Wenger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Desert Island Discs · Classic Desert Island Discs - Arsène Wenger · 24 May 2026 podcast

But you came out fresh.

You always felt, OK, I've confessed now.

God forgiven me.

I can start my life again.

I think the impact for me was that you're never completely happy because you never do well enough.

And the religion makes you feel always a bit guilty because the Catholic religion is like that.

But overall, the desire not to be scared to work.

At the early childhood, no, but later, yes, of course.

And my father was one of the guys who was incorporated by force by the Germans.

And as a French guy, because Germany invaded France, he did fight with the Germans on the Russian front, you know, and came back late, 45, with 52 kilos, and was one year between life and death.

But he never talked about it.

But in the bistro, you could listen to stories and...

Overall, we were encouraged, honestly, in our young age to hate Germans.

But finally, it created more curiosity for me.

And I wanted to know what were these guys who live on the other side of the Rhine.

And as soon as I could, I went to Germany and I discovered that there are people like you and me who just try to have a good life.

John Lennon, Imagine, because I think it's a great song and Beatles are like a good football player.

They make simple what looks very complicated, you know.

And it's as well part of my childhood because suddenly...

This was the modern music when I was a child.

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