7. Peter Capaldi

Young Again

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Kirsty Young talks to the actor Peter Capaldi about what he’s learned from his life so far. Celebrated for iconic TV roles as Doctor Who and as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick Of It, Capaldi’s 40-year career also includes an Oscar in 1995 for work behind the camera. He reflects on his journey from a Glasgow tenement block, how he owes his career to a lot of luck and why early failures have made him a better actor.

If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them? In Young Again Kirsty takes her guests back to the pivotal moments in their lives. Reflecting on what they wish they’d known at the time, and what they’ve learned along the way, she discovers the honest – and surprising – advice they’d give their younger selves.

Producer: Laura Northedge Content Editor: Richard Hooper Executive Editor: Alice Feinstein Senior Technical Producer: Duncan Hannant Presenter: Kirsty Young

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0:38.3	Hi, I'm Kirsty Young and this is Young again, my podcast for BBC Radio 4.
0:47.4	What conversations would you have with your younger self? How do you reflect on the big decisions you've made?
0:54.4	What have you learned from your life so far?
0:57.7	In this edition of Young Again,
0:59.3	I'm talking to an actor and director
1:01.2	whose 40-year career is a piquant cocktail
1:04.9	of sweet success, an early Oscar,
1:07.8	and a few bitter reality checks,
1:10.3	along with some soaringly iconic roles.
1:13.7	His on-screen presence is very often dark and flinty and sweary, really very sweary.
1:20.3	In person, however, he's quick to laugh, mostly at himself, and says he's come to understand
1:25.7	that the things that work against you in some situations
1:28.3	will be the very characteristics that are your superpower in others.
1:33.3	He was talking about acting.
1:34.3	But on reflection, I wonder if that goes, well, for life in general.
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