Gary O'Donoghue

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1,144 appearances 20 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 7 Sep

Gary O'Donoghue’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Desert Island Discs · Gary O'Donoghue, journalist · 14 Jun 2026 podcast

We do.

And he has rewritten the rules of politics.

He has the ability to, you know, shock day by day and does so.

And because he's the most powerful man in the world, we have to report that.

And that upsets a lot of people.

But he is the most powerful man in the world.

He has been elected.

So we have to sort of respect that mandate, even if it's hard at times to understand what he's trying to achieve.

And I'm one of those people that believes that if you don't know, if you're not sure, then say so.

You know, I've been on air and said, I don't know.

I'm not sure.

I don't really understand this.

And I think audiences do appreciate that.

What I'm trying to do the whole time when I'm broadcasting or writing, you know, I'm trying to give them not just an analysis or the news or whatever.

I'm trying to give them a bit of me because that's how you get them to trust you.

They feel they know you.

One of the things you have to do as someone who can't see, who's blind, is right from a very early age, actually, you have to learn to listen.

You sort of have to learn to understand other people's reactions because they react differently to you as a disabled person.

And you learn to put yourself inside their head a bit and know when that sort of thing is going on.

And so I think that means you're outside yourself, you know, quite a lot of the time.

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