Adil Ray

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

As the younger son, Adil Ray was given more freedom to pursue his creative instincts than his older, more academic sibling. Before moving into the mainstream, Adil spent his student days in an elderly Jamaican woman’s loft hosting a pirate radio show. He now appears on millions of television sets across the country presenting ITV’s Good Morning Britain, hosting the revival of game show Lingo, and is the creator and star of sitcom, Citizen Khan.

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0:00.0	This is a global original podcast.
0:07.4	Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project conceived chief fleet who let me spend more time than is available on the radio with people I find interesting, which is a fairly neat introduction to Adil Ray, who you will know, well, how will people know you?
0:20.2	So actor, to start, raconteur, bon vivor.
0:24.5	Actor, writer, journalist, presenter.
0:28.3	I'm not trained journalist.
0:30.0	Well, I don't mind. It's all right.
0:31.2	It's a living.
0:32.9	Game show host.
0:33.8	Game show host.
0:34.7	But all you wanted to be when you were 10 was a radio presenter.
0:37.7	That's right.
0:38.5	So where did it all go wrong?
0:41.9	Yeah, I don't know.
0:42.9	I mean, that was my dream.
0:43.8	That was it.
0:44.3	I was 10 years old.
0:45.1	And I remember listening to people on the radio in Birmingham.
0:49.4	I lived, I thought, God, I know, I'd like to do that.
0:51.7	And when I found out they got paid to do it, I thought, what?
0:56.7	Yeah, but I've been lucky.
0:58.6	Well, yes, you have been lucky.
1:01.5	It's always important to acknowledge that, but you're obviously also very driven.
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