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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That's the crucial thing.
How do you absorb what's being said, written, broadcast in a landscape that's kind of exploded in terms of outlets and media formats and
online and social media.
And as a sort of blind person, you can only really absorb things in a linear fashion.
You can't skim an article or skim through a timeline.
And I spend a lot of time in the evenings, in the early mornings, trying to sort of keep up, I suppose.
And that takes a certain amount out of you.
I'm pretty limited in what I can say about that, to be honest.
But what I will say is that it was a really difficult time, actually.
And it was a very hard decision.
And it didn't come out of the blue.
I'd spent a couple of years thinking.
knocking on doors quietly, trying to tell people that there was a, you know, I felt there was a systemic problem and that I wasn't being treated the same as other colleagues.
And it was heard but not understood.
And a point, a moment came where I felt I had to make a stand.
And it was hard because, you know, I loved what I did and I felt a genuine loyalty to the BBC, you know, I'd worked for by that 15 years, by that 15, 16 years by that time.
Mm-hmm.
But I thought it was important and I felt it was important not just for me but I thought it was important for those who come after too.
It is much more inclusive.
The one thing that really encourages me is that in the work I do day to day now, I'm dealing with people who have responsibility who are sort of a generation or two younger than me, you know, in their 30s, people controlling day to day the main news bulletins and things like that.
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