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#216 Rhik Samadder: Life Writing & Truth Telling

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest is Rhik Samadder: a writer, actor and broadcaster. He has a regular column with The Guardian and created their cult ‘Inspect a Gadget ’ feature. He has written for The Observer, Men’s Health and Prospect magazine, as well as being a guest, presenter and host on various radio shows. Rhik studied acting at Drama Centre London and appeared on HBO, BBC, ITV, Channel 4 (credits including Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Doctors) as well as a lead role with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In this episode we discuss his bestselling debut memoir I Never Said I Loved You which is out now. Please rate and review if you enjoyed it.

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So if you're interested, go to careers. Kingfisher.com today to find out more about their tech and digital roles.

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Thank you so much to King Fisher for sponsoring this podcast.

0:56.7

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-L-D Delete. Today's guest is with

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Rick Somada. He is a writer, actor and broadcaster. It's also someone I find really quite hilarious in his columns for The Guardian. and Twitter. So it was really lovely to meet him in person. He is also a trained actor and he has

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appeared on HBO, the BBC, ITB, Channel 4 and he has also played a lead role with the

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Royal Shakespeare Company. That's his official bio, but we talk about all sorts of different things in this interview, and mainly my questions do focus on his amazing best-selling debut memoir called I Never Said I Loved You, which is out now and it has had so many

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incredible reviews.

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It really is a beautiful book about mental health and Rick's writing is just incredible.

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I recommend it and I really hope you enjoyed this episode.

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We got a bit deep but we also had a laugh as well. So if you liked it please do leave a rating and I will

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see you next week. I always think of Ganna, always think of that yogurt.

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Dannen.

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Dannen.

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