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

And they just don't have those responsibilities.

deep, inbuilt sort of issues about disability that people of my generation sometimes do.

You know, my daughter's generation, their attitude to difference, they're not thrown by it.

OK, so I said I hated disco, didn't I?

So I'm making an exception for this song and I've chosen this for two reasons.

One, because it takes me back to those early working days in the 90s where we would work late till six at Westminster and then we'd go out to Soho till one in the morning and then get up and be back in for eight again.

But there was a club we used to go to particularly, I think on a Friday night, I don't know if the night or the club was called Car Wash.

And we used to go there ironically, obviously, to dance to... That's what they all sing.

I know, disco music.

But later, when my daughter Lucy was born, when she was very little, this was one of the songs I would put on in the car and turn it up really, really loud and sing to...

maximum extent of our voices and annoy lucy's mother incredibly um and i just it has a has a lot of joy about it so it's um car wash by rose royce you might not ever get rich let me tell you it's better than digging a ditch

There was a team of us.

It wasn't just me and all that.

You know, my producer, Iona, my cameraman, Sam, you know, it was a joint effort.

But I didn't know this, but he was holding a can of beer.

He had this weird orange kind of a headpiece on, I suppose.

He'd had that clearly wasn't his first can of beer.

It was striking, I think.

So Iona found this guy who said he'd seen the shooter and tried to warn the Secret Service.

It was a risk putting him on live.

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