Gary O'Donoghue

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

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

How would you describe it?

Sort of things like...

The stories they would read us were all kind of, you know, Jennings goes to school.

And we had houses that we were in, you know, and it was quite regimented.

And I mean, there was still corporal punishment.

You know, I got hit at one point.

And in those days, the sort of pastoral care in those sorts of schools was very much secondary to the academic stuff.

But there were good things about those early years as well.

I mean, you know, I learned to ski at that school.

You know, my parents scraped the money together to allow me to go on a skiing trip to Austria and Germany.

That was completely out of the realms of anything.

you sort of become a different person and you grow apart a bit.

I mean, from 11 years old onwards.

That was when I went to the hothouse of Worcester College, which was a massive grammar school for blind boys.

It was two lives, really.

I'd come back at the weekend or... OK, so they call that code-switching now, I think.

Mm-hm.

I went from the kind of Essex estuary to this place where everyone who'd come from different parts of the country and we all sounded the same at the end of the first year.

I think so.

I mean, I think, you know, they probably suffered quite a lot from the amount of time my parents had to spend together.

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