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Hello, it's me, Lauren Levern, and this is Desert Island Discs postcards,

your handpicked selection of unforgettable moments from some of our favourite castaways.

Today's castaway is the Paralympian and TV presenter Adair Departan. In 2012, he told Kirsty Young about a fashion full par

from his first day at school.

Oh, good.

Give me everything on the pink shirt suit.

Do you know what?

Well, the day before my first day of school,

my mum, who's proper flamboyant,

she likes to dress quite wild and out there. She took me to Petticoat Lane Market in the East London and she decided to buy me a pink checkered suit with a bowtie and also I had, I can't remember what this shirts are called. It's like a, it was a shirt with like a frilly shirt. Oh, a dress shirt. Sort of Tom Jones number. Yeah.

And this is what I was going to wear to my school, Creedon School, Upton Park, proper East London School. What was she thinking? Exactly. I mean, I think maybe it was a good ploy buyer because it took my mind off my physical disability and put my mind on my fashion disability. Well, now here's the thing, because your other USP, of course, is that you're a little boy wearing calipers, which is enough to deal with. Yeah, yeah. And the calipers, you know, they were pretty blatant if you've ever seen Forrest Gump and you've seen those iron rods that he'd wore. I had these iron rods that would protrude out of the bottom of my trousers and they went into these big hospital boots. Yeah. Um, which just looked ugly as well. And, um, I, I just wanted to be cool. I wanted to look like the other kids and I wanted to,

you know, hang out with the other kids. And I remember going into, walking into the playground,

really nervous because I'm dressed like some crazy loon and I saw

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