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Desert Island Discs

Classic Desert Island Discs - Colm Toibin

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.413.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Kirsty Young interviews writer Colm Toibin in a programme first heard in 2016.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to introduce myself.

0:03.7

My name's Stevie Middleton and I'm a BBC Commissioner for a load of sport podcasts.

0:08.4

I'm lucky to do that at the BBC because I get to work with leading journalists, experienced

0:12.2

pundits and the biggest sports stars.

0:14.3

Together we bring you untold stories and fascinating insights straight from the player's mouths.

0:19.1

But the best thing about doing this at the BBC is our unique access to the sporting world.

0:24.8

What that means is that we can bring you podcasts that create a real connection to dedicated sports fans across the UK.

0:31.3

So if you like this podcast, head over to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more.

0:37.0

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:40.5

Lauren Levern here, we're taking our Easter break,

0:43.1

so until we're back on air,

0:44.3

we're showcasing a few programmes from our archive for you.

0:47.5

As usual, the music's been shortened for rights reasons.

0:51.2

This week's guest is the writer Calm to Bean.

0:56.2

Kirsty Young cast him away in January 2016. My castaway this week is the writer Kahn Tobin.

1:18.0

His novels, plays and short stories give voice to highly regarded works

1:21.8

dealing with identity, loss, notions of family, and the meaning of home.

1:26.8

These days, his own home is often Dublin,

1:29.0

on occasion New York, now and then Barcelona, and at times a little place near Enniskworthy,

1:34.2

the town in South East Ireland where he grew up, and where, aged just 12, he would begin to write

1:39.9

as a release from speech. One of five children, his father was a teacher at the local school.

1:45.7

His mother, a published poet.

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