Gary O'Donoghue

speaker

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.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 14 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 3.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

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

But there are times when it's a strain.

And, you know, I'm certainly not in a hardship posting or anything like that.

But, you know, being away is difficult.

And there are times where, you know, you wish you weren't just there in your own... Much as I like my own company, there are times you wish you weren't just there in your own head or, you know, cooking for one is boring.

I've obviously not been around as much as I would have loved to have been for Lucy growing up, not least because even when I was in the UK, I was working in London all week and things like that.

So I think that there's been a bit of a price for that for her particularly.

But we're very close.

What am I proud of?

I'm proud of kind of staying the course, actually.

Because if you're a blind, I mean, 70% of blind people of working age are out of work, don't have a job.

And so like every day of my life, I still believe, despite your one's experience and whatever, if I lost my job tomorrow, I probably wouldn't be able to get another one.

I do genuinely believe that.

And so staying the course and being one of the lucky ones is something I'm proud of, not having given up.

You know, when I became a political correspondent, you know, my dad, as I say, who didn't have a formal education, but, you know, was fascinated by politics, constantly writing letters to government departments.

He was just so pleased about that.

And he wasn't around when I became the Washington correspondent.

And I know he loved it.

Again, she was just quietly proud of it.

She came out to Washington.

But it was just after the Trump... She died the next month after the Trump assassination attempt.

Showing 741–760 of 1,144 · page 38 of 58