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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Yes, I always loved the language and one of my friends at school, in fact, said you should listen to some Debussy.
And he played me this piece and I've never forgotten it and I always have it around and I listen to it regularly because it's a kind of reverie and it's a kind of...
It sort of transports you somewhere, and it's a piece called La fille aux cheveux de lin, which basically translates as The Girl with the Flaxen Hair.
Well, I was told at one point by someone that they didn't think a blind person could be a reporter and certainly not a television reporter.
No, no, that's before any of that.
I mean, fortunately, a couple of people at Westminster, the BBC's Westminster office, Bob Eggington and Richard Eyre, took a punt on me, to be honest, you know, gave me a chance.
Then I worked on the local radio desk at Westminster through the 1992 general election.
And then I got a job after that.
And so, ironically, all the people that I would have been, you know, were on these training courses were still on their training courses.
You were in work.
It was this sort of constant process of begging and borrowing time from colleagues, friends, family.
You know, I remember living with a girl and, you know, at night time, you know, going to bed and say, would you mind reading these cutting, these newspaper cuttings?
Like not the most.
Quite rightly.
She thought that was a bit much.
Yeah, the landscape has been transformed, but you're always going to be one step behind because the technology moves on and your special technology doesn't keep up as quickly.
Right.
Because, you know, the market is small and, you know.
innovation takes time and all that kind of thing.
But you rely on the flow of information.
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