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

Isn't that amazing?

You know, you're not experiencing anything unique here.

This has been anatomized and categorized and analyzed.

And that was a lifting of a burden for me.

And I realised that, you know, at that point, you know, there was a roadmap.

You know, there were ways of dealing with this sort of stuff and that you didn't have to make it up yourself.

It's pretty much by chance, I think.

My dad, again, picked someone up in his cab, which I know always sounds like the start to a bad story.

But he picked up a... It was actually a blind chap called Kevin Mulhern who...

ran a production company making a programme for Central Television at the time called Link and it was a disability magazine programme.

He happened to pick him up and my dad had got talking to him and Kevin said to my dad, oh, why doesn't he come along and have a look at one of our shows go out?

And this was when I was like in the second year or something like that at university.

And so I went up to Birmingham and I looked at it and I kind of got a bit starstruck by this whole business.

And I liked the fact they were just having people on telling stories and talking about issues and things like that.

That was interesting.

And he put me in touch with a couple of other people and that meant that...

By the time I went on my year abroad to France, I sort of had some contacts and I started going down... I was meant to be going to the lectures at the Sorbonne, but I would go down to the BBC office in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and borrow their reel-to-reel viewer, tape recorder, and do little interviews and sneak back to London.

And this legendary producer from In Touch, Tina Heschel...

who, you know, I've got so much to thank for.

She took me under her wing and gave me an awful lot, as did Peter White, who has been the presenter of that programme forever.

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